Samsung shows off latest, biggest, bendiest AMOLED prototype

Today the flexible OLED is still a very rare thing, usually confined to dark corners of exhibitors booths at trade shows or grainy photos from some research facility. Sadly that doesn't look to change anytime in the immediate future, but Samsung is at least still making progress with the tech, demonstrating a new 6.5-inch flexible prototype at SID 2009 in San Antonio. It's bigger than the earlier examples we've seen from the company, and apparently a little bendier too, but beyond those juicy facts -- and knowing that it can display scenes from The Sound of Music -- we don't know a thing about it.

[DRHouse Posted May 27th 2009 8:37AM]

OMG give us this Technology with E-books and make it feel like a real book

[tylersmyler Posted May 27th 2009 11:36AM]

Like a book with one page?

A piece of paper?

[(Unverified) Posted May 27th 2009 1:51PM]

Unless they really want to strain their eyes, most hardcore readers do not want to read anything of significant size using any technology that creates it's own light or requires a backlight (like LCD or OLED). I don't care how amazing the picture looks, E-ink is the way to go for reading devices. They require no power to maintain an image (only to change the image) and require no backlight or other internal lighting source. E-ink looks just like real paper.

[NickNick Posted May 27th 2009 8:38AM]

will it blend

[NickNick Posted May 27th 2009 8:39AM]

will it bend

[NickNick Posted May 27th 2009 8:39AM]

will it belend

[TomTom2010 Posted May 27th 2009 9:13AM]

Too much coffee for you this morning, Nick.

[(Unverified) Posted May 27th 2009 8:39AM]

give me an amoled newspaper to read in train

[(Unverified) Posted May 27th 2009 8:45AM]

The hills are alive with sexy tech :P

[(Unverified) Posted May 27th 2009 8:51AM]

I cant wait until they put them on breakfast cereal boxes like in the Minority Report :)

[(Unverified) Posted May 27th 2009 9:17AM]

Absolutely DELICIOUS! Screw ebook, give us other things instead. Walls that are display screens. Art that changes with our mood. Ceilings that emit ambient light based on the seasons. Yeah, I will take that.

[(Unverified) Posted May 27th 2009 9:23AM]

That IS bendy!

[(Unverified) Posted May 27th 2009 9:57AM]

But can it B(L)END!

[Javindo Posted May 27th 2009 10:03AM]

Haha how many more letters are they gunna add to LED before they move onto the next piece of light technology :P

[(Unverified) Posted May 27th 2009 11:10AM]

WSXGA+ AMOLED

Oh, lets just confuse the consumers while were at it.

[(Unverified) Posted May 27th 2009 10:57AM]

Samsung shows OFF...

[(Unverified) Posted May 27th 2009 6:51PM]

lets hope the competition doesnt BEND under the pressure.

[(Unverified) Posted May 27th 2009 11:25AM]

Great. I've always wanted to watch "The Sound of Music" on a cylindrical screen.

[(Unverified) Posted May 27th 2009 12:24PM]

Call me when I can wear a shirt that forces everyone around me to watch the Last Starfighter.

[(Unverified) Posted May 27th 2009 1:47PM]

Get ready for the coolest soda cans EVER!

[Wwhat Posted May 27th 2009 3:55PM]

Women could have nice cylinder shaped elongated digital MP4 players, that for reasons unexplained also vibrate, just to watch the sound of music on of course.

[Wwhat Posted May 27th 2009 3:58PM]

Perhaps a bulk discount to nunneries? It's about nuns you know, the sound of music.

[(Unverified) Posted May 27th 2009 6:53PM]

i bet you already have a personal prototype made.

[Wwhat Posted May 27th 2009 8:16PM]

No need, they are on sale already in japan (I bet)

[monkeyontherun4 Posted May 28th 2009 3:43AM]

bendy!

[(Unverified) Posted May 28th 2009 2:44PM]

I am so bored of prototypes!