LG just published a press release saying that they’re going to demo a 5 inch “unbreakable” OLED display at Display Week later this month. They didn’t say anything about the screen’s resolution however, so don’t be disappointed if it’s 720p or even less.
How did LG manage to make an “unbreakable” display? Most if not all of the screens currently on the market today use glass as a substrate. That’s a fancy way of saying all those pretty pixels and etched onto a piece of glass. We all know that glass breaks, so why not switch the substrate material to plastic? That’s all that’s being done here. Does this mean we’re going to see an unbreakable screen show up in a smartphone this year? LG says yes, but my gut says no. LG has, for as long as I can remember, been the “first” to announce a new technology, but then they fail to deliver it on time. It happened with the dual core G2X, the quad core, Optimus 4X HD, and it’ll likely happen with this new screen. I’m not saying LG isn’t talented, because that would be a lie. Apple uses their panels for a reason. But it’s one thing to demo a prototype and another thing altogether to build a factory that can spit out hundreds of thousands of screens.
