Who will give the world its first bendy phone

The battle for the bendy phone is on, and this year seems to be the year when the first bendy phone could be introduced in the market.

In the fight for flexible phones (we might also call them flexible OLED display phones) we have Samsung and LG in a stiff competition. For good, Apple has also joined this fight now.

In January this year, Samsung showed prototypes of two 4.99-inch flexible screen Yuom display phones. This was in a private demo during the keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2013, when Brian Klug of AnandTech captured few pics of this prototype phone. (Read more here. For pics of this phone go to the next page) We did not see the display coming in Galaxy S4. The upcoming Galaxy S5 will not be a flexible phone either, and will be a metallic and bar shaped normal phone like the Galaxy S4. The company seems to be struggling with the technology currently.

LG the Korean company is in a neck-to-neck competition with Samsung on this front. At the CES 2013 LG was to showcase flexible display (curved display) televisions. The company was to give the World its first curved OLED TV, but Samsung stole the limelight and became the first to announce a curved TV with a prototype of 55-inch OLED TV at the event, by “mere hours”. (read here) However, LG became the first in selling these TV’s to the public (starting at Rs. 7 lakh, read here) while Samsung still is dealing with mass production of flexible OLEDs.

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