| With every new flagship launch, we see smartphone makers bring larger displays, more advanced biometric security features, enhanced camera capabilities or AR and VR capabilities. But the next big thing in the smartphone market is sure to be a bendable smartphone. |
With every new flagship launch, we see smartphone makers bring larger displays, more advanced biometric security features, enhanced camera features or AR/VR capabilities. But the next big thing in the smartphone market is sure to be a bendable smartphone. Samsung is believed to have already started working on such a smartphone, while companies like LG and even OPPO are exploring flexible displays that could shrink the device in half. Samsung will likely launch a foldable smartphone in 2019, as some technical issues still need to be ironed out.
The Samsung Galaxy X will reportedly fold in half and feature a flexible OLED display, but scientists at the University of Exeter have created a new material that gives smartphone makers more flexibility, Included in design. For a truly flexible smartphone, the internal components will also be flexible, not just the display. A new memory system made from graphene could replace flash memory chips currently used in smartphones and other types of devices.
This new type of hybrid graphene-titanium oxide memory only needs 5ns to write and read data. It's also just 50nm long and 8nm thick, giving smartphone makers plenty of leeway when it comes to the design and functionality of new devices. In addition to being the lightest and strongest compound in the world, graphene is also the thinnest, just one atom thick. Carbon-based materials are also the best conductors of electricity, which would make them suitable for placement in devices such as smartphones.
A disadvantage of this material is the complex production process. According to reports, Samsung is said to have invested in research on graphene, and the company has even filed some patent applications. At this point, it's hard to say whether memory cells made of graphene would make it a flexible smartphone, but material-wise, graphene is certainly the way to go.
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