Samsung has shown off a prototype of a new folding display, and it seems very likely that this is the one that will be used for the iPhone Fold.
Apple had reportedly waited until the company was able to produce a display without a visible crease, and this one looks to fit the bill perfectly. The crease looks completely invisible in a photo and almost so in a video …
Apple’s quest for a creaseless display
Even for a company with Apple’s reputation of letting other companies launch first before it later follows with what it believes to be the best version, the wait for a folding iPhone has been a very lengthy one. Depending on exactly when Apple launches the iPhone Fold, it will be six or seven years after the first folding Android smartphone.
One of the key reasons for that very long wait is that Apple reportedly rejected the idea of a visible crease in the center of the unfolded display. It tasked its display partner Samsung with creating a panel without a noticeable crease – something the Korean company had not yet achieved with its own folding phones.
Samsung reportedly achieved this to Apple’s satisfaction last year, and we later learned that this had been a sufficiently challenging task that the Cupertino company had to get its own design engineers involved.
This is likely the iPhone Fold display
The Verge reports that Samsung Display showed off a new folding screen at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and said that there was no visible crease.
A photo displayed by the company, shown at the top of the piece, looks extremely impressive. Even studying the full-size photo very closely, I can’t see any sign of a crease. Indeed, if I hadn’t known it was a folding display, I would never have guessed.
Another photo shows the Galaxy Z Fold 7 display on the left, with a visible crease down the centre, and the prototype display on the right. The difference between the two is night and day.
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