What we had known until now as a simple prototype is about to become a reality. The rollable OLED screens from LG were presented in the past CES in 65-inch format, a tremendously exclusive model that seemed to have enough left until it could be a commercial product. But everything indicates that it will be this coming year when we can see it in stores, since according to what they say in Bloomberg, the product will finally start selling in 2019.
A screen of the future
The demos we were able to see earlier this year showed a panel that was hidden as if by magic. The system, hidden in a kind of drawer, was in charge of collecting the screen as if it were a blind, being able to leave part of it in sight to change the format and present information panels as an intelligent screen. The idea is very interesting, and taking into account the folding panel technology that it hides, we are talking about a new generation of televisions that could mark the format of the future.
the folding year
But if there is something that 2019 will be characterized by in the world of technology, it is the incursion of folding phones. With a panel technology similar to that of this television LG OLED TVs, folding phones aim to change the way we use one of the key devices in our day to day, the mobile phone. The advantages of being able to change the form factor of the device open up a tremendous range of possibilities that begins with being able to have two devices in one (tablet and phone), something that many users have wanted since the appearance of phablets.
The fact that this roll-up television arrives at the same time as the telephones is still excellent news that demonstrates the excellent state of consumer electronics, although we will have to see how both technologies coexist in the market and if they will not represent an excess of technology User foldable OLED.
TV or phone?
But among so much information there are still some doubts about what exactly LG will bring to the stage of its next CES presentation. If, on the one hand, sources close to the company have confirmed to Bloomberg that the brand will carry a rollable OLED TV, Engadget and Evan Blass assure that what it will actually present is a foldable phone. Be that as it may, LG has prepared a great launch, so in a few weeks we will leave doubts.