According to the economic voice "World Finance", Huawei, Samsung and other mobile phone manufacturers revealed that it will launch a foldable screen mobile phone. Domestic display screen supplier BOE revealed that the flexible screen production line is progressing well, but the emergence of folding mobile phones still needs the whole industry chain.
Major manufacturers grabbed folding mobile phones
The phone is foldable, bendable, and even turned into a wristband on the wrist. People's expectation of folding mobile phones is becoming a reality. Samsung announced last week that it is developing a foldable screen phone, and hinted that 'will not let everyone wait too much. For a long time; Apple is also considering equipped with a foldable flexible screen for the iPhone; Huawei has also said that it will cooperate with BOE, and will launch a foldable screen mobile phone by the end of this year.
According to the analysis, nowadays, the foldable screen is a full-screen, mobile phone manufacturers' power on the screen technology. Zhang Yu, senior vice president of BOE Group, said that in the future, folding mobile phones may bring revolutionary changes. 'Laptop, Mobile phones, tablets may be one of the three, and only one mobile phone when traveling. '
It can be said, whoever launches the folding screen mobile phone first, who is likely to take the lead in the market. The latest data from the market research organization IDC shows that in the second quarter of this year, Samsung, Huawei and Apple ranked in the global smartphone shipments respectively. Three. This also allowed several mobile phone manufacturers to compete for the first 'eat crab'.
Flexible screen is expected to be full at the beginning of next year, but the mass production of mobile phones is not difficult.
For folding mobile phones, the screen is the biggest factor restricting the folding of mobile phones. Zhang Yu revealed that the company's flexible screen production line is progressing well and is expected to be full in early next year. The implication is that in the production of folding mobile phones, the screen is already in place. ' .
Due to trade secrets, Zhang Yu did not disclose information about the cooperation vendors, and even the shipment of flexible screens was kept secret. However, he also said that the difficulty of mass production of folding mobile phones is not small: 'If it is just a fold, it is easier. The battery can also be installed on one side of the mobile phone. If it is completely soft, then it is not just a screen problem, the entire industry chain needs to cooperate.
BOE expands its business from B to C
Display is everywhere, the screen is considered to be one of the foundations of the Internet of Things. In addition to the screen of the mobile phone, BOE also launched a digital art Internet of Things solution that restores oil painting and photo quality as much as possible - BOE screen, for unmanned supermarkets. Real-time display of commodity price changes and inventory of electronic tags, as well as non-invasive blood monitoring, non-invasive blood glucose monitoring and other smart health port devices.
Zhang Yu said that in the future, BOE will carry out business in three core businesses, including display and sensor parts, smart systems, and health services, from hardware expansion to system software, from B-end to consumer-oriented C-end.
He said that the display screen will become a port in the era of the Internet of Things, human-computer interaction, human interaction, and even the interaction between machines and machines. The display screen is an end product that can't be avoided, just for the object or for the person, according to The market needs, the scalability of this technology can be done.