Mobile phone welcomes OLED era Samsung flagship machine or will fully adopt curved screen
Samsung's curved screen smartphones are popular, and the Galaxy Note 7 discards the general flat screen and pushes the curved screen. Samsung executives hinted that the Galaxy S series flagship machine may be completely changed to a curved display in the future, and the traditional screen is awkward.
Business Korea and South Korea Herald reported that Koh Dong-jin, head of Samsung's mobile division, said in a New York interview that Samsung can consider making curved screens a Galaxy if it can be distinguished by software features and convenience. The characteristics of the S series. The implication is that the Galaxy S series may not push the flat screen model anymore, and will use the curved screen instead.
In 2015, the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge was the first hyperbolic screen model, but at the time the hyperbolic screen yield was poor and sales were deserted. Now that Samsung has successfully overcome the yield problem, it is expected that it will buy according to Note 7 and decide whether the S8 that will come out next year will only push the curved screen.
Some media pointed out that the Note 7 full-surface curved screen represents the take-off of the OLED panel market. In the past, LCD monitors have been the mainstream of smart phones, but recently OLEDs have become a trend. Chinese manufacturers Oppo and Vivo have released OLED smartphones. It is said that next year, new iPhones will also be equipped with OLED panels. This trend is also seen from the violent shipments of Samsung Display from Samsung Electronics' panel factory.
According to IHS data, Samsung Display's smartphone OLED panel shipments reached 98.38 million in the second quarter of this year, an annual growth rate of 81.5%. Samsung Display is the absolute dominant player in global smartphone OLED panels with a market share of 99%.
The Chinese factory, BOE, took the lead and squeezed the second place in the Japanese factory. The third place is the Japanese factory Japan Display Inc. (JDI). The fourth place is the Chinese factory Tianma. Korean factory LG Display fell from the third place all the way to the fifth