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Samsung Providing Foldable Displays to Google, Apple, vivo, Xiaomi and OPPO
Korean sources indicated that SDC will be providing foldable displays smartphones from Xiaomi, vivo and Google in addition to the expected August announcement from Samsung itself. The Xiaomi device is expected to have a secondary screen produced by ChinaStar while vivo will use an external display from BOE. OPPO’s foldable has been pushed to 2022 but will also use SDC’s displays despite collaboration with BOE and Visionox. Apple is expected to release a foldable in 2023. SDC has managed to supplant a number of prototypes that these smartphone brands have shown in the past, with primary foldable displays from Chinese panel producers. SDC remains the only panel maker able to produce the volume and quality to satisfy both its parent and new customers. The folding smartphone market is set to expand later this year with news of Samsung Display securing production contracts for folding panels from Google, vivo, and Xiaomi.
Google has ordered a 7.6-inch folding OLED panel from Samsung, which is expected to be used in the "Pixel Fold" smartphone. Google will apparently reveal its first folding phone at some point in the fourth quarter this year, but it's unclear when it will go on sale. Samsung intends to start production of the required panel in October.
Google has been working on folding devices for a number of years and actually filed a patent for a foldable display back in 2018. Then in 2019, Pixel phone lead developer Mario Queiroz told CNET the company was experimenting with foldable phones. However, it seems Google decided to work with a company already producing folding displays for its first foldable phone rather than go it alone, but Samsung could be using Google's patented design for this 7.6-inch panel. Samsung is also expected to produce an 8-inch main display for vivo's folding phone starting in October, which will also have a 6.5-inch outer display provided by BOE. A similar deal has been struck with Xiaomi, with Samsung providing the main folding display for the company's follow-up to the Mi Max Fold, which launched back in April.
Korean sources indicated that SDC will be providing foldable displays smartphones from Xiaomi, vivo and Google in addition to the expected August announcement from Samsung itself. The Xiaomi device is expected to have a secondary screen produced by ChinaStar while vivo will use an external display from BOE. OPPO’s foldable has been pushed to 2022 but will also use SDC’s displays despite collaboration with BOE and Visionox. Apple is expected to release a foldable in 2023. SDC has managed to supplant a number of prototypes that these smartphone brands have shown in the past, with primary foldable displays from Chinese panel producers. SDC remains the only panel maker able to produce the volume and quality to satisfy both its parent and new customers. The folding smartphone market is set to expand later this year with news of Samsung Display securing production contracts for folding panels from Google, vivo, and Xiaomi.
Google has ordered a 7.6-inch folding OLED panel from Samsung, which is expected to be used in the "Pixel Fold" smartphone. Google will apparently reveal its first folding phone at some point in the fourth quarter this year, but it's unclear when it will go on sale. Samsung intends to start production of the required panel in October.
Google has been working on folding devices for a number of years and actually filed a patent for a foldable display back in 2018. Then in 2019, Pixel phone lead developer Mario Queiroz told CNET the company was experimenting with foldable phones. However, it seems Google decided to work with a company already producing folding displays for its first foldable phone rather than go it alone, but Samsung could be using Google's patented design for this 7.6-inch panel. Samsung is also expected to produce an 8-inch main display for vivo's folding phone starting in October, which will also have a 6.5-inch outer display provided by BOE. A similar deal has been struck with Xiaomi, with Samsung providing the main folding display for the company's follow-up to the Mi Max Fold, which launched back in April.
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