Samsung is currently at the final stages of development on its flexible, plastic, smart phone displays reported The Wall Street Journal. The company plans to start producing the screens for commercial release during early 2013.
The South Korean company first unveiled the technology through a video in December 2011 and expected the screens to hit the market later this year. The video showed the AMOLED screens being folded and bent from side to side as people were video chatting and reading books on it. The company hopes that the displays will hopefully make phones unbreakable.
The screens use a special technology to emit images as they are thin and can be put on flexible displays. Also, by using plastic instead of Glass, Samsung could create phones that are not only durable, but much lighter.
However, it should be noted that Samsung is not the only player who is hoping to take the market by storm with this new technology. Apple filed a patent for a similar technology and publicized it in August this year, according to Tech Radar. Sony and LG are working similar technology as well, but Samsung wants to be the first one to get the screens into stores.
No one is sure as to how exactly the technology will be implemented, but users and pundits can rest assure that this technology will revolutionize the industry forever.