Samsung is working on a new OLED panel technology that could obviate the need for display cutouts, according to a tweet shared by noted Samsung leaker Ice Universe.
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On October 18th, Samsung Display invited about 20 customers to hold the "2018 Samsung OLED Forum" at the Shenzhen Marriott Hotel in China. At the meeting, Samsung showed a PPT pic.twitter.com/sYu0ORTd6V— ICE UNIVERSE (@UniverseIce) October 19, 2018
Ice Universe, or one of his sources, attended the 2018 Samsung OLED Forum in Shenzhen, China.
At the event, Samsung’s display subsidiary shared a presentation slide that showed some of the OLED technologies it’s developing. One of those technologies, ‘UPS,’ short for “Under Panel Sensor,” will allow the firm to hide a smartphone’s front-facing camera underneath its display panel. In effect, this will allow Samsung, and any manufacturer that buys the company’s OLED panels, to create a truly bezel-less device sans notch.
Samsung also revealed it’s working on integrating haptics and sound into a smartphone-sized OLED panel as well.
Obviously, all of these are exciting developments, but it’ll likely be at least a year or two before we see Samsung’s new OLED panels make their way into consumer devices.
Source: Ice Universe
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