Are you surprised with the Samsung Galaxy Fold or Huawei Mate X? Then you need to have a look at the new Sharp clamshell foldable prototype device, and it will surely amaze you with its artistic design. According to a video by OLED-info, the new clamshell prototype looks quite minimal with a display notch on the top.
The phone uses flexible OLED technology as like of some other players in the foldable market. Its inward folding will protect the display from scratches and fades away chances of any screen damage from sudden falls. According to Japan’s Mainichi outlet, the screen has passed 300000 folding tests. It is somewhat 100K more than the Samsung’s claims for Galaxy Fold.
In the era when Samsung has unveiled its Galaxy Fold, and Huawei announced Mate X foldable smartphone, Sharp is still aiming to bring the first commercial product “in a few years’ time.” We hope the Japanese display manufacturer might have planned something else. Otherwise, it would be a risky move for Sharp to wait for a couple of years.
To improve its screen manufacturing business, Sharp started developing OLED display for a mobile device in October 2018. Earlier the company was limited to LCD panel manufacturing.
Sharp is not alone in the race – ZTE, Samsung, and Lenovo are also developing foldable clamshell devices.
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