New Samsung Mobile Displays Hint At The Samsung Galaxy S IV

Samsung showed off its Full HD Super AMOLED display at CES, which is expected to ship sometime this quarter. The Full HD display is 4.99-inches, which is the rumored screen size of the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S IV.

The new display will have a 1920 x 1080 resolution with 440PPI, and will also use 25% less battery than its competitors. The Samsung Galaxy S IV may also be running Samsung’s latest and greatest Exynos5 Octa processor, which is rumored to be using a current gen PowerVR 544MP3 GPU.

Samsung also showed off these displays in some concept products. The interesting thing about them is that a few of them were curved displays.

Now these aren’t the flexible OLED displays Samsung were showing off at their press conference, but they do have a slight bend to them. The curved displays could lead to some interesting software developments later on, one example being that the curved portion of the display will feature all of the user’s notifications.

The Samsung Galaxy S IV is slowly being leaked out. Now it’s pretty unlikely that the Samsung Galaxy S IV will feature a curved display, but I would love to see how Samsung would pull this off.

In about a month, we should be hearing the full details of the Samsung Galaxy S IV at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

AnandTech via SamMobile

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beverageninja 5 pts

Can't wait to see one of these curved displays tackle a drop test...

TheDark_Knight 77 pts

Interesting concept. I'm not sure why you would need a curved display though to display notifications. Samsung Continuum anyone? I still think it's useless to show notifications like that because when you see your notifications what are you going to want to do? That's right, open them and actually see the whole message.

RaphaelMastromonaco 10 pts

 TheDark_Knight another great point...im still not seeing the value of a curved display. Well lemme re think this one through, having the tech allows thinner screens/phone also eliminating the bezel and i hear they are able to view the screen from any angle without loss of clarity. But to actually curve the display im not sure im seeing the importance of that. Do you? maybe you can help me understand where samsung is going with this.

CallChrisNow 18 pts

It's interesting, but at this point like you said it's nothing more than a concept. They're not putting too much press power into making it known that they were working on this sort of thing. I don't see any way to make a *better* phone using this technology either, if they change the way the notifications display that's great, but it's going to make the phone harder to pocket, potentially easier to break, harder to repair, it's nonsense.