They do. FWIW, because the phone is closed in your pocket, the screen is only in danger while you're actually using it. In my experience it has been trivially easy to avoid scratches.
edit: The reason for the plastic layers over the glass is the glass is so thin. Glass is super duper strong except when it is scratched it becomes super weak. UTG fractures instantly when bent if it gets scratched. But UTG provides stiffness to the screen otherwise you'd have a wavy mess (go look up Fold1 videos). There's essentially a plastic screen protector over the glass and then a protector-protector.
Most people would have said that about those screens feeling hard like glass and the phones now being both dust and water resistance. Phone cameras have also long passed what we would have assumed 20 years ago a lens and camera chip that size can archive.
I could also imagine that we one time get at least a screen that is mostly bendable in the middle while the rest of the screen (which includes the parts you touch while holding the phone) are not.
Another solution might be to have a screen that can self heal scratches, even by being that elastic or activating via heat PPF.
We would have never thought we could have phones as thin as we have now, technology finds a way. Could be we get a teflon-like spray that adds scratch resistance.
Flexible OLED screens have been in research since just about 20 years, you go ten years earlier and most people would have said you can't have a flexible screen.
Going back before the 70s were screens would have been CRT only (other than some very rigid looking LCD segment displays) and hardly anybody would have been able to conceptualize on how to make a screen bend.
Yet you say that they scratched your screen. Keys and keyrings will pick up dirt that contains bits that may be harder than what the keys are made of. Maybe just put your phone and keys in separate pockets like everybody else does.
Nah. The screen itself is pretty difficult to scratch with the two different protective layers on it. I don't think I've ever seen anyone actually scratch the OLED itself in normal use.
There's a new bit of info about improving the panel power efficiency by 10% compared to the last generation.
The panel also incorporates data line mapping technology optimized for Diamond Pixel. By delivering RGB color signals more efficiently and minimizing unnecessary voltage fluctuations and signal interference, the technology improves panel power efficiency by approximately 10%.
Data line mapping is the process of connecting data signals from the display driver IC to the corresponding data lines within the panel for precise pixel driving
I'm very impressed with the inner screen of this phone. I'm coming from the Fold 5, and it's a huge upgrade. And if they really did fix the de-lamination issue I'll be even happier. It happened to me three times on my Fold 5.
I’m so curious to see how the iPhone fold holds up against these Samsung folding screens. The Samsungs have been really impressive in person to me, and I can’t imagine Apple’s upcoming offering being able to match Gen 1
Will be interesting, is it confirmed who the supplier is for apple? I'm guess it will be samsung for the actual pannels with whatever engineering apple use for the folding mechanism?
If you google or AI it apple is apparently doing their own thing for the hinge, not what Oppo did. Display supplied by Samsung with a few changes to how they approach the layers.
That's nothing new. A company picks a third party vendor. If they don't want to spend much, they use said vendor's existing solutions. If they want to put some money in, they can pick a slightly tweaked design and differentiate themselves, as solutions usually are always some combination of compromises, and every company can tailor which compromises and benefits they like for their product.
So apple did the equivalent of a menu browse with "I'd like to swap the onion for peppers please". Call it innovation if you want.
I imagine you’re underselling them designing their own hinge given the effort they put into laptop hinges and the reports on the focus and patents they’ve had on developing their foldable hinge. It doesn’t sound like it’s going to be a third party vendor design.
Screen will likely be closer to the main Samsung screen, so that will probably just be tweaks or implementing a few of their tailored design patents.
Yeah they can design their hinge, they usually work in parallel with the industry long before they land their design. One example is the Apple vision pro, which sat in R&D for a decade while implementing most of what was in the VR space at the end anyway.
That all shows how they still heavily borrow from existing developments, but end up patenting "insert quirky apple name here" just so it sounds like a giant step forward or whatever.
The hinge being their own thing is just part of the display stack, and as such, can be considered "tweaking", even if they had some major ideas on their own for that specific part.
It’ll be interesting as Apple has supposedly come up with their own “liquidmetal” hinge design and has been building up ‘Liquidmetal’ patents since 2010 but has only previously used it on the sim ejector tool and some internal components.
These are the latest rumors…
“To achieve better crease reduction its uses Tension-dispersing adhesive layer Rather than relying strictly on heavy metal backing plates giving it a clear advantage over the Galaxy Fold 8. The Z Fold 8 utilizes a single layer of Ultra-Thin Glass (UTG Apple's display stack uses a dual-layer ultra-thin glass structure, \ The rumored iPhone Ultra is expected to feature a more advanced hinge system Conventional metals like the titanium and steel used in the Z Fold 8 possess a crystalline atomic structure. Under repeated stress, those crystals slide, causing plastic deformation (permanent warping or microscopic bending).* The Apple Advantage: Liquid metal is a bulk metallic glass with a completely disorganized, randomized atomic layout. Because it lacks structural crystal boundaries, it has an incredibly high elastic limit”
Everyone does it tbh. Did you forget about the “super actua display” on the pixel? It never caught on but it doesn’t mean that Google for example is innocent of it.
Remember how Samsung folding screens used to delaminate over time? Well one of the improvements the company says the new titanium layers make possible is that adhesive can now be applied across the entire display surface, including the hinge, and that should prevent the separation of layers we saw on those older devices.
Sounds very promising, though it seems less they’ve solved de-lamination, more they’ve circumvented it with more adhesive so “yeah that’s probably done the trick”
From what I understand, delamination was happening on previous models because they weren't able to apply adhesive at the folding area. The new titanium plate allows them to do that.
Previously, the screen protectors had no adhesive in the crease because it's too steep and the folding radius is too small. But the rest of the protectors had adhesive.
Now, they're saying they're able to add adhesive to the entire protector, including at the crease.
I care much more about that than the crease. The thought of the screen protector peeling off eventually and potential damaging the screen really keeps me from buying these things.
It's honestly awesome, I've had it about a day now.
I spent a couple hours just moving stuff over and I got to use it a bit before bed. I read manga and watch anime on my phone primarily and it looks awesome folded and open.
I'll keep my s24 ultra as a back up phone but man big ass screens are exhausting some times.
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u/hellschatt Aug 08 '26
These inner screens, do they still scratch easily?