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    Flexible displays

    May 05, 2020 4 minutes
    Carrie Marshall

    It seems as if 2020 will be the year of the fold and the roll. Motorola’s rebooted Razr phone comes with a foldable display and a price of around £1,500, while Samsung’s Galaxy Fold has a bigger screen and price tag: it’s £1,800. Both the screen and its price fade into insignificance next to LG’s OLED TV R9–a 65-inch 4K TV that rolls away completely and will cost an estimated sixty thousand dollars.

    How do you make a display that folds? With some difficulty. We’ve been promised flexible, foldable displays for years but it’s taken a long time for them to become practical. Part of that is because we

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