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by rickdeckard 69 days ago
##. Rollables are most-likely not "a thing" today, because LG did so much fundamental research on this and owns many of the relevant patents.

The key tech is less in the panel itself than the supporting structure (the skeleton supporting and stabilizing the panel, you can also see this in the R&D involved in the hinge-tech of folding devices)

Oppo (and Lenovo iirc) were presenting similar rollable form-factors on roadshows or press-events ~2019, but this was prior to the patents (especially [0]) being granted, likely also used the OLED Panel from LG Display (but I'm not sure the designs were actually considering durability as much as LG already did at this stage)

[0] https://patents.google.com/patent/EP3506247A1

[1] https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2014123272A1

[2] https://patents.google.com/patent/US10564676B2