CES 2025: Samsung reveals sliding screen technology

At CES 2025, Samsung Display unveiled several innovative slideable OLED panels designed for notebooks, smartphones and tablets with unique form factors. Among the new products, three types of slide screens were demonstrated: Slidable Flex Duet, Slidable Flex Solo and Slidable Flex Vertical.

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New sliding screens for flexible devices

1. Slidable Flex Duet is an 8.1-inch OLED panel that can expand on both sides (left and right) to become a 12.4-inch screen. It can be used in a compact tablet (similar to the Galaxy Tab A8) that converts into a full-size tablet (similar to the Galaxy Tab S9+). This allows the user to have a portable device with great capabilities for work and entertainment.

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2. Slidable Flex Solo is a 13-inch OLED panel that expands on one side, increasing the screen size to 17.3 inches. Such a screen can be used in a 13-inch laptop that expands to provide additional space for working with multiple windows or for comfortably viewing content – be it code, documents or multimedia.

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3. Slidable Flex Vertical is a 5.1-inch slide OLED panel that can expand to 6.7 inches. This screen can be used to create smartphones that go from a compact form to a regular full-size smartphone, offering the convenience of portability and an expanded screen.

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Samsung’s slide-out OLED panels could significantly change the way we interact with mobile devices by offering devices with flexible and expandable screens. These are new steps in design that could become the standard for future technologies. The possibilities for productivity and usability with these screens seem endless, especially for people who value mobility and productivity in a single device.

The possibilities for productivity and usability with these screens seem endless, especially for people who value mobility and productivity in a single device.