Samsung To Launch Smartphones With Flexible Displays In 2012

We have been hearing rumors for a while now that Samsung has been working on some smartphones that will come with a flexible display, and now Samsung has confirmed that the company plans to launch devices with flexible displays in 2012.

Samsung announced this during their recent earnings call, and Samsung’s Robert Yi hasd the following to say about Samsung’s new flexible display technology.

The flexible display, we are looking to introduce sometime in 2012, hopefully the earlier part. The application probably will start from the handset side. It will be interesting to see what Samsung’s plans are for their flexible displays and how they intend to integrate them into future smartphones.

More information's:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/242770/samsung_to_sell_phones_with_flexible_screens_next_year.html

Samsung Flexible OLED display Hands-on:

BBC iPad, iPhone App Updated With Apple AirPlay Support

The BBC has today rolled out a great new update for its iPlayer iOS application which brings with it support for Apple’s AirPlay features. The new update will now allow you to stream content from the BBC iPlayer application directly to your big-screen HD TV through Apple’s TV device.

The update provides a great improvement for BBC viewers in countries other than the UK who may have not been able to view the BBC content on large screen HDTV’s. Now users in countries such as Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, The Republic of Ireland, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland have enjoyed BBC TV shows via their iPad or iPhone iPlayer applications. Some content available in these countries is free on the BBC iPlayer but to get access to all TV shows users will need to pay a $7.99 monthly subscription. You haven’t already downloaded the awesome BBC iPlayer application it is now available to download for free from the iTunes App Store.

More information's:
http://thenextweb.com/uk/2011/10/20/bbc-updates-its-global-ipad-iplayer-to-include-apple-airplay-support/

Watch BBC iPlayer Abroad: