Earlier this year, LG and Samsung were having a verbal fighting match over which company would be the first to launch a phone with a flexible display. Samsung technically won because they put the Galaxy Round on store shelves in Korea first, but it’s LG that’s taking the G Flex to international markets. In an email that I’ve received this morning from LG’s Finnish public relations people, they say that the G Flex will come to France in February 2014 and to the Nordic region in early 2014, but what about the United States?
— @evleaks (@evleaks) November 13, 2013 According to the Twitter user who knows more about a company’s future product portfolio than the heads of some of the largest wireless operators in the world, three out of America’s top four operators will carry the G Flex at some point in the future. AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile have all jumped onboard, while Verizon has decided it can do without the 6.0 inch 720p banana phone.
Should you even consider the G Flex? I’m going to have to say no. The technology sure is impressive, but does it deliver any actual benefits? Sure, flexible displays, due to their very nature of using a plastic substrate, are more impact resistant, but how clumsy are you that you need an unbreakable phone? Don’t get me wrong, there will come a point in the near future where both Samsung and LG launch flagship phones that use this technology, but that’s at least a year away. Maybe they’ll take that time to think up some interesting gimmicks to help sell more units.
