Rumor: foldable smartphones from Samsung, Google and Xiaomi get 120Hz screen

The panels that Samsung Display will deliver this year for foldable smartphones are reportedly 120Hz OLED panels with LTPO backplanes. In addition to Samsung itself, Google, Oppo, Vivo and Xiaomi would release foldables with the panels.

All this year’s foldable smartphones using Samsung Display panels offer 120Hz and feature low-temperature polycrystalline oxide low-temperature polycrystalline oxide backplanes, claims Ross Young from analyst firm DSCC. Young is more likely to report early information about upcoming smartphones. According to him, the upcoming Z Flip 3 from Samsung itself contains a 120Hz screen with a diagonal of 6.70 inches, but Google is also releasing a foldable 120Hz panel this year with a diagonal of 7.57 inches.

In addition, according to the analyst, a 7.11 “device from Oppo, an 8.2” model from Vivo and an 8.1 “foldable from Xiaomi will appear. Young claimed earlier this year that several foldable smartphones will appear in 2021, including from Google and Oppo and he stated that Xiaomi is working on several folding phones in 2020. That the Z Flip 3 will have a 120Hz screen was already apparent earlier this month from data from the Tenaa certification database, wrote MyFixGuide.