Rumor: LG wants to make tablets with rollable screens

LG wants to make tablets with rollable screens, insiders at the company have said. The rollable screens would become possible now that LG can make bendable amoled screens with a new technology.

Users can bend the tablets into the shape of a roll of paper, Cnet claims based on insiders in an article that also quotes a researcher from the manufacturer. The rollable tablets would become possible because LG makes its flexible amoled screens with a new technology, where the screens pass under two rolls, something called ‘roll-to-roll’.

The article does not state what exactly the added value of rolling up is. It is probably a way to make the tablet smaller, making it easier to store. Currently, LG is using its manufacturing capacity to make curved amoleds, such as for the G Flex smartphone.