Samsung Display showcased a number of superior OLED screens and foldable show applied sciences on the ongoing Cellular World Congress (MWC 2025) in Barcelona, together with its OCF smartphone shows which are claimed to ship a peak brightness of as much as 5,000nits. The agency additionally took the wraps off idea gadgets, together with a ‘Versatile Briefcase’, a Flex Gaming console, and its bezel-less OLED Tile shows. Samsung additionally unveiled a 27-inch QD-OLED monitor, with a 500Hz refresh price, in addition to laptops geared up with 15.6-inch 240Hz OLED screens.
Samsung’s OCF Shows Provide Greater Peak Brightness, With out Growing Energy Consumption
At MWC 2025, Samsung showed off its on-cell movie (OCF) OLED panels, that are claimed to supply “1.5 instances the brightness” in comparison with current OLED screens, whereas maintaining energy consumption in verify. These OCF shows have a peak brightness degree of as much as 5,000nits, and the corporate showcased the panel alongside a daily OLED display screen used on smartphones.
Samsung in contrast a regular OLED display screen (left) to its OCF panels
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Samsung says that the OCF panels had been developed underneath its LEAD (low energy, eco-friendly, augmented brightness, and designed to be slim and skinny) initiative. The corporate additionally claims that the OCF shows are thinner than common OLED panels and may carry out in very shiny eventualities.
At its MWC 2025 exhibit, Samsung additionally demonstrated its Seamless Color Studio to indicate how an LCD monitor fails to ship the identical color accuracy as its OLED counterpart, when a smartphone (additionally geared up with an OLED display screen) is positioned in entrance of each screens.
The Versatile Briefcase idea showcased by Samsung at MWC 2025
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New QD-LED and Foldable OLED Show Applied sciences
Among the new shows unveiled at MWC 2025 included Samsung’s 27-inch QD-LED monitor, which has a 500Hz refresh price. The agency additionally showcased laptops with OLED shows and a 240Hz refresh price, and ten ‘OLED Tiles’ with a 0.6mm bezel that may be joined to kind a bigger display screen.
A novel Versatile Briefcase with a significantly massive 18.1-inch foldable show was additionally revealed by the corporate, which may be folded right into a bag-like kind issue for portability. The Flex Gaming console — one other idea system just like the briefcase — sports activities a 7.2-inch foldable OLED display screen and helps well-liked video games from South Korean writer Krafton.
A number of OLED Tiles may be locations collectively to kind a bigger display screen
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Like most idea gadgets showcased at expertise reveals like CES and MWC, it is unclear whether or not (or when) Samsung plans to show a few of these designs into business gadgets. Among the firm’s foldable designs have beforehand make their option to shopper merchandise, and we’d finally see the arrival of a few of the new applied sciences revealed by the corporate at MWC 2025.
For particulars of the newest launches and information from Samsung, Xiaomi, Realme, OnePlus, Oppo and different corporations on the Cellular World Congress in Barcelona, go to our MWC 2025 hub.