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I'm not sure if I'm understanding the subs correctly, it mentions they used an "original" iPhone screen (and went through 37 of them) before they were able to s

I'm not sure if I'm understanding the subs correctly, it mentions they used an "original" iPhone screen (and went through 37 of them) before they were able to successfully extract layers and get the bendable display working. But it's not clear exactly what they did, how do you go from original non-bendable screen to bendable one? And what do different batches have to do with this?

Dylan16807 4y ago
You remove the glass and be extremely gentle with bending and don't expect it to have any durability. The OLED layer probably has a thin plastic substrate.
captainmuon 4y ago
At my old job, we actually did this on an industrial scale. We took the LCDs, separated the layers (cover glass, polarizer, LCD), added a touch panel, customized glass (maybe hardened or with a logo). Then we glued everything back together with special silicone, so that you had the airgapless look common on phones (optical bonding), but also for larger size screens. It turns out to be cheaper this way, and you can't always buy the plain LCD cell anyway. Our Chinese factory was quite proficient at this, but it is very tricky and you need a lot of practice.
dontlaugh 4y ago
OLED screens are inherently flexible.