WEBVTT 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:06.080 our ces 2019 coverage is brought to you by dbrand the dbrand grip and their 00:00:04.240 --> 00:00:09.599 prism screen protector are a great way to keep your phone from getting damaged 00:00:07.440 --> 00:00:12.400 in the event of an accidental drop or 00:00:10.559 --> 00:00:19.119 here's another idea this right here is the royal flex pie 00:00:16.400 --> 00:00:25.039 the world's first commercially available phone with a flexible amoled display now 00:00:23.439 --> 00:00:29.519 i'm sure you guys have a lot of questions and so did i but the good news 00:00:27.599 --> 00:00:32.719 is i have actually gotten the answers for most of them so stay tuned because 00:00:31.439 --> 00:00:38.800 there are some things about this that are really cool and there are some things about this that are a little bit 00:00:36.320 --> 00:00:42.719 less cool so they started out in 2012 but this is actually their first phone 00:00:40.480 --> 00:00:47.039 they've been hard at work on this for years and they actually had to build 00:00:44.719 --> 00:00:52.079 their own fabrication and production line in order to make this a reality and 00:00:49.440 --> 00:00:56.879 it started with the world's thinnest display so they claim that the actual 00:00:54.559 --> 00:01:02.320 display layer of their tech here is just point .01 millimeters thick and this was 00:00:59.520 --> 00:01:08.799 absolutely critical to getting it to be flexible enough that it could not just 00:01:04.559 --> 00:01:12.799 be bent in a tight radius like this but 00:01:08.799 --> 00:01:15.360 it could do so 200 000 times without 00:01:12.799 --> 00:01:20.880 being damaged the trick here is that while flexible OLED technology has been 00:01:17.920 --> 00:01:24.880 around for a long time the substrate is the part that's the challenge because 00:01:22.560 --> 00:01:31.280 traditionally you would build it onto glass and finding a plastic that is also 00:01:28.240 --> 00:01:33.840 both thin and flexible and durable both 00:01:31.280 --> 00:01:37.600 whatever don't worry about it enough is a real challenge now they couldn't 00:01:35.200 --> 00:01:42.479 really give me any details as to exactly what plastic they're using but it seems 00:01:39.920 --> 00:01:46.799 to be working incredibly well now in terms of the operating system and specs 00:01:44.640 --> 00:01:53.520 it's running snapdragon 855 six or eight gigs of RAM 128 or 256 gigs of storage 00:01:50.399 --> 00:01:55.920 and a customized version of Android that 00:01:53.520 --> 00:02:00.000 they're calling water os and the reason for that is that they had to specially 00:01:57.759 --> 00:02:04.320 design the software in order to flow like water from one orientation to 00:02:02.320 --> 00:02:10.080 another so you can use it like this in tablet mode so that's uh either portrait 00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:15.120 or landscape mode that is a 4x3 display if you're into the mobile productivity 00:02:12.319 --> 00:02:20.239 you can fold it up and use it like this and you're going to end up with a 16x9 00:02:17.440 --> 00:02:23.520 display you can turn it around and here you've got i believe it's an 18 by nine 00:02:22.080 --> 00:02:28.879 display if you use it in this aspect ratio and what's cool is that you can 00:02:26.400 --> 00:02:33.840 either turn off the rear display in what they call uh mid brightness mode i think 00:02:31.599 --> 00:02:39.519 medium brightness mode or you can keep it enabled just for that like you know 00:02:36.800 --> 00:02:43.040 super casual hey you know no big deal but this is just the future in my hand 00:02:41.440 --> 00:02:48.239 kind of thing you know don't stress out about it's all good they've also got an 00:02:45.280 --> 00:02:51.760 edge display as you can clearly see here man that looks so cool and there's a 00:02:50.080 --> 00:02:56.640 bunch of functionality that you can set up in order to uh click on it there we 00:02:54.480 --> 00:03:00.720 go so i customized mine to have a camera icon there the camera is also pretty 00:02:58.400 --> 00:03:04.480 crazy so there's two cameras they're both right there which means if you want 00:03:02.800 --> 00:03:08.640 to take a selfie you go ahead and hit that selfie button boom switch to a 00:03:05.840 --> 00:03:12.800 secondary screen it uses uh it seems to use accelerometers and gyroscopes or 00:03:10.560 --> 00:03:16.239 whatever like traditional orientation mechanisms in order to tell which screen 00:03:14.640 --> 00:03:20.640 you're looking at so sometimes it's a little bit off but there you go i'm in selfie mode 00:03:18.560 --> 00:03:24.879 or boom you want to switch back you go there's still a little bit of placeholder chinese in the os look 00:03:23.440 --> 00:03:29.360 they're not planning to launch this in the u.s like anytime soon like hopefully 00:03:27.599 --> 00:03:33.120 sometime this year they said but they're already actually launched in china 00:03:31.599 --> 00:03:37.760 and then this is pretty cool you can go into whoops 00:03:34.879 --> 00:03:42.799 there we go dual mode and then both the user and the subject can actually 00:03:40.720 --> 00:03:47.200 see like preview the picture that you're taking 00:03:44.640 --> 00:03:51.440 i know right however 00:03:49.120 --> 00:03:56.640 there are definitely some things i noticed while content consumption is 00:03:54.239 --> 00:04:00.720 actually i would consider to be a strong point for a design like this where 00:03:58.560 --> 00:04:06.080 you've got stereo speakers i'm going to go like that stereo 00:04:02.400 --> 00:04:07.680 speakers if you're in tablet mode or 00:04:06.080 --> 00:04:12.239 you're going to have to switch to well effectively i mean they could still be 00:04:10.239 --> 00:04:16.959 pumping stereo sound but you'd only really get a mono effect out of them 00:04:14.080 --> 00:04:21.359 speakers in folded mode the screen 00:04:19.359 --> 00:04:26.240 is a bit of a weak point so one of the first things i noticed about it when i 00:04:23.360 --> 00:04:31.600 walked up was that on the lock screen you can clearly see what appear to be 00:04:29.120 --> 00:04:37.199 some kinds of like striations through the display and now initially what i 00:04:34.000 --> 00:04:39.280 thought was that this was because of the 00:04:37.199 --> 00:04:44.160 fold here either the screen had been worn out by being folded and unfolded a 00:04:41.360 --> 00:04:48.800 thousand times on the show floor or it was the slightly ribbed texture behind 00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:53.360 it that was causing it to appear that way upon further inspection though what 00:04:51.520 --> 00:04:57.759 i realized was that they're present everywhere so you can see under this 00:04:55.680 --> 00:05:02.880 file management and clock icon there's kind of a shadow that even moves around 00:05:00.720 --> 00:05:07.280 as i swipe the icons to the left and right now then i thought maybe this is 00:05:05.280 --> 00:05:13.120 some kind of a shadow that they've baked into their os as a graphical feature 00:05:10.320 --> 00:05:16.400 then though i switched it here and it appears as though they still run this 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:21.759 way so there was something else what was the other thing that i was yeah i was using 00:05:19.840 --> 00:05:26.639 the play store as an example here so you can see those shadows are still down 00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:30.880 here so it appears to be an artifact of the display technology itself at least 00:05:29.120 --> 00:05:35.280 at this time another thing that was quite noticeable to me was if we fire up 00:05:33.199 --> 00:05:38.400 the messaging app we've actually got i mean i guess this is great for a show 00:05:36.880 --> 00:05:42.400 floor demo because you've kind of got a watermark on every screen but they 00:05:40.479 --> 00:05:46.800 clearly had demo video running on this for quite some time and we all know that 00:05:44.560 --> 00:05:51.360 burn-in can be an issue with amoled technology and it appears that the the 00:05:49.919 --> 00:05:56.160 state that they're in right now is one where burn-in is not just possible but 00:05:53.600 --> 00:05:59.199 even present on these show floor devices so 00:05:57.120 --> 00:06:01.919 state of things now this 00:06:00.160 --> 00:06:06.880 is really cool especially how impressively tight 00:06:04.720 --> 00:06:11.680 they've got the bend on this thing and now that i'm aware that the issue with 00:06:09.520 --> 00:06:16.639 the striations through the display is not actually the panel or is not 00:06:13.759 --> 00:06:19.759 actually the the bend mechanism itself that's sick 00:06:17.840 --> 00:06:24.240 now there's still obviously some work to do on the software side and there's 00:06:21.440 --> 00:06:27.600 definitely work to do on the panel side making sure that it's not burning in 00:06:25.680 --> 00:06:31.840 like that and improving their color accuracy right i forgot one more thing 00:06:29.759 --> 00:06:37.120 so comparing the play store icon and amazon icon remember these are known 00:06:33.680 --> 00:06:40.479 icons with my samsung note 9 in just the 00:06:37.120 --> 00:06:42.160 basic mode and whatever the other one is 00:06:40.479 --> 00:06:46.400 without the blue light filter on or anything you can see that there's not 00:06:43.919 --> 00:06:50.319 much color depth to the display so the subtleties of colors can get lost a 00:06:48.319 --> 00:06:54.960 little bit that's why that youtube play button there is like a shrieking vibrant 00:06:52.560 --> 00:06:59.120 red rather than the more subtle red that it would naturally be so still some work 00:06:56.960 --> 00:07:02.319 to do on the panel tech but very cool direction and i could 00:07:00.720 --> 00:07:07.360 definitely get used to the idea of having something that i can fold up put 00:07:04.800 --> 00:07:11.919 in my pocket check that out and then unfold and boom i'm watching full screen 00:07:09.919 --> 00:07:16.919 content just like that what an incredible experience for the 00:07:13.919 --> 00:07:16.919 future 00:07:17.440 --> 00:07:22.800 speaking of the future if you care about the future of your 00:07:21.120 --> 00:07:28.000 phone you probably want to get a dbrand grip and a prism screen protector the 00:07:24.800 --> 00:07:29.520 dbrand grip is impact resistant it's got 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:33.360 these little lips on the front so even if you put it down on a table or whatever you're not going to scratch 00:07:31.680 --> 00:07:36.400 your screen it's got precision cutouts for your camera your touch sensor all 00:07:34.960 --> 00:07:39.759 that good stuff and they're super clicky buttons of course you can customize it 00:07:38.160 --> 00:07:43.520 with a skin of your choice and their prism screen protector is basically 00:07:41.360 --> 00:07:48.080 unbelievable it comes with an applicator so you can put it on perfectly every 00:07:45.120 --> 00:07:51.919 time and uh this demo is real i'm actually hammering a nail into a piece 00:07:50.080 --> 00:07:54.720 of wood with the front of a screen you take the screen protector off boom 00:07:53.280 --> 00:07:59.360 screen's still good i'm not recommending you do it i'm just saying you could if you really really really wanted to so 00:07:58.240 --> 00:08:04.479 check them out at the link in the video description guys don't miss any of our ces 2019 00:08:02.479 --> 00:08:07.199 content we'd love to see you at the next booth make sure you subscribe so that 00:08:05.919 --> 00:08:11.360 you know we make our we all make our appointments that's the thing at ces right Colton making all your 00:08:10.240 --> 00:08:16.479 appointments making all your appointments at ces did you make it to all your appointments i 00:08:14.400 --> 00:08:21.520 did do you cancel any today yes what i know 00:08:18.400 --> 00:08:21.520 dang it