What you need to know
- At SID Display Week 2026, Samsung Display highlighted its innovations for phones such as Flex Chroma Pixel display and biometric reading Sensor OLED Display.
- The company also showed off a “converter,” an extendable speedometer/vehicle display that changes depending on certain conditions.
- LG also participated in the SID Display Week, showcasing its 3rd generation Tandem OLED technology.
A good display is essential for any device, and at SID Display Week 2026, Samsung highlighted innovations in OLED technology.
Display Week 2026 is on its last day (May 7), but that’s not stopping Samsung from the show new screens it works on. To dramatically improve OLED technology, Samsung unveiled a smartphone OLED display called “Flex Chroma Pixel”. It is said to reach a peak brightness of 3000nits with stronger support for the BT.2020-96 color space. Samsung says this standard has become the norm for UHD and HDR broadcasts.
The key point behind Samsung’s Flex Chrome Pixel display is that it achieves 96% of the BT.2020-96 standard, as opposed to the 70% covered by most “commercially available” OLED panels in phones today. In addition, Samsung’s development process is focused on “low-power, high-brightness polarizer-free OLED technology.”
Elsewhere, Samsung teased another display: “Sensor OLED Display.” Regarding this product, a company executive said, “Sensor OLED Display is structurally difficult to achieve high resolution because RGB pixels and OPD pixels must be placed within a single layer.” The company says it has achieved a resolution of 500 PPI in 2025, which is a 33% improvement over the previous resolution.
This Touch OLED Display also has some health focus. Samsung demonstrated the user’s ability to touch the screen, so it can measure biometric data such as blood flow.
Samsung has always pioneered its own display technology, but LG and its “future of screens” is also highlighted at SID Display Week 2026. To maintain its leadership in OLED, LG focused on its 3rd generation Tandem OLED technology. According to its press release, this third-generation display “features 18% lower power consumption and more than twice the lifespan of the previous generation.”
LG predicts this technology will spread to AI-powered robots and vehicles. Even LG branded OLED TVs are joining this third generation innovation. The post states that its featured OLED TV panels use “Original RGB Tandem 2.0” for maximum light efficiency. For cars, LG plans “a 57-inch P2P panel that extends from the driver to the passenger seat, and a 32-inch Sliding OLED that retracts into the ceiling and mounts as needed.”
For Samsung cars
Samsung also started work for car screens, highlighting the Stretchable Display 2.0 panel. While that may sound odd for a car, Samsung says the display offers an expandable speedometer that can “transform” to suit your driving conditions. Samsung is confident that the bridge structure can maintain appropriate electrical performance when stretched.
Two EL-QD technology prototypes from Samsung are giving consumers and others a glimpse of its quantum dot display. One was shown at 18 inches (500 nits) and the other at 6.5 inches (400 nits).
The funny thing about Samsung’s Sensor OLED display at Display Week 2026 is that the same health-focused, biometric reading capability was also shown last year. It seems that the company has improved its technological capabilities, although it has kept the Sensor OLED Display name. Like last year, Samsung said this screen has a light-sensing organic photodiode (OPD) embedded in the material to capture your biometric data.
Android Central’s Take
SID Screen Week is pretty good for seeing what’s being developed and by whom. There’s a good chance you’ll see some of this hit the market for purchase. Other times, they’re really cool insights into what could be. Take Samsung’s Touchscreen for example. I’m wondering what kind of “conditions” need to be met for the stretchable car screen to work. Is it speed?
