Samsung Display will show off several new flexible OLED display solutions during CES 2025 this week. One is the "world's first 18.1 inch foldable monitor," which can be folded for use in different scenarios.

Others include rollable displays for smartphones, tablets, and laptops that let a relatively small screen become a larger screen when needed.

Samsung Display 18.1-inch foldable panel

Samsung says the 18.1 inch foldable display is the size of two tablets when unfolded to full size. But you can also fold it for use as a 13.1 inch laptop displays.

This new display isn't that much bigger than the 17 inch foldable displays Samsung and LG have been making for the past few years, and which have been show up in real-world products like the Asus Zenbook 17 Fold OLED, LG Gram Fold, and HP Spectre Foldable. But the extra size could make a difference: when folded for use in laptop mode, those devices have screen sizes of around 12.3 to 12.5 inches.

Samsung is also showing off several rollable displays at CES, although the company calls them "Slidables," rather than rollables. Either way, these are screens that basically wrap around and hide inside the body of your device when you don't need them, allowing for a compact phone, tablet or laptop to have a larger display when you want the extra screen space.

One is the Samsung Slidable Flex Duet, which is an 8.1 inch screen that extends on two sides to become a 12.4 inch ultra-wide display.

Another is the Samsung Slidable Flex Solo, which only unfolds in one direction. But this is a larger screen that starts at 13 inches and extends to 17.3 inches, which could allow a standard-sized laptop increase screen space by 50% or more.

The last model is a smaller display called the Samsung Slidable Flex Vertical which starts at 5.1 inches and extends to 6.7 inches. This screen could be used in a smartphone to offer a compact device that's smaller than most modern smartphones while having the option of extending the display to match the size of some of the biggest models around.

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