Apple prepping flexible screen for upcoming smartwatch –report

Apple is readying a flexible screen for its upcoming smart watch, a tech site reported this week.

Korea-based Chosun cited industry sources who said the rumored "iWatch" will have a plastic OLED monitor that can be bent.

"It remains to be seen whether Apple can repeat its habitual trick of improving innovations so much that it acquires a kind of monopoly on the popular imagination," it said.

By comparison, Apple's rival Samsung recently unveiled the Galaxy Gear smartwatch, but it has a normal rigid display.

Samsung's smartwatch weighs in at 73 grams and is "slightly on the heavy side," it added.

Meanwhile, Chosun quoted its sources as saying the iWatch may have three variants, with screens measuring 1.3, 1.4, and 1.5 inches.

"A prototype of the 1.5-inch has already been made," the source said. — TJD, GMA News