Samsung’s foldable teaser shows it’s solving foldable creases with Flex Titanium

Ahead of its 22 July 2026 Unpacked keynote (generally understood to be a foldable phone launch), Samsung has announced its fancy new technology to tackle display creases: Flex Titanium.

Using titanium to fix display creases?

The use of titanium as a reinforcing alloy is just one part of Samsung’s Flex Titanium approach for reducing visible creases on its future foldable phones.

As explained in its newsroom announcement, Samsung had to reinvent the wheel — in the company’s case, it revisited its seven generations of foldable-display phones and concluded that these displays needed a structural redesign.

The solution Samsung came up with was a five-layer structure. The top two, closest to the user, are the common protective layer and the Ultra Thin Glass used in Samsung’s past foldable displays. Below that is the OLED (the actual display), followed by two new layers that make up Flex Titanium.

One titanium-alloy film sits below the OLED display, made using a precision rolling manufacturing process to achieve a thinness that’s one-third that of human hair. According to Samsung, this titanium-alloy film offers 20 times greater mechanical stiffness than plain ol’ polymer films (plastic), which means it’s much more resistant to deformation.

The bottom-most layer is a titanium plate that’s also flexible. Samsung said this plate has multiple jobs: it acts as the support for the entire display module and offers a tighter bond as it removes air gaps between the module and the adhesive (glue). This is possible without entirely losing the flexibility needed to fold.

Any other perks of Flex Titanium?

The specifics were not shared, but Samsung added that it also used a “high-resolution architecture” and “next-generation organic materials” to keep the OLED display vivid while maintaining lower power consumption. This is a welcome change, as the larger display real estate on foldable main screens is usually the primary cause of battery drain in these devices.

Also, Samsung said the new Flex Titanium technology will debut alongside its foldable devices, and both would show up at the 22 July 2026 Unpacked.

Source: Samsung (newsroom)