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The Wall Street Journal reports today that Samsung is “in the last stage of development” for flexible plastic OLED displays, and that the displays will be released in the first half of 2013. The idea with plastic flexible displays isn’t that you can fold a phone up into an eighth of its size–it’s more that they’re both more durable and lighter than comparative glass displays. And given that top phones like the iPhone 5 and Nexus 4 are highly breakable, we could do with some durability. A release in the first half of 2013 sounds optimistic based on the prototypes we’ve seen, but here’s hoping. WSJ