According to investment bank UBS, a foldable iPhone is still on track for 2020, or 2021, but a foldable iPad might be the first Apple foldable.
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Foldable Microsoft Surface tablet hinted for 2020
A foldable Microsoft Surface tablet is planned by the company for the first half of next year, according to a recent report.
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Samsung Display crushes all hope of foldable ‘Galaxy X’ phone release until 2019
Foldable smartphone technology is still highly immature and challenging, according to a leading Samsung Display engineer.
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Samsung will likely parade an advanced foldable smartphone at MWC… behind closed doors
A presumably advanced pre-release foldable smartphone prototype from Samsung is reportedly coming to MWC 2017, but not for the general public.
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New sources confirm Samsung could soon mass-produce foldable phones, but it may not want to
We already expressed our skepticism over the feasibility of Samsung’s rumored plan to build as many as 10 million foldable smartphones a month starting sometime in H2 2017, and a fresh Korean media report highlights the chaebol’s very understandable “caution.”
It’s not that Samsung couldn’t mass-manufacture and sell the so-called Galaxy X on a relatively large scale next year, considering how long it’s been since R&D kicked off and all the technological progresses made in the meantime. But the company, still reeling from the Note 7 fiasco, may simply not want to take the risk of there not being sufficient market demand for obviously costly flexible devices.
Low yields for several essential components helping with elasticity and robustness also have to be carefully examined, possibly leading to reduced profitability, and at the end of the day, even if “Project Valley” is cleared for takeoff in the near future, odds are the first commercial product will be a foldable tablet, not a phone. With an outward, not inward, curved panel, and non-rollable battery “placed in the flat sides instead of folded areas.”
You’d still be looking at a groundbreaking gadget flaunting new standard-setting flexibility and resistance to hard impacts, so in case Samsung indeed has doubts about customer interest, let your voices be heard in the comments section below. Wouldn’t you just love, say, a 7-incher capable of seamlessly turning into a 5-incher for improved pocketability?
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Foldable 7 to 5-inch Samsung smartphone expected in stores next year
Ah, foldable gadgets! An idea as old as time, a concept as revolutionary as the touchscreen, but an execution as difficult as sending humans to Mars. Sooner or later though, it has to come to fruition, and there are only two companies prospectively capable of pulling it off.
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