In addition to a flexible screen expected to start "pilot" production this summer, that mythical first foldable Samsung phone could also use a curved cell.
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It's definitely way too early to have any sort of guarantee regarding Apple's 2019 or 2020 iDevices, but a foldable iPhone could be on the horizon.
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Samsung's already mythical first foldable smartphone could still sport an inward-folding design after the fold-out concept has been abandoned.
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Forget futuristic smartphones with bendable, foldable or rollable displays, and try to imagine one sporting an entirely stretchable OLED screen.
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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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Believe it or not, even after a catastrophic Note 7 quality control failure, with swift and far-reaching negative financial implications, as well as probable S8 setbacks, Samsung reportedly still sees 2017 as the breakthrough year for both (near-) bezelless and completely foldable smartphone designs. Not to mention the chaebol remains in running for the mobile industry’s largest high-end processor and OLED screen manufacturing contracts.
At a first glance, it looks like Samsung might be biting off more than it can chew, which is why another rumored Galaxy X delay wouldn’t exactly take us by surprise right about now. The long-in-development flexible phone/tablet hybrid however moves one step closer to materialization today for a change, as analysts expect as many as 10 million such groundbreaking devices to enter production every month from Q3 or Q4 2017.
A limited commercial launch could therefore go down in select Samsung-devoted markets during next year’s latter half, alongside the smaller-scale 1 million per month release effort of arch-rival LG in the same novel niche.
What’s truly intriguing and practically unheard of thus far is Apple and Google’s speculated 2018 involvement in the foldable smartphone market, though we’re extremely light on details when it comes to those two.
That’s not what we can say about the Samsung Galaxy X, aka Project Valley, which may have just shown us its true colors and innovative flexibility. Get a load of this snazzy, bendy, fairly tall slab of silicon patented over in Korea, possibly sporting a 7-inch OLED display you can fold in half to easily carry around and handle the hardest drops. Fingers crossed the scintillating prototype indeed comes to pass next year.
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Eager to get a head start on Apple that may prove essential for the company’s Q3 financial results and especially Q4 sales, lucrative holiday season included, Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Note 7 several weeks before the
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There’s been a lot of back and forth in the rumor mill lately regarding the prospective launch window of the world’s first wholly flexible, foldable smartphones. Samsung is at the forefront of innovation in this field also, likely eyeing an official Galaxy X rollout by the end of 2016 or, worst case ...
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The Human Media Lab at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, isn’t a stranger to mobile innovations — it made the ReFlex flexible smartphone concept after all. But in light of holograms (heh) becoming more and more popular in consumer technology, students at the school have decided to take it up to the next step with a
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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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