Samsung said it would be slow-playing the Galaxy X, but it has been working with certification processes for a device that could be said foldable phone.
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Samsung’s ‘current goal’ is to launch a foldable Galaxy Note-series phone next year
As crazy as it sounds, a foldable Galaxy Note-series device could see daylight by the end of 2018, if and only if Samsung "overcomes some problems."
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Foldable smartphones are still not a thing, but Samsung is already working on stretchable OLED screens
Forget futuristic smartphones with bendable, foldable or rollable displays, and try to imagine one sporting an entirely stretchable OLED screen.
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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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Possible foldable Samsung smartphone design detailed in new patent, as mass production draws near
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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Samsung’s world-first UFS memory cards go up to 256GB, crushing microSD speeds
You probably don’t remember this, but the Samsung Galaxy S6 lacked microSD support, integrating an innovative technology called UFS (Universal Flash Storage) that would have been severely slowed down by traditional external memory cards.The GS7, however, found a way to mate UFS 2.0 and microSD features without you even noticing it, while back in February, the road was paved for
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Samsung exec ‘thinks’ a bendable phone is ‘around the corner’ – 2016 launch still possible?
The convoluted matter of when Samsung intends to bring the first fully flexible smartphone to market appeared settled a few days ago, with an extremely reputable source claiming not one, but two such bendy devices would debut early next year.While Samsung has been working on foldable screen technology for roughly a decade, it’s still not sure it’ll be able to precede rivals LG,
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Samsung exec ‘thinks’ a bendable phone is ‘around the corner’ – 2016 launch still possible?
The convoluted matter of when Samsung intends to bring the first fully flexible smartphone to market appeared settled a few days ago, with an extremely reputable source claiming not one, but two such bendy devices would debut early next year.While Samsung has been working on foldable screen technology for roughly a decade, it’s still not sure it’ll be able to precede rivals LG,
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OPPO foldable phone leak represents nine months of work
The hype has been real for several years. Samsung or LG would always set up a little display showing off moving pictures on a thin filament of bendable material and we’re all left with the impression that a foldable smartphone would be so close down the road.Well, it’s 2016 and we’re only getting just a whiff of a
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Samsung offers a taste of the future with demo of foldable 5.7-inch display prototype
While Samsung’s age-old flexible Youm smartphone display concept yielded several quirky consumer products in the Galaxy Round, Note Edge, then increasingly popular S6 Edge, S6 ...
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Samsung’s 2017 flagship roadmap might consist of five models, including foldable ‘Galaxy X’
Yes, it’s premature, almost ridiculously so, and it’d definitely be wise to wait and see how the Galaxy Note 6 (and its purported “Lite” derivation) come to pass before spreading unsubstantiated gossip about sequels to both it and the S7 that Samsung probably didn’t settle on just yet.Well, we all know a Galaxy S8 (or two) and Note 7 (or two) will ...
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