Samsung teases mythical smartphone with foldable display
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As intriguing as the prospects of this may be, there is no way I would go anywhere near a gen 1 version of this product. Screens are hard enough to get right when they are immobile objects. A folding/moving screen is going to have some stresses that will probably manifest problems in some unforeseen ways.
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Gonna be interesting few years in smartphones. We are finally heading into phase 3 of the smartphone form factor.
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My money is on "Magical" as the word of choice.Don't worry, after a few years when Apple gets it, it will be "revolutionary"
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Just what we need to play Diablo Immortal. lol
On a serious note though, I like the idea of a foldable phone as long as its not that much thicker than a normal one when folded. I could see a lot of potential use for them.
On a serious note though, I like the idea of a foldable phone as long as its not that much thicker than a normal one when folded. I could see a lot of potential use for them.
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Oh man, I can't believe I used to own an Android 2.x device with a screen the size of my thumb. Now we complain about bezels a couple millimetres wide on a 4K capable handheld device. Truly astounding.
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My money is on "Magical" as the word of choice.Don't worry, after a few years when Apple gets it, it will be "revolutionary"
Perhaps even “courageous”?
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This will be interesting to see, at least to know what the current state of flexible OLED screens currently is.
Last time I checked it was several CESs ago, and those flexible OLED panels would get peppered with dead pixels the same day the show started.
I imagine it evolved quite a lot if Samsung is willing to put up a real prototype or something to talk about. But I fully expect that whatever they announce will be nowhere close to a final, as imagined, consumer product.
But who knows, right? Perhaps they pull a ZTE and just put out something out there.
With the prices of flagships these days, it'd be completely out of reach for me even if Samsung magically produced a phone that works exactly like their concepts anyways.
It'd definitely be way more exciting than all this crap about notches and bezel less displays though.
Last time I checked it was several CESs ago, and those flexible OLED panels would get peppered with dead pixels the same day the show started.
I imagine it evolved quite a lot if Samsung is willing to put up a real prototype or something to talk about. But I fully expect that whatever they announce will be nowhere close to a final, as imagined, consumer product.
But who knows, right? Perhaps they pull a ZTE and just put out something out there.
With the prices of flagships these days, it'd be completely out of reach for me even if Samsung magically produced a phone that works exactly like their concepts anyways.
It'd definitely be way more exciting than all this crap about notches and bezel less displays though.
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Don't worry, after a few years when Apple gets it, it will be "revolutionary"
Assuming that they launch one without the issues that we expect to plague the design, it would be revolutionary. Samsung may beat them to it, but something just has me wary. Not sure why.
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If these phones become widespread I see them utterly killing the tablet market.
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"Back in my day!" We used 320x240 pixel screens - with a stylus.
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More like all tablets would become convertibles with a hinged keyboard attachment and possibly with a docking station available. Traditional tablets yeah it'd be hard choosing that over a folding device.
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Generally agree, we'll eventually get to pocketable tablets and 2:1 laptop replacement tablets. And at some point either ChromeOS or Fuchsia will replace Android (the OS, not the ecosystem). I'm starting to like where ChromeOS is heading but Fuchsia looks promising as a truly modern OS that consumer devices could use. Could be many years away though.
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Google ruined it already by requiring that it not be privacy focused. Their techs wanted it that way but the ad department won out, of course.
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Like the AirPower charging mat?
Other than that one concept video from Samsung a few years back, this folding phone has always been a rumor mill thing and not something Samsung has been telling us is coming "soon", whereas Apple actually mentioned the AirPower during the iPhone X debut event as something you should expect to be able to buy before too long.
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I can see the headlines now about early adopters complaining that the screens split in two after 100 folds.
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I hope it works and brings a better user experience, enabling many things we don't even can imagine nowadays.
That said, I don't think it will, at least on the smartphone market. On the tablet side of things, I can actually see this as an awesome improvement, but Android Tablets are pretty much dead. Will wait and see if they can actually pull this magic trick from their hats.
That said, I don't think it will, at least on the smartphone market. On the tablet side of things, I can actually see this as an awesome improvement, but Android Tablets are pretty much dead. Will wait and see if they can actually pull this magic trick from their hats.
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Don't worry, after a few years when Apple gets it, it will be "revolutionary"
pish posh, They've already done a flexible phone. https://meincmagazine.com/gadgets/2018/05 ... -6-6-plus/
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Samsung, the company who for years touted their awful PenTile lcd matrix, oversaturated OLED screens, and had general readability issues with some of their screens? That company?
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Well, if we're talking OLED in mobile displays, LG certainly isn't the company we're talking about. Best flagships use Samsung displays: Galaxy and Pixel lines, and iPhone X (Apple has their own speciall bits, but they're manufactured by Samsung)
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It makes me wonder if rolling wouldn't be a better and easier solution to "folding". Folding would lead to creasing and increased pressure in one area, but rolling it up let's say around a pen would be awesome.TM
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BGR.com is already on it.My money is on "Magical" as the word of choice.Don't worry, after a few years when Apple gets it, it will be "revolutionary"
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No. The company that manufactures beautiful pentile OLED screens for your precious Apple iPhone X that had the best display ever on a phone. That would be Samsung.
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Don't worry, after a few years when Apple gets it, it will be "revolutionary"
pish posh, They've already done a flexible phone. https://meincmagazine.com/gadgets/2018/05 ... -6-6-plus/
"It's a feature.."
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The FlexPai actually seems kinda neat, I'm looking forward to seeing how this goes.
It obviously isn't enough to make me switch OS, but hopefully it will scare Apple enough to get them to innovate a bit. Or steal the idea, either way works for the customers!
It obviously isn't enough to make me switch OS, but hopefully it will scare Apple enough to get them to innovate a bit. Or steal the idea, either way works for the customers!
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Well. Back in my day! We used a TV for monitor and loaded programs from tape. 12" amber CRT and 5.25 floppy were huge improvements a few years later! I'm not old enough to remember punchcards for input and line printer as output.
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And yet, bizarrely, they can't seem to get the displays on their own phones to look as good as the ones on the Apple phones. You would think they would at least TRY...
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