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Samsung Creates Phone With Curved Display

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday October 9, 2013 @07:54AM from the now-there's-a-right-way-and-a-wrong-way-to-pocket-your-phone dept.

iONiUM writes "Samsung today unveiled the Galaxy Round phone with a curved 5.7" display. It comes with a hefty $1,000 USD price tag. This is a follow-up to the 55" curved TVs it began selling in June, and is most likely an intermediate form in the development of fold-able phones. Considering the recent LG announcement of mass OLED flexible screen production, it seems we are getting close to flexible phones. One question I wonder: will Apple follow suit? So far there has been no indication they are even attempting flexible/bendable screens."

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Re:Why? by phantomfive · 2013-10-09 08:03 · Score: 3, Informative

It's not very often anyone has said, "wow, this phone is so hard to hold."

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Lawsuit incoming by Highland+Deck+Box · 2013-10-09 08:05 · Score: 4, Informative

Apple already patented displaying graphical representations of information on a screen embedded in a communications device.
Re:"Apple, Apple, Apple"! by samkass · 2013-10-09 08:29 · Score: 2, Informative

My answer is: Apple doesn't have a design patent on rounded corners and never claimed to have one. (And Gore never claimed he was the inventor of the Internet, either.)

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Re:Why? by JeffAtl · 2013-10-09 09:42 · Score: 3, Informative

The CRTs were convex, the samsung phones are concave.