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Samsung Creates Phone With Curved Display

Posted by Soulskill on 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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  1. Why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What possible reason is there for this?

    1. Re:Why? by queazocotal · · Score: 5, Interesting

      For a 55" screen - the reason is clear - if you're sitting fairly close to it - the edges are noticably further away from you.
      For a 5.5" screen - the most obvious reason would be to protect the screen.
      If, instead of a flat phone, you have one with a light curve on it - it will somewhat protect the screen from scratches due to laying it down wrong.
      I could also see that certain ways of holding it it would make long swipes easier.
      (With the thumb only)

    2. Re:Why? by SJHillman · · Score: 4, Funny

      Mostly just iPhone users. But of course, that's because they've been holding it wrong.

    3. Re:Why? by queazocotal · · Score: 5, Funny

      It curves around your moobs.

    4. Re:Why? by calzones · · Score: 4, Interesting

      And how does TFA make the leap from curved glass (which is nothing new and quite run of the mill in so many other daily applications) to zomg, Samsung is going to have a foldable phone in 18 months? Wtf?

      Article smells a bit of sockpuppeted/astroturfed vaporware with the aim of getting people to forego competing purchases they're contemplating in the near term.

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    5. Re:Why? by FatdogHaiku · · Score: 4, Funny

      It curves around your moobs.

      Once they are big enough you can just tuck the phone under one of them...

      Won't putting it under your boob prevent the signal from getting through?

      Fat does not interfere with cellular frequencies... if it did there would be zero cell reception in places like board rooms, banks, and most importantly... Congress...

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  2. Lawsuit incoming by Highland+Deck+Box · · Score: 4, Informative

    Apple already patented displaying graphical representations of information on a screen embedded in a communications device.

  3. You Have It Backwards by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    One question I wonder: will Apple follow suit?

    Sorry, but you have that process backwards...

  4. Re:Gimmick by Anubis+IV · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't know about you, but my thumb is a fixed length, and it pivots at a joint. As such, if I have my hand at a fixed location on a flat surface, my thumb can only touch about a thumb's length of that surface. If the surface were curved, however, my thumb could touch much more of the surface area, since more of it would be within reach of my thumb. That would also allow the screen to be larger (and thus have more content) without sacrificing the convenience of being usable with one hand.

    But that's just me. Maybe you're just a regular Inspector Gadget with telescoping thumbs and whatnot.