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Samsung To Launch Smartphones With Bendable Screens in 2017, Reports Bloomberg (bloomberg.com)
Samsung plans to launch two smartphones with bendable screens. The South Korean technology conglomerate could showcase these two phones as early as the Mobile World Congress tradeshow next year, according to Bloomberg, which cites sources "familiar with the matter." The publication adds that one of the phones will fold in half like a makeup compact, whereas the other with a 5-inch display would fold out into a larger tablet-style device. From the report: The devices using organic light-emitting diodes could be unveiled as soon as early 2017. That would likely give it a head start on new Apple Inc. iPhones. The second Samsung model will have a 5-inch screen when used as a handset, that unfurls into a display that's as large as 8 inches, similar to a tablet, the people said.As for more immediate future plans, the Galaxy Note 6, which is expected to launch later this year, might ship with the moniker "Note 7". This would allow Samsung to put its flagship phablet's branding in line with its current smartphone numbering. Samsung launched the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge earlier this year. (Editor's note: Bloomberg website, though very credible, has pop-up videos, which some of you may find annoying. Just in case, here's an alternate source.)
I am truly excited about this.
...that doesn't "phone home"?
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
Apple To Launch Smartphones With Bendable Screens in 2018, Reports hipsters
whoever submitted this needs to find cleaner sources for their interests, Bloomberg really sucks!!!
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be more useful is a watch
My 5 year old LG has a bendable screen. You can bend it once, and you can't bend it back. But it's bendable. So what's the fuss?
I bent a phone once but then it made 5 smaller phones. None of them worked but I'm not a hardware developer.
... from Earth Final Conflict? Always wanted one of those.
So will the 99% of women who insist on putting their phones in their back pockets and sitting on them.
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
I for one welcome our new bendy robot overlords
The idea that Samsung is trying is fold-able screens which have a curved separate display in the middle of the fold. Much like the S7 Edge has curved separate displays at the edges that are really separate. It looks like one screen but is not. Same here, they will have multiple screens joined in the middle at the fold by a curved screen. So, no part of the screen actually moves. Sort of an illusion combined with marketing-speak.
Nothing new to see here. Please move along....
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Im' pretty sure the jeans are cracking them, as it's not hot, it's fat, and only denim can hold that in.
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Very interesting article indeed! Thanks for sharing your insight about this topic. Very helpful thanks!
Very interesting article indeed! Thanks for sharing your insight about this topic. Very helpful thanks!
...over a flip phone?
Apple's research division Samsung's efforts will result in a bendable-screen iPhone in 2018. ;)
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get your FUCKING phone out of your back pocket and you wont break them.
That seems needlessly sexist. I'm sure you were trying to make a point, but you seemed to have forgotten to do so entirely.
If Samsung was the last phone maker in the world I'd be using two tin cans and a string rather than buying anything from them.
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I'm curious what this means, exactly. Years ago I had the idea of something like an e-ink display that could scroll up inside the phone, then be pulled out for a larger display when needed and held in place with an armature of sorts, like a projection screen type thing, without the projector. I mean, the rough idea, as in, wouldn't that be neat. I wonder if that's really going to be a thing.
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Stop putting useless features and overspec'd hardware in phones to maintain your price points. No one needs a 36 megapixel camera. No one really wants a 6mm thick phone, they want battery capacity which requires.... volume and thickness! They want RAM and processing power.
Some of us want features we can't get anymore, like full QWERTY keyboards. Some of us know that onscreen keyboards suck on principle.
If you're willing to make a flipbendy phone, you should be willing to make slider phones again: Full keyboard, 12Mpx camera, Snapdragon 820, removeable SD card and battery. It's not too much to ask.
The iPhone 6 was released in 2014. This is just Samsung copying Apple AGAIN!
Apple's innovation was half-baked though; it was bend once. I think Samsung's goal is for their phones to be bendable multiple times without destroying the screen or battery. ;)
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Why?
To me, useful technology advances are closing in more and more on diminishing returns where as marketing gimmicks is what's really growing. Maybe I'm simply growing older and its always been this way but the realization is only now sitting in.
If you can make it bendable, you can make it shock proof. Shock proof is awesome. Bendable is meh.
Whoosh.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
No woosh there. I totally get it. Note the ";)"
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I was looking for blendable phones from Apple and Samsung.
So will the 99% of women who insist on putting their phones in their back pockets and sitting on them.
I'm sure you just typed without thinking (or just have limited life experience), but let the record show I'm male & way back in 2005 my first 5" Nokia linux tablet lasted about 7mo because I had quickly started carrying it in a back pocket (sans bulky hard-cover) as a VOIP phone.
Free wifi calls & 'fast' internet in the palm of my hand was amazing... right until I sat down on a table-edge. Crunch.
Everybody does it, even geeks.