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.)

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Fold-able is NOT Bendable

[moehoward]

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....