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Samsung Says Its Foldable Phone Will Be a Tablet You Can Put In Your Pocket (cnet.com)
The CEO of Samsung's mobile business, D.J. Koh, said you'll be able to use its upcoming foldable smartphone as a tablet that you can put in your pocket. While the phone has been teased and hyped up for several months, Koh stressed that it will not be a "gimmick product" that will "disappear after six to nine months after it's delivered." It'll reportedly be available globally. CNET reports: However, the foldable Samsung phone, like the Galaxy Round, will be Samsung's testbed device to see how reviewers and the market react. The Galaxy Round, which bowed vertically in the middle, was Samsung's first curve-screen phone. It's a direct ancestor to the dual curved screens we see on today's Galaxy S9 and Note 9 phones. The larger screen is important, Koh said. When Samsung first released the original Galaxy Note, he said, competitors called its device dead on arrival. Now, after generations of Notes phones, you see larger devices like the iPhone XS Max and the Pixel 3 XL, proving that consumers want bigger screens. A foldable phone would let screen sizes extend beyond 6.5 inches.
the thing is still 'vaporware' until it ships.. then we can talk about the gimmick.
Good. I'm looking forward to trying it out.
Hopefully we can connect a thin, foldable keyboard to it.
I already have a Kindle Fire 7"
Its a tablet that you can put in your pocket
And a lot cheaper
the phone puts you in it's 'pocket'..
Now if only they can avoid filling it with bloatware, and not charge >$500 for it, I might consider it to replace my phone AND tablet. If you think of it as being usable as a phone and a tablet, then it makes sense.
Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
He made these Chinese companys do what Americans want done. The Japanese owners can thank Americans that they have markey place to sell.
it may be a niche market, but definitely, it will expand
I see what they did there
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
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Traditionally, larger screens come with higher power requirements. What's the battery life going to be with this type of arrangement?
or is it just to get Apple worried and working on the wrong path?
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Hopefully it will allow our corporate masters to track us more quickly and efficiently.
And I just ordered a Note9 yesterday.
I used to laugh at the huge phones too at first but after first using a OnePlus One, which was pretty big at 5.5" at the time, I'm fully converted. Unless you really just use it to make phone calls (who does that nowadays) a larger screen is way more comfortable for emailing, chatting and browsing since you see more than a paragraph at a time. Also useful for watching youtube^H conference calls etc.
Still, the physical dimensions are a downside, and if there was any way to reduce them and get it to easier fit in pockets, that would be great of course.
I don't see how they'll prevent scratches that all plastics are super-prone too, assuming there's no superfoldable gorilla glass around?
If they don't, that's a lot of money to pay for something that will be scratched up just from normal daily use in no time.
Planned Obsolescence! As the screen is folded regularly, it'll slowly begin to fail, and they will time it juuuuuust right so they release their next iteration of folding phone-lets.
Samsung will lead the way with new junk and everyone else will copy it because the whole market has stagnated because they can't rip-off consumers as easily with tiny incremental upgrades every 2 years.
I despise the over-sized and over-weight phones sold today, and would have loved a foldable phone that is really small while folded, and maybe 4" or 5" of display when unfolded.
No such product in sight, still.
Small tablets even around 7" have always failed. For myself I prefer something that actually fits comfortable in a pocket. Somehow the smartphone industry now thinks everyone will replace a notebook with a smartphone for everything. Screen size is important in doing much of anything. Too big and its bulky, too small and its not useful.
Coming from Samsung, that's for sure. This is a company on fire, and people are already burning with anticipation.
They are about to ship a special Duke Nukem Anniversary edition next year.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
away junk.
People complained when apple shipped a bendable phone.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
Curved and folding screens aren't going solve anything. They are just going to make phones and tablets more fragile so people break them and have to buy more.
I hate the aspect ratio on my Galaxy Note 8 (replacement phone). If you look closely, at the curved edges, you can see a blue line at each side. What an achievement. : P
Morons!
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Apple already made a bendable phone.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
"It will not be a "gimmick product" that will "disappear after six to nine months after it's delivered."
Really? And if it doesn't sell will you promise to support it for years?
Why should "reviewers" be allowed to exert ANY control over consumer devices? The "tech reviewers" are why we have all glass fragile sealed devices without replaceable batteries. "to see how reviewers and the market react" Personally, I am beyond tired of anything "reviewers" say about anything.