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.

Comments

Re:a tablet that you can put in your pocket

[J. T. MacLeod]

That's quite a pocket you have.

Re:Want

[jools33]

If Samsung could just go with the base android experience, and tone down their colour schem (a lot) then I might be tempted.

Re:a tablet that you can put in your pocket

[nospam007]

"That's quite a pocket you have."

Naw, he's just happy to see you.

Re: Battery life?

[Qbertino]

The Xiaomi Mi Max 3 is a phablet with a 6.9" display and a 5500 milliamp battery. It's basically a large pocket-touch-screen with a battery attached. Reports say it runs for 2.5 days without charge. You can watch an entire season of GoT on it and still have time to surf and phonecall. ... So if the phablet designers did their work, battery time isn't a problem on these devices.

Entire not the small phone I am waiting for

[ffkom]

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.

Apple already shipped this several years ago

[goombah99]

People complained when apple shipped a bendable phone.

Tired of Marketing People Designing Computers

[BrendaEM]

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!