Samsung is working on a new, foldable smart phone, if the research on this comes to frutation, Samsung could emerge as the market leader in smart phones, overtaking Apple’s claim.
It’s believed so far that Samsung’s upcoming foldable smartphone will be an outward-folding handset. While the company hasn’t confirmed anything about the device, a number of new reports by the Korean media have claimed that Samsung Electronics and Samsung Display are busy developing an inward-folding smartphone with a 3R curvature (curvature radius of 3 millimetres).
Samsung had worked for years on a smartphone — as well as its components — that can be folded inward, before going in the opposite direction to develop the out-ward folding handset two years ago.
However, the company recently changed its direction once again and started focusing on its initial concept for some unknown reason.
“Samsung has nearly developed technologies related to the in-folding type phone. It means a lot for it to return to the type,” an industry source told.
The latest titbits came more than two weeks after Koh Dong-jin, the president of Samsung’s mobile business, said that the company may launch a foldable smartphone sometime next year.
“We have a plan to adopt a foldable display in our roadmap. We are currently addressing some technological hurdles to commercialize such a device,”Koh said. “We will launch a foldable device when we are fully ready, and we are aiming to do so next year.”
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