Bloomberg: Samsung secretly works on a foldable phone that turns into a box

The Bloomberg news agency said on Tuesday that Samsung was preparing to unveil its second foldable device early next year, a luxury phone that is turning into a compact body.

The Korean smartphone giant is working on a device with a 6.7 inch internal screen that retracts into a collapsible box when it is folded like a seashell. The sources added that Samsung is looking to make the second foldable smartphone available at a lower price and lower than that of the device (Galaxy Fold).

The launch of the device may depend on the performance of the Galaxy Fold, announced in February, but which has not yet been launched on the market due to design issues.

According to Bloomberg, Samsung is working with the American designer (Thom Brown) to develop its future foldable smartphone, with the aim of attracting a wide range of consumers, including those who are more interested in fashion, social status and luxury as the technical specifications of the device. For technology enthusiasts, the phone will have a sophisticated screen nostalgic design of the good old days, when the screen folds on the keyboard.

The new folding phone will have a front-facing camera on the screen at the top of the screen, just like in the recently launched Galaxy Note 10, according to a Bloomberg source. On the outside, the device will have two cameras, which are back when the phone is open and before when they are folded.

It is worth mentioning that the announcement of the launch of a second generation of phones (Galaxy Fold) comes at a difficult time for folding phones. No company having officially announced a folding phone, such as: Huawei, or marketed on a phone, such as: Xiaomi and Oppo, a device on the market. After these companies entered the race to win the title of the first to launch a foldable phone on the market, all refused to launch their products, after what happened with the Samsung phone.

Samsung was looking via (Galaxy Fold) to make a new breakthrough in the smart phone market, a lack of innovation in recent years, which has affected the Korean company's sales, but the fierce competition with the Chinese Huawei also affected Samsung's market share. If Huawei managed to outperform Apple to become the world's second-largest maker of smartphones, and promised to eliminate Samsung from the top spot by 2020, US sanctions against Huawei in favor of Samsung, who knew that Huawei's superiority would not be so easy, since benefited from the decline in sales of Huawei J. phones.

Bloomberg said the next generation of Samsung foldable phones would stand out from the current trend, namely that the form, once opened, will be similar to that of smart phones. Screen format.

Samsung is testing the use of Ultra Thin Glass for its new generation of glass screens, which represents only 3% of the thickness of the protective glass of smartphone screens. The screen also wants to ensure the durability of the phone to avoid what has happened with the current phone.