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Samsung's folding smartphone, the flexible Android OLED handset commonly known as Galaxy X, will use an unusual asymmetrical design, say insiders. The device, which will use a state-of-the-art folding OLED panel built by Samsung Display, will attempt to meet the demands for both larger screens and more convenient phones. However, in the process it will also address a big problem with which folding devices can fight.
This is the need to get at least a bit of information from a device even when it is closed. We have seen different products approach this in different ways: flip phones, for example, have sprouted small secondary screens on the outside, which could preview information when the handset was closed. Planet Computers' Gemini, for its part, has avoided a second screen but uses programmable LEDs that can indicate different things with flashing color combinations.
While most unofficial concepts of Samsung's forthcoming device have shown a smartphone that is neatly bending in half, Korea's reports suggest that this may not be the case. Samsung lens. Instead, it seems that some of the first lessons learned from phones like the Galaxy Note Edge, the curved end smartphone launched in late 2014 that has influenced most Galaxy Note and Galaxy S phones, have been taken up in this new design.
Note Edge is Samsung's first smartphone to put a notification strip on the side of the device. In practice, it could work as a notification ticker, taking advantage of the fact that OLED panels can be switched on selectively. This concept of a small part of the display still visible even when the phone is in a housing – or, with a folding device, when most of the screen is closed – has apparently led Samsung to consider a shift hinge.
Open, ETNews suggests, the handset will have a 7-inch screen. However, it can be closed in a rectangle, with an offset area that still leaves some of the visible OLED. This can be used to display the caller ID of incoming calls, previews of messages and other alerts.
Foldable displays require, of course, a special production, on which Samsung also works. Samsung Display plans to begin trial production of flexible OLED panels at an establishment in South Korea this summer, focusing on getting started before doubling efforts to look at yields and cost- efficiency. If all goes as planned, the ambitious program could see mass production at the end of the year.
That would be around 100,000 units a year, although Samsung Display has even bigger intentions for 2019. Indeed, it is said, the goal is one million panels a year next, it's reported.
Samsung had already announced that it was planning to bring into service its OLED production, foldable and collapsible, in 2018, but that it had been suspicious of the fact that it was not in the air. with regard to details. Back in January, he confirmed that the screen technology was indeed on the roadmap. The products it would lead to and the type of volume on which they would be made would not have been decided, said Samsung executives at the time.
According to the last gossip of South Korea, the goal is always to have a foldable phone – the device we came to know as the Samsung Galaxy X, although the actual launch whose name is still uncertain – on the market in early 2019. The specifications, beyond the 7-inch folding screen, have not been confirmed. Still, we expect something in line with the current Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 +, as it is about the tip today.
What it will not be is cheap. Previous leaks indicated that Samsung will align the fairly exclusive production numbers of the Galaxy X with a similar high-end price. Indeed, reports from the country of origin of the company suggested somewhere north of the equivalent of $ 1,800 could be on the cards.
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