There was talk of it for 2015, then there was talk of a launch for the beginning of 2016, and it seems that it will finally arrive in 2017. We talk about Samsung's folding screen mobile, one of the few innovative mobile phones that has been talked about recently. and that it could land permanently next year.
The screen is ready
One of the keys to this mobile would be, logically, the screen. And it is that this screen would have to be foldable. We are not talking about a curved screen, like the one we already see in the Samsung Galaxy of the Edge series, but about a screen that can be curved over and over again, and that can even be completely folded. We had already seen prototypes of Samsung, and it is quite clear that this screen will be in charge of the Samsung Display division. In fact, they claim that the development plans for said screen are going as expected. The screen would already be ready.
A 5-inch mobile, a 7-inch tablet
There is not much data that we know about this new smartphone. In fact, perhaps calling it a smartphone is a mistake, because it seems like it will be more than just a smartphone. Actually, we only know that the technology of the screen will be OLED, something that is obvious because it is the only technology with which we could have a folding screen. But it is also the technology that Samsung uses on the screens of its high-end mobiles.
Apparently, this new Samsung device would actually be a smartphone with a 5-inch screen when the screen was folded. However, it would be able to become a 7-inch tablet as if by magic. It is what we had already talked about on occasion, that a mobile could become a tablet.
The launch of this new smartphone with a folding screen could be aimed at revolutionizing the mobile market a bit, which seems to be declining recently due to a lack of innovation. In fact, if it is not folding mobile phones, it will have to be smart watches, but of course a relevant novelty is needed for this market to gain relevance again and users to spend money again.
