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Leaked Renders Allegedly Reveal Samsung's Foldable Phone Hours Ahead of Launch Event
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$2K for bleeding edge tech is reasonable in today's market. All the rich kids will want one immediately.
$1980 ...
If it was as thin as normal-ish phone when folded, ok. But it's not; it looks like two small phones folded over each other, and the front screen has enormous bezels. I applaud the innovation, but it has a long way to go until it's really a luxury $2,000 phone.
If it was as thin as normal-ish phone when folded, ok. But it's not; it looks like two small phones folded over each other, and the front screen has enormous bezels. I applaud the innovation, but it has a long way to go until it's really a luxury $2,000 phone.
...and don't forget that when Apple does it there will be those who will claim that Samsung copied them.
It only counts when Apple does it. That's when the clock starts. Most recent example: the notch.
If Apple produced an iPhone that unfolded to an iPad at that price, I'd start saving my pennies for it.$1980 ...
If it was as thin as normal-ish phone when folded, ok. But it's not; it looks like two small phones folded over each other, and the front screen has enormous bezels. I applaud the innovation, but it has a long way to go until it's really a luxury $2,000 phone.
Somewhere in the depths of Cupertino are the cries of Jony Ive. “Why can’t I do THAT!”
Affordable, sexy, powerful. Technology has been redefined today. This will change how I work as a professional video game streamer.
Affordable, sexy, powerful. Technology has been redefined today. This will change how I work as a professional video game streamer.
You can safely bet a ton of these will find their way to Cupertino. Tim will then probably tell the team to tear them apart and to get back to him when they figure out what “refinements” as well as the special names they can call those refinements to justify the 5 year wait before Apple releases it. Of course, at least a couple of them won’t be torn up and those will go to Tim’s special “what will hopefully save Apple’s bacon in the future” drawer so he can play with the latest “prototype” from one of Apple’s unofficial design studios anytime he feels like it.
$1,980. Wow. This is a super impressive device. 12 gigs of RAM and 512 GB of storage by default? Damn.
Now I’m curious what the carrier lease/financed monthly price will be..... or is this only going to be available as an unlocked device? Hmm.
Now I’m curious what the carrier lease/financed monthly price will be..... or is this only going to be available as an unlocked device? Hmm.
I don’t think he’ll say that. More likely he’ll say to himself at his age and in his “partially retired” mindset is something like “less work for me”.
Is the conversation shifting from who developed the first prototypes to who released the phones?Sure the technology was being developed, was it released though?
We are talking about how Samsung has been working on this for years, don't turn the conversation around.Is the conversation shifting from who developed the first prototypes to who released the phones?
Being the first to market doesn't mean they were the innovators or the inventors. It just means first to market. Flexible displays have been in development for many years with multiple manufacturers.
That's not being salty, that's just the truth. But yes, there will always be ppl who hate Apple and people who hate not-Apple. It is what it is.
https://www.patentlyapple.com/paten...phone-design-invented-by-late-steve-jobs.html
https://www.patentlyapple.com/paten...nt-for-a-flexible-foldable-iphone-design.html
https://www.patentlyapple.com/paten...smartphone-next-week-at-mwc-in-barcelona.html
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No we are talking about how this isn’t a new concept, got the convo slightly incorrect.We are talking about how Samsung has been working on this for years, don't turn the conversation around.
Caveat: I had no idea how popular large screen phones would become. However, I think Samsung is missing the mark if this is a large phone sized device that folds to a mini tablet size. At this stage, with the thickness penalty, I think it makes sense to do a large tablet that folds to have a more compact footprint for transport, or a phone with a small footprint that folds out to a full size phone screen. Making a big phone thick to have it double in size to a small tablet is an expensive tech demo in my opinion. In fairness, that may be all they expect this first device to be.