Samsung Again Teases Foldable Smartphone Ahead of February 20 Event

[Shanghaichica]

The original question was whether or not Apple designed and engineer the screen, not if Samsung is the leader in the industry. That's a different question. So I think we're in agreement that Apple designed the screen.

Seeing how ROGMaster liked your post, he now seems to agree with me which is odd since he was saying Apple didn't engineer or design the screen. I have him on ignore so I won't see his responses, but regardless, this debate is settled.



Look at the leaked S10 pictures. There's still a chin, but they removed the top. I don't think they're going for uniformity



I don't think they can replicate Face ID easily. Apple bought PrimeSense (creator of Xbox's Kinect) and spent 4 years of research and development to shrink the Kinect hardware (something that's a little bit bigger than a nintendo switch) into a small module on a portable device that can securely unlock the phone using your face.

I'm sure Samsung is researching this, but this isn't something they can do in one year. Regardless, this is getting off topic now.

Huwawei aeem to have done it. It might not be exactly the same but it’s near enough. If huwawei were able to do it then I’m sure others could.

As for the notch it’s necessary on the iPhone to house all the sensors. I would say the tear drop is the best as it’s the least intrusive but that doesn’t really paint the entire picture because the tear drop notch is only housing one selfie camera. I don’t think you can make a fair comparison even with the S9 or upcoming S10 because again there are only selfie cameras. I suppose the worst has to be the one on the pixel 3 XL.

 

[DNichter]

According to Samsung's leaked documents... you're right.

The small screen is very skinny and rather tall. The onscreen keyboard when the phone is folded will be narrower than the iPhone SE. Which would mean a tiny keyboard.

Then when you unfold the phone... the screen is much bigger. But is it too wide to type?

Here's how the two screens compare:

And here's how the Galaxy S9 Plus screen compares to the unfolded phone:

I'm just trying to figure out when you'd use the phone folded vs unfolded.

Folded would make the screen very narrow and possibly uncomfortable to type... but unfolded would make the entire package require two hands to operate.

I guess that's the point: small when folded but opens up to a larger screen. But I'm wondering if the outside screen is too small?

It would suck if you had to unfold it every time you wanted to do anything other than just checking notifications.

Not to mention... video content won't be that much bigger on the unfolded phone versus a Galaxy S9+

Very strange dimensions and aspect ratios indeed.

EDIT: After reviewing my post... I came to this realization:

The unfolded "tablet" mode is a little bit smaller than an iPad Mini. That might be cool.

But the folded "phone" mode... the mode you might interact with the most... seems like it would be a challenge.

I think people wanted a device that starts out as a phone and can unfold to become a tablet.

But this seems like Samsung created a folding tablet... and then tacked on a tiny phone screen on the outside.

Thanks for the info. Pretty much what I’ve been thinking. A narrow thick phone and an undersized tablet. Basically the worst of both worlds. The tablet of course could be useful but then again, you don’t have any good Android tablet software. I think I’ll stick with a separate iOS phone and tablet, both optimized from a hardware and software perspective. I expect the Huawei version to have much more potential out the gate. We’ll see what happens.