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Samsung Announces Plans for Galaxy Note Smartphone With Bendable Display in 2018
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MacRumors posted it. No reason to take offense on the pseudo-glorious iPhone announcement day. At least, this is more of a actual surprise.
agreed, the bendable/ foldable smartphone opens up endless possibilities like this: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/...nux-keyboard-mobile-device-phone#/updates/all
http://www.planetcom.co.uk/
effectively you could have a screen for work, and a screen for pleasure etc etc etc
Samsung is so desperate they are trying to create doubt to iPhone users to wait until next year. Makes me want to buy an iPhone even more even though I was planning to.
it's an announcement about a "maybe next year" of something they already said they are working on. hardly a surprise.
their timing is bad too, because it will get burried in all the apple stuff, the media likes to put in the front.
Come on Ballmer; give it up. You were historically wrong on the iPhone and everything mobile, so why do you spend your retirement trying to throw shade on Apple under this pseudonym? Better hurry and get off the internet before the new stuff comes out and only makes your day worse. Get under those covers quickly!
First time they gave some kind of timeline so it's a surprise. They are already killing the competition with their current designs so this is just something to keep being excited about.
Shout out to them for being so successful, but come on... This announcement is weird, in poor/lame taste and so unnecessary.
In other news, Samsung just announced the release of their screenless, holographic, in-brain-implanted device sometime in 2045. They say there are some real technical hurdles they must cross first, so they reserve the right to postpone that date. (Eye Roll)
6 years ago samsung made a promo on bendable tablet look on you tube for it
There ya go buddy. Polished up your statement to be more accurate. Always happy to help out a fellow forum member.
Once folded, the phone impact from a battery explosion will be tenfold. I cannot wait to know more about this when it is out.
No doubt you will remember the trusted old EigerMan F10 and F20 do you? NO? Do you remember the iPod - undoubtedly you do. That's the difference between getting it done and getting it done right. Samsung could be offering free unicorns today and no one would care about their desperate bit for attention, any attention for that matter.
People must care otherwise Samsung wouldn't be mentioned here and you wouldn't see so many people with a S8. You posted a reply so you definitely care as well....
Whatever makes you feel better. Never understood why Android people pay so much attention to Apple forums.
Samsung had their bendable display protype before that abysmally built iPhone 6 and iPad air 1. Both bent due to cheap aluminum frames.
I like the humor here. But Apple has repaired this issue by using the 7000 series aluminum starting with the iPhone 6s.
Agreed,
Feels like a catty “Me too” , we have something to announce soon as well, gimmick.
Honestly Samsung’s products shine on their own, and have a lot of respectable innovations that I appreciate and like. Their middle school attitude and similar games is the only piece preventing me from being one of their customers. That and touch wiz.
Admittedly Apple does play some of these games too, however they feel a bit more grown up, college pranks perhaps?
I'm wondering about the same thing. If they can make the screen durable, it would be a great breakthrough as I can see some neat applications for the technology.
So I'm assuming you can't crease one of these screens without breaking it and there has to be some sort of minimum viable radius to the bend; does this mean they will have to be thick cases?