Samsung Rumored to Launch First 'Rollable' Foldable Phone Later This Year

[t0rqx]

Rollable seems a amazing way for a watch! Remembering the Nokia “snake” like concept.

 

[MayaUser]

Gotta start somewhere. Without Samsung, we would still have 3.5” iPhones and 4gb storage for $1999
iPadOS is the result of no competition. Saw the same with intel before Ryzen

without samsung huawei or other of many already started 4" 5" and so on...only Apple under Steve was stuck for 3.5"
Making a bigger display i wouldnt call innovation...the quality of the display its a different thing
Intel was because of the silicon brain Johny Srouji, now is at Apple for a decade and we see how its going
Again, this is a main device nowadays, people everyday use this , its something that you can count on...you cannot say "gotta start somewhere...is like when car industry innovated airbags but they weren't reliable at all and people got hurt...again, for prototype "gotta start somewhere" is ok, but when you charge a price, the consumers must rely on their devices daily

 

[44267547]

Erm…..aren’t the current foldable devices a POS? Fix that first Samsung 🙄

So….you’re asking a question to something that you don’t know the answer to and then yet you’re answering your own question by telling Samsung to ‘fix it’? Which basically means you don’t know what you’re talking about then reference Samsungs foldables.

And no, they’re not a ‘POS’.

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

I wonder which Samsung device will excite people more. The one you can fold or the one you can roll.

 

[guzhogi]

One concern I've seen with laptops that can extend to foldable phones: people sometimes put paper or whatever inside, or get cords caught in there, close the laptop a little too forcibly, and crack the screen. Yeah, it happens.

 

[MayaUser]

I wonder which Samsung device will excite people more. The one you can fold or the one you can

what? the one you can fold or the one you can ? what do you mean?

 

[WWPD]

I'll just wait for the iScroll. It's a scroll, an abacus and a sun dial...these are not three devices.

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

what? the one you can fold or the one you can ? what do you mean?

Whoops. Not sure what happened to the last word. Haha, I meant to say, the one “you can fold or the one you can roll”.

Thanks!

 

[SamRyouji]

You have to admire Samsung’s courage releasing innovation like this.

Indeed. This is what I called the REAL courage.
And props to early adopters for being even braver to test this kind of exciting prototype from the future.

 

[rjohnstone]

Erm…..aren’t the current foldable devices a POS? Fix that first Samsung 🙄 and they make fun of Apple for making dumb decisions

First gens were pretty meh.
Samsung has made a lot of improvements. The Fold 3 is pretty durable.

First gens would snap in half in a reverse bend test... Fold 3 survived with no breakage at all.
I'd say that's a significant improvement.

 

[Deguello]

without samsung huawei or other of many already started 4" 5" and so on...only Apple under Steve was stuck for 3.5"
Making a bigger display i wouldnt call innovation...the quality of the display its a different thing
Intel was because of the silicon brain Johny Srouji, now is at Apple for a decade and we see how its going
Again, this is a main device nowadays, people everyday use this , its something that you can count on...you cannot say "gotta start somewhere...is like when car industry innovated airbags but they weren't reliable at all and people got hurt...again, for prototype "gotta start somewhere" is ok, but when you charge a price, the consumers must rely on their devices daily

I get that you, repeatedly, wouldn’t call it innovation, but the dictionary does.

a new method, idea, product, etc.

The first iPhone was fantastically innovative… and garbage compared to what’s being done today. A product doesn’t have to pop onto the scene without any issues to be innovative.

 

[cmaier]

There was an e-reader (Readius) with a rollable display around 2008/2009, but they ended up going bankrupt. LG has recently released the OLED TV R. I just wonder how much farther along things could be if there was not a decade of seeming inertia that needed to be overcome.

The issue hasn’t been inertia - the issue is that, to gain traction, these things have to solve some problem better than other solutions. Samsung (and many other companies) have a tradition of developing technology and then just productizing without first identifying what problem they are trying to solve.

 

[pauloregan]

Apple wouldn't dare sell something like this as the year's new iphone. They may have to create a new innovation line that runs along side.

Apple customers have become so used to strong, reliable yet incremental improvement (nothing wrong with that) they may not risk a $ or two on a potential dud.

Looking back the last time Apple did that was the original Apple watch but that was a new product.

 

[DeepIn2U]

This rollable concept seems to have more commercial legs than the foldable phones, which are thick, heavy and besides the Z Flip and the Motorola Startac look like a solution searching for a problem.

Exactly this is what I’m looking forward to best of both worlds: small and large screens in a pocketable phone size.

 

[yabeweb]

This would be awesome. A device that can be the size of the phone but go to the size of an iPad Mini without a fold or double thickness would be amazing. It wouldn't be enough to make me ditch ios, but if the tech is there that be awesome for the future.

And half the battery life of a foldable....

This could fix some of the problems foldable phones have (crease)

Creating a new one with battery....

And props to early adopters for being even braver to test this kind of exciting prototype from the future.

Like Apple new and amazing Keyboard, those were tested by users too and then Apple reverted to the old way of making things WORK.

 

[chr1s60]

While Samsung has improved the fold, the biggest reason these aren't practical phones for most is the lack of durable screen. In an era of phones where screens are glass and have become quite scratch and crack resistant, the idea of my fingernail being able to scratch my screen is a joke to me at these prices. They will remain gimmicky and less practical until they can develop a stronger screen.

 

[AngerDanger]

I love that Oppo image. Always thought more marketing should vaguely foreboding.

 

[snipr125]

Meanwhile at Apple, notches are still a thing, and having a punch hole selfie camera and Face ID pill shaped cutout is going to be considered a ‘Pro’ feature on the 14 Pro models .

 

[DeepIn2U]

This could fix some of the problems foldable phones have (crease)

Although if it's anything like the Oppo concept, I can easily see debris getting stuck inside, leading to problems.

A gen 3 concept for a final prod-resembling this works

 

[chr1s60]

Gotta start somewhere. Without Samsung, we would still have 3.5” iPhones and 4gb storage for $1999
iPadOS is the result of no competition. Saw the same with intel before Ryzen

Competition takes two or more. You could make the same argument that without Apple, Samsung would still be making flip phones or blackberry type "smart phones" on a trash OS.

 

[Appleman3546]

The most shocking thing of this article is:

The existing Galaxy Z Flip 3 and Galaxy Z Fold 3 have been relatively successful additions to Samsung's smartphone family, and the company reportedly plans to ship over 10 million foldables in 2022 with successor models to the Flip 3 and Fold 3

I had no clue that foldable phones survived that horrific galaxy fold launch in 2019

 

[JosephAW]

By the time they get this figured out Apple be onto on screen contacts that we wear in our eye

 

[JosephAW]

Imagine trying to find a case for this device.

 

[alpi123]

Kudos to Samsung for trying to be first again. It's good to see something new rather than the same brick phone with spec bumps every year.

 

[yossi]

We don't fully know where these foldable and rollable phones will be in 5 years but I sure hope Apple isn't falling behind