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Samsung Rumored to Launch Fully Bendable Smartphones in 2017
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On the flip side - it could easily be used on a smart watch type of device where it's more about a flexible/curved display than an actual "fold"
nah, I prefer a solid working OS in a Mac environment. For me, a Phone is still something I use for calling, checking my mail and for various other "small" things. For serious work I prefer a big screen with some solid computer power.
True, the idea of "stretching" out a screen to make it bigger looks and sounds cool, but it will take some generations to evolve until it could truly replace a larger screen laptop device where you can run native products on.
And all the brands will have similar devices by the time it all would works really well....
Granted, again, this all looks nice and cool, but I doubt it will be a game changer straight from version 1. The "real" game changer will be in bendable screens for general use, like on chairs, tables, or whole walls decorated with bendable screens.
I don't actually laugh out loud at many posts here, but this one got me.
Myself I like the hardware, but if I owned one, I doubt I would use the features of the edge itself.
Why would Apple go back? The 6 and 6 S were already bendable from what I googled.
I've been waiting for this ever since smartphones came out, and things shifted from phones getting smaller to screens getting larger. I'd like a screen on the outside for quick immediate views, and an unfolding screen in 2 or 3 segments, each sized to around Apple's 4" screen devices. I think Microsoft had a concept with two rigid panels with small bezels and a hinge.
I think any really new form factor is likely to come out in Android first, since there are many different companies, which can each try varying things, and often have many different low volume models, instead of Apple's very small number of models with quite high volume. But hopefully after the idea has been proven, and gone through iteration, it'll be available broadly.
I think any really new form factor is likely to come out in Android first, since there are many different companies, which can each try varying things, and often have many different low volume models, instead of Apple's very small number of models with quite high volume. But hopefully after the idea has been proven, and gone through iteration, it'll be available broadly.
Immediate reactions are "that seems a really interesting concept, certainly something different". Immediately followed by "how would that actually work realistically, what would the screen quality be, would it be practical and what benefit would it provide?". For now it seems a bit of a gimmick. The difference with Apple is that usually they take emerging technologies, bring them together, advance them and don't release the product until they can make them work properly. By the sound of it this is still likely to be very much work in progress for Samsung.
It wasn't an ad, of course. It was a video used at an industry show.
That's partly why it was done in a style that lightly mocked consumer stereotypes.
(In this case, the tech wannabe, and the tech groupie.)
You can't take it seriously. I thought it was pretty humorous myself
Just the opposite...
Since Samsung appears to be beating Apple to this punch and there's nothing to directly spin "Samesung copying Apple" it's a "gimmick"... soon to be followed by "useless", "99% don't need" and the usual anti-<everyone not named Apple> punches.
I recall how much of a "gimmick", "useless", "99% don't need" PLUS "fragmentation", "one handed use", "pants with bigger pockets", and on and on was spun against phones with bigger screens when Samsung was pushing those and Apple still clung to 4" or less.
I'm still looking for all those pants with bigger pockets and, apparently, all of our hands grew.
You've just won.
hmmmm, Samsung may 'make' the technology, but it's Apple that (for the most part) design everything that enables these products to work as they do. If Samsung were so innovative then the phone and tablet market wouldn't have been basically clones of iPhones and iPads over the past 10 years. About time Samsung brought something NEW to the table.
Ahhh there's the key- 'rolled up' not folded. It will be interesting to see how this is implemented if it ever comes to market.
This^. Proof of concept helps sell components to other companies as well. That's my theory on why Samsung throws everything at the market they can, the component division uses the product division to show off their components.
I'm not a fan of holding an Edge phone. It just doesn't feel comfortable to me or that I have a good grip. They are nicely built, but the design doesn't grab me.
Call me a party pooper, but I just get a bad feeling the durability of such a thing would be horrible for everyday use. I guess we'll see given time.
BTW... seems like this rumor went around last year too about the time a new iPhone came out. This is not the first time we've seen this.
BTW... seems like this rumor went around last year too about the time a new iPhone came out. This is not the first time we've seen this.
Oh my gosh - you're right. I am sure they haven't even thought about that. I am sure that they've been working on the screen with no consideration to batteries and components for the rest of the phone. You should totally call them!