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Samsung Shows Off Prototype Smartphone With Foldable Display
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Dude, You are clueless, Samsung has been working on this for years, there’s rumours about this phone that date to the Galaxy S2 and S3 days. You should be the one doing the research.
If Samsung prices these anywhere under a maxed out xs-max then it will sell very well. If its done well of course.Better design than previous dual screen foldable phones with a seam in the middle, but it will likely be a niche product since most will not be able to afford it.
On the other hand, foldable/rollable large displays might have wider use cases. Likely more advertising displays on curved surfaces. Just the future I was looking for. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy
The one article states it will be released in... wait for it... 2013.
Ass fell off.
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A mini laptop? Where’s the keyboard then?
I just thought of one traffic safety revolution; wrapping the pillars in the car with this thin film, foldable display and projecting the outside on them through cameras. No more blind spots, less accidents and easier parking. There are so many uses the mind boggles.
Oh dear, you’d best go and see a doctor about that condition?
also I’d advise to read my post.
They are just rushing things because Huwaei said they would release one in 2018.
You’ll see there will not be a release in 2019. One year from now you’ll say: that b#&@h was right.
Just lies to steer up a hype.
They teased the device but didn’t show it off. They have kept it under wraps. They were just showing off what hey could do.
It’s nice that Samsung are pushing the boundaries of what we expect a smartphone to be, but I don’t see a problem with existing phones that this device solves.
On the other hand their attempts to design a smartphone UX that relates to device size in 2018 is worthy of a mention. Android and iOS still use a UI that was designed for small phones and then blown up when large screens became popular. A smartphone should be 100% usable with one hand, and Apple’s fudge of double-tapping the home button to get to to the top of the screen is not long-term solution.
By moving all interactions to the lower 2/3 of the phone screen, Samsung are well aware of this problem. The notification shade should have died a long time ago. Bottom-up notifications are the one feature that still hasn’t been picked from the corpse of Palm.
On the other hand their attempts to design a smartphone UX that relates to device size in 2018 is worthy of a mention. Android and iOS still use a UI that was designed for small phones and then blown up when large screens became popular. A smartphone should be 100% usable with one hand, and Apple’s fudge of double-tapping the home button to get to to the top of the screen is not long-term solution.
By moving all interactions to the lower 2/3 of the phone screen, Samsung are well aware of this problem. The notification shade should have died a long time ago. Bottom-up notifications are the one feature that still hasn’t been picked from the corpse of Palm.
Split screen on the phone, pip, DEX and now foldable phones to combine a phone and tablet in one device. If this takes off, it's going to be massive and it's one of those things i'd leave Apple for as Apple seem very very slow to adopt anything these days. Apple year increases the price and 'innovates' with memoji or a colour difference. Other companies are really making progress every year whilst Apple will be slow to adopt.
No, that’s not the point, although I do understand that it’s your point.
Possibly, but why they did it is also a different point.
My point, in response to an op claiming “Apple does this too” is that they don’t, and certainly not with a major new tech announcement. In 2007 Steve Jobs didn’t take the stage, turn off the lights, show us a glance of something new, and tell us it was coming out later. Not Apple’s style. And regardless of delivery (AirPower, for example), Apple events show us the whole product.
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You mean like 64bit smartphone processor, 7nm smartphone processor, fully secured faceID, airpods, app store concept, the whole smartphone concept etc etc...This is innovation that far exceeds the notch. Apple will adopt this in 2022-24 when Samsung minimized all the risks and people embrace the phone/tablet feature/function.
MR forum members will hate on this until Apple introduces something similar 4-6 years from now, and claim innovation
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The sentence is true. What’s ridiculous is that Apple showed off a product they hadn’t yet gotten to work, which I’m not defending. I’m debating product reveals, not product delivery.Do you have any idea how ridiculous that sounds
Apple hs a number of patents relating to folding devices. As a result, they may have some prototypes in the labs and importantly, they might be very well aware of the technology needed to make this work day after day after day...
I don’t really see these things as being that popular. Even though Samsung had the lights very low you could still see how chunky this thing is. For a device the same size as it is folded up, it will have 3 times the amount of display components in it. Then of course the bigger foldable screen would need a bigger battery to power it for a decent amount of time. It’s going to be awkward to have protective cases on this device too....
Given how finicky circuits are to even a little bit of repeated bending, and that plastics and rubbers are finite in their bending ability, I am not sold on the long-term reliability of this device (says a guy who updates every two years).
There's a reason they did the demo in the dark... yuck.
The sentence is true. What’s ridiculous is that Apple showed off a product they hadn’t yet gotten to work, which I’m not defending. I’m debating product reveals, not product delivery.
"AirPower was shown in full, not teased in some partial reveal"
AirpPower was not shown in full, it was teased in a partial reveal.
Shown in full would have been a working model on stage, demonstratably charging three different devices.
Edit: Randomly placed on the charger surface
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