Samsung only copied the folding aspect. The unfolding is their own discovery.
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Samsung Shows Off Prototype Smartphone With Foldable Display
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Samsung only copied the folding aspect. The unfolding is their own discovery.
You won’t go anywhere in here with logic and facts, it doesn’t work like that. The magic key is aluminium.
They probably didn't want Apple stealing it's tech and design ideas before they officially launched the product.
Wake me when this is something consumers can actually buy.
Yeah, let’s just ignore that Samsung wishes they could be in Apple’s mobile computing position.
Apple destroys Samsung in this space. Destroys.
And your analysis of Apple products being crippled is just more nonsense hate with zero fact. In 2018, Apple sold 218M iPhones at an average price of $765 for $166,699,000,000 in sales. Apple makes double the profit of any company in the world. They have a working strategy and are the envy of the tech world and business world.
Maybe people buy because of their leading silicon, the FaceID tech that revolutionized biometric security and was copied, the top notch cameras, the fantastic security and support, iOS, the design, or the whole package. One thing is for sure, no premium smartphone is bought more than the iPhone.
Innovation isn’t just throwing out some junk that is essentially a flip phone design, likely too think and clumsy to be anything meaningful.
Look at Samsung even try copy the Apple keynote format. It’s actually sad.
Incorrect, the device I saw which he held up WAS thick, regardless of the intent. The end product he showed was indeed thick. So again, my comment stands.
Samsung didn’t say anything about a product shipping, they said the display tech would be ready. Big difference.
Too true that, I want to see a foldable windscreen old panel... Apparently they've been around for years??
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Actually they said the device will be in mass production in the next few months, take from that what you will.
The tech is ready for what, so others can use it before them. Samsung was the first to use its own developed AMOLED, what makes you believe their do not have a product near ready to production. There were many reports stating this product would be called Galaxy X.
I'm super excited to see where this goes. Glad to see Samsung putting this out. Can't wait to see how other companies start putting this to use.
From 2012. Many prototypes exist. Samsung have made a prototype, nothing more, like many manufacturers before them. NEC/Plastic Logic in particular. And in fact I was talking about flexible screens used in other tech. The technology is not new, not solely developed and owned by samsung.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20526577
https://news.sky.com/story/flexpai-phone-features-worlds-first-foldable-screen-11541711
I will not be throwing my money at Apple in any fashion. I’m their biggest critic.
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Bone crushing, world dominating innovation at its best. Like I've said before, when Samsung innovates the whole industry benefits. Meanwhile at Apple... Updates that brick hardware, and power mats that will never see the light of day....aaaaaand...Animojis . Lol
Hmm...that’s not what I read on the Verge. I read that the display panel will be ready. Putting it into a workable product is another thing. And if Samsung had a device ready to go into production they wouldn’t be showing off a prototype onstage, they’d be showing off the real thing.
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Hyperbole much? Do you work for Samsung?
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If they had a product ready for production they’d be showing it off on stage not a prototype shown in the dark.
It’s like me saying Every current smartphone is based on the original iPhone...oh wait, they are.
We are where we are...the Note offers nothing new versus other premium phones, forget Apple.
Umm... and why should I be excited about getting a cylinder for a phone exactly?
I am perfectly fine about my iphone x’s form factor and my sis is perfectly fine about her galaxy s8’s form factor.
It is thin to put it in pocket and it shows contents perfectly. What does cylinder form gives any benefit to us?
C'mon. Do you really think one of the top supply chain providers isn't working on a functioning consumer end product from their own R&D innovations?
You mean how Apple patented rounded corners? Am I even “allowed” to say the word Apple out loud without being in trial?
Like the idea.
Phone plus Mini built into one easily pocketable device.
Really looking forward to see how this rolls out.
Phone plus Mini built into one easily pocketable device.
Really looking forward to see how this rolls out.
I’d get excited about this, but a couple months... not soon enough, Samsung, we’ll be at war by then.
With iPhone X the display conmponents are rolled inward, this portion is usually not used for input entry. This is the reason why many notch designs have a chin as well. What this is a usable portion of the screen that is foldable, there is a difference. Samsung mentioned about the longevity of the hinge/foldable area.
Once could say that Samsung has been making foldable screen for awhile with its infinity edge display well before iPhone X. Maybe it was a design decision on each companies part, one choose to make a true bezeless sides with a forehead and chin, while the other has a near bezeless design with a notch. Varity is the spice of life.
But they stated they are going into mass production within the next several months.
The foldable display will be a game changer such as the 2007 iPhone was.
Sure the recent smartphones definetely look like the original iPhone
The Note has all the greatest hardware + useful software features in one package, including a Pen which most premium phones lack. No other Android comes close with what Samsung is offering nowadays.