Citing industry sources, the report says the Korean giant plans to come up with the foldable display's final design in March, mass produce panels in September, and ultimately start mass production of
the foldable smartphone in November.
In fact, 2017 is the first to give
us a foldable smartphone in the shape of ZTE Axon M, but like ZTE, many OEMs were having their first go at these new technologies.
A fresh patent has popped up which shows that the company continues to work on technology for the foldable smartphone, thus adding fuel to the rumors that it will indeed release
a foldable smartphone in 2017.
Samsung definitely still has
a foldable smartphone in the pipeline, and so does LG, both companies currently gunning for H2 2017 launches.
Samsung's president of mobile business Koh Dong - jin has confirmed that the South Korean phone maker is planning to launch
a foldable smartphone in 2018.
Samsung's president of mobile business Koh Dong - jin says the company plans to launch
its foldable smartphone in 2018, thats is, if they can «overcome some problems.»
«Samsung has
the foldable smartphone in its roadmap for the Note series and is currently working to solve a series of hurdles before unveiling it next year.
If Samsung does release
a foldable smartphone in 2018, the South Korean phone maker could disrupt the smartphone industry and become the leader of the foldable smartphone race.
«Samsung has
the foldable smartphone in its roadmap for the Note series and is currently working to solve a series of hurdles before unveiling it next year,» Koh said.
A recent patent filing by Samsung also confirmed that there is
a foldable smartphone in the making, with the likes of face, palm, and fingerprint authentication being worked on.
The ZTE Axon M is launching through AT&T on Wednesday, November 1st, the wireless carrier announced earlier today, in addition to reiterating that it's set to be the exclusive retailer of the Chinese company «s
foldable smartphone in the United States.
When Samsung introduced Note 8 last August, it also teased the possibility of launching
a foldable smartphone in 2018.
Huawei was the second manufacturer to launch a smartphone with in - screen fingerprint sensor after Vivo, but we hope the company will be the first one to launch
a foldable smartphone in the market.
As of now, there is no information about the availability of theAxon M
foldable smartphone in other markets.
According to industries on the 13th, Samsung Electronics and Samsung Display have set a goal of releasing prototype of
foldable Smartphone in this third quarter in order to verify quality of foldable Smartphone by producing thousands of prototypes.
But, Huawei believes that the next smartphone design revolution comes when we start seeing
foldable smartphones in the market.
Companies including Vivo and Xiaomi launched handsets with flexible screens in 2016, and many other manufacturers have plans to develop curved or
foldable smartphones in the near future.
Not exact matches
ZTE's Axon M
foldable smartphone is official
in the company's home country as of Tuesday and is now also making its way to select European markets, the Chinese consumer electronics manufacturer said.
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In December?
But instead of being a
foldable one - screen tablet that can flex and fold
in the middle, the latest evidence suggests that Samsung Galaxy X will be a dual - screen phone just like the
foldable dual - screen
smartphone ZTE Axon M.
Samsung intends to introduce a new
smartphone in 2015 with
foldable screen.
Related: — Samsung Galaxy X Now Looks Like A Dual - Screen
Smartphone Not
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Foldable Tablet Phones
In 2018
Tech Times has previously reported that Samsung may show off its
foldable smartphone to a select few
in a «behind the doors» launch.
Buzz is that it really focused on protecting security of information so that information regarding its next new product not getting leaked as it even did not introduce its
foldable Smartphone to its partners that had participated
in development of this product.
As
foldable Smartphone is an innovative product that did not exist before, it believes that it will be able to expand related markets
in the future after drawing positive experiences from
foldable Smartphone users.
A 2020 launch for the
foldable iPhone will fall
in line with this trend, as previous reports have pegged a
foldable Samsung Galaxy
smartphone to be released by December or by early next year.
Many consider the
foldable design to be the next major change
in smartphone technology.
Rest easy knowing this: If you rush out to buy one of the first
foldable smartphones on the market, it won't be long before you see apps
in the Play Store that take advantage of its unique capabilities.
It has already incorporated elements of the technology
in its curved Galaxy Edge
smartphones, and one industry analyst described Samsung's goal of releasing a
foldable device next year as «quite realistic.»
The problem is when you have folding screens but the components are not
foldable and
in a separate hard casing, which removes a lot of the elegance of devices like
smartphones.
The world's biggest
smartphone maker is aiming to release a device with a
foldable display
in 2018, its head of mobile Koh Dong - jin said
in Seoul on Tuesday.
Before the iPhone launch event, DJ Koh, CEO of Samsung has confirmed the launch of
foldable Galaxy
smartphone in 2018.
In December Patently Apple posted a report titled «A Leading Supplier of
Foldable Display Technology Confirms Five Tech Companies are Testing
Foldable Smartphones.»
Back
in October, Huawei's CEO Richard Yu told CNET that the company has a «working sample» for a
foldable smartphone.
One of my favorite Samsung
smartphone designs was found
in a granted design patent published
in early January by the U.S. Patent Office regarding a «fold - out»
foldable smartphone design.
According to the report, Huawei's
foldable smartphone could be released sometime
in 2018.
Samsung has been working on
foldable displays for a number of years, and the South Korean giant might finally be ready to showcase its first completely flexible
smartphone in 2018.
It's hoping that the successful launch of the Galaxy S9 will keep things moving along
in the interim while a planned
foldable smartphone could provide growth
in the future.
«Google Invents Next - Gen Radar - Based
In - Air Gesturing System Main Samsung Wins Major Design Patents for Future
Smartphones with Massive Wide
Foldable Displays»
There have been reports
in the past few months that claim that Apple is internally working on a
foldable smartphone that could be released as early as 2020.
They are constantly pushing to find the «next big thing»
in the
smartphone world, as can be seen
in rumors about Galaxy X, which could be the first
foldable smartphone.
According to a report from ETNews, Samsung intended to begin production of a prototype phone
in the third quarter of 2017,
in order to «verify quality of
foldable smartphone by producing thousands of prototypes.»
While discussing short - to - mid term advancements
in mobile, Samsung said it intends to, «differentiate its
smartphones by adopting cutting edge technologies, such as
foldable OLED displays.
Latest rumors about Samsung's first
foldable phone say the device will sport a 7.3 - inch OLED display, which can be folded
in half for its
smartphone configuration.
ZTE, Huawei's arch rival
in the
smartphone business, already launched a
foldable phone
in the form of the Axon M which will be made available through AT&T
in the US
in the coming week.
Samsung has considered flexible screens
in the past and concept ad made a few years ago shows how a
foldable smartphone could work.
Keep
in mind that as Samsung approaches the tenth iteration of its flagship
smartphone series next year that there's the potential of the
foldable phone concept materializing that same year.
This information comes after rumours earlier this year that stated that Samsung is looking to bring out a
foldable smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy X, at the end of this year or early
in 2019.
Koh's comments were
in response to questions from reporters about Samsung's roadmap for hardware innovation compared to its Chinese rivals who have already brought
in - display fingerprint sensors and
foldable smartphones to market.
This patent of the
foldable smartphone got filed back
in...