2017 should be the long - awaited
year foldable smartphone / tablet hybrids start cropping up in the real world, from Samsung, LG and other OEMs, prospectively hitting stores in limited numbers before taking over the industry... eventually.
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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.
Analysts and bloggers have speculated for
years foldable phones were the next major form factor for the
smartphone.
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 company is also working on another
smartphone with a
foldable display set to be released next
year.
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.
The concept of a
foldable smartphone has been around for a few
years now.
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.
Foldable smartphones are not exactly a novelty anymore since the ZTE Axon M released last year made sure that the Chinese manufacturer was the first one to deliver a foldable smartphone to the
Foldable smartphones are not exactly a novelty anymore since the ZTE Axon M released last
year made sure that the Chinese manufacturer was the first one to deliver a
foldable smartphone to the
foldable smartphone to the market.
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.
Huawei is working on a
foldable smartphone that it plans to launch sometime next
year, according to a report from CNET.
Instead, a new report says that Samsung's first
foldable smartphone will be the next flagship to be unveiled this
year, which means the launch is coming much sooner than most people thought.
Earlier, the Korean media reports noted that Samsung has planned on releasing 5 flagship
smartphones next
year, including a Galaxy X,
foldable phone.
After
years of behind the scenes iteration, Samsung will reportedly announce its first
foldable smartphone later this
year, according to a new report from the Korean Herald.
Interestingly at the launch of Galaxy Note 8 in Korea in September, we got to know that Samsung too will be releasing a
foldable smartphone next
year.
LG unveiled a TV that could fold up like paper, and ZTE exhibited the ZTE Axon M, the
foldable smartphone it announced late last
year.
A report last
year said that Apple chose LG Display to go forward with its
foldable iPhone plans rather than Samsung so that its biggest rival in the
smartphone business would not catch wind of Apple's designs.
Samsung has already confirmed that it is planning on introducing a
foldable Galaxy
smartphone next
year.
Apple might already be in talks with suppliers, but analysts are expecting Apple's
foldable smartphone to come out at least two
years after Samsung's, since demand could bottleneck production.
ZTE had introduced the
foldable Axon M
smartphone back in October, and we've managed to get some hands - on time with this phone during this
year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.
The world's largest
smartphone maker has been teasing a
foldable phone for a while now and we may see the launch happen sometime later this
year.
It's being speculated that Samsung will begin manufacturing its
foldable smartphone by November of this
year.
The company also has a history of chasing industry - first solutions, having recently proclaimed itself to be the first OEM that commercialized a
foldable smartphone while announcing the Axon M, so rushing a 5G phone to the market would be in line with its M.O. even though the next generation of wireless networks isn't likely to be available in the majority of the U.S. until late 2019 and is only expected to be commercialized on a national level more than two
years from now.
Next
year instead of the Galaxy S10, Samsung's flagship
smartphone will be called the Galaxy X. However, the leak goes against previous rumours related to the
foldable Samsung
smartphone, which is also supposed to go by the name Galaxy X.
Now, according to reports surfacing from South Korea, it appears that LG Display will be working together with the iPhone maker in achieving this
foldable smartphone design after the launch of next
year's iPhone 7S.
What's a bit frustrating is that every
year there are always reports of Samsung finally releasing a
foldable smartphone.
Thanks to numerous patent filing in the last couple of
years, we already know that Samsung has been working on a
foldable smartphone.
A new report is claiming that Samsung is planning to start production of a its prototype
foldable Android
smartphone later this
year.
With or without Samsung's Galaxy S8 and Galaxy X
foldable smartphone (without, most likely), this
year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is shaping up pretty much as eventful and exciting as always.
For
years, we've heard rumors about a Samsung
foldable smartphone called the Galaxy X.
After (way too) many
years of waiting, filled with frustrating pre-production hurdles, endless R&D work, the occasional mouth - watering demonstration and more delays than we care to count, a major
smartphone manufacturer could finally be ready to announce the world's first commercial
foldable device.
A lot had been said about the
foldable smartphone Samsung Galaxy X towards the end of 2016 and early this
year, more claims surfaced suggesting that the phone will be out in Q3 / Q4 2017.
«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.
One of which is a
foldable smartphone, something that is unlikely to launch this
year but will possibly be the future of
smartphone technology.
Next
year would probably be the
year of
foldable smartphones with many OEMs trying to make this concept a reality.
Last
year, we reported about a Samsung Galaxy X
foldable smartphone that is being -LSB-...]
Back in November 2016, a report from South Korea pointed out that both Samsung and LG will be working on new
foldable smartphones this
year, but there was no mention of the rumored Samsung Galaxy X.
Samsung reportedly produced a number of dual - screen
smartphones made up of two OLED displays joined by a hinge this
year to test the promise and capabilities of a
foldable device.
While Apple is expected to come out with its first phone without the home button, rumored to be called the iPhone X, Samsung is said to finally come out with a
foldable smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy X / Galaxy X1, which might be launched by the end of the
year.
But Samsung could unveil the first - ever
foldable smartphone even before that
year since it's rumored
foldable «Galaxy X» phone has been popping up in rumor mills recently.
While we still find quite a few apps that doesn't support 18:9 aspect ratio, the developers might take a couple of
years to get used to the usual aspect ratios on
foldable smartphones.
«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.
Rumors of a
foldable Samsung
smartphone have been going around for quite some time now since the company has been seen working on it for
years.
«With new form factors entering the marketplace next
year to entice consumers,
smartphone manufacturers will find themselves locked in a fierce battle with one another as they jostle to win market share for their new
smartphone models featuring dual - edge curved and
foldable AMOLED displays.»
In 2017, Samsung may showcase a «near production» prototype
smartphone with a
foldable display (Project Valley), which we reported exclusively last
year.
In recent
years, however, handset makers, including Apple, have been eyeing ways to reinvent
smartphone designs and they've nearly all come to the conclusion that a
foldable screen could prove appealing.
Last
year, Samsung filed a patent application for a
foldable smartphone.
While we are seeing the reports of
foldable phones since 2011, the tech giant last
year presented the
foldable phone prototypes, it is clear that folding
smartphones are no longer being taken as a gimmick.