SAMSUNG Confirms New Release at WMC 2018
The idea of a foldable phone isn’t new to Samsung, in fact way back in 2011 the company showed off a prototype of exactly that.
The device looked chunky and awkward, but even back then it somewhat worked, remaining intact after 100,000 folds, with only a 6% drop in brightness at the center, where all the folding action happened.
This clearly wasn’t a commercial product, but later that year Samsung launched a concept video of a fully bendable (and transparent) mobile device, that could fold out from a phone-sized screen to a tablet-sized one, showing Samsung's ambitions for the technology.
Taken from a Samsung patent for foldable smartphones found by Let’s Go Digital, these images show a foldable handset design that’s worse than ZTE’s.
The Axon M’s two phones line up to form a tablet-like device. Sort of. Samsung’s creation is even uglier. When in an open position, the device looks like someone placed two similarly sized phones next to each other. The frame joining the two displays is made of metal, so it’s not part of the screen.
This is absolutely not the foldable smartphone design we’re looking for. So if the Galaxy X ends up looking like this, then Samsung is doomed. Well, not in the actual sense of the world. But the company will be doomed to miss out on the chance of a lifetime: introducing a new smartphone form factor that nobody has, not even Apple, and that’s actually appealing.
The Axon M’s two phones line up to form a tablet-like device. Sort of. Samsung’s creation is even uglier. When in an open position, the device looks like someone placed two similarly sized phones next to each other. The frame joining the two displays is made of metal, so it’s not part of the screen.
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