SAMSUNG GALAXY X: THE BRAND'S FIRST FOLDABLE PHONE
Samsung revealed something huge: its first foldable screen, which opens clamshell-style and flattens out for a tablet-size display. The infinity flex display, as the tech is called, is an entirely new direction for Samsung smartphones that required development of new materials and processes to make it functional.
SAMSUNG GALAXY X: 8 YEARS IN THE MAKING
The idea of 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 mobile device.It could fold out from a phone-sized screen to a tablet-sized one,showing Samsung's ambitions for the technology. Now, technology hasn't advanced quite this far, so don't expect the Samsung Galaxy X to be just a folding screen - but the vision is an interesting one.
Samsung revealed something huge: its first foldable screen, which opens clamshell-style and flattens out for a tablet-size display. The infinity flex display, as the tech is called, is an entirely new direction for Samsung smartphones that required development of new materials and processes to make it functional.
SAMSUNG GALAXY X: 8 YEARS IN THE MAKING
The idea of 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 mobile device.It could fold out from a phone-sized screen to a tablet-sized one,showing Samsung's ambitions for the technology. Now, technology hasn't advanced quite this far, so don't expect the Samsung Galaxy X to be just a folding screen - but the vision is an interesting one.
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