Samsung, smartphone with foldable display arriving in 2017
Smartlet and will be called 7″ display inside a space traditionally occupied by 5-inch devices. Devices with folding screens will come in 2017 according to new rumors leaked.
Samsung was the producer, most of all, he believed in the large display. Launched the fashion of so-called phablet even when the devices for more than five ” were considered extreme, and could point to the same feature in the course of next year. According to Korean news site ETNews, the company is preparing to release a device defined internally as ” Smartlet “, the size of a smartphone but with a 7″ display.
The problem of devices with large displays is that it is hard to insert them in your pocket. But thanks to the proprietary technology of flexible displays, on which Samsung is officially at work for years, could be made of folding terminal by a way of the book: when folded upon itself the Smartlet provides an interactive surface to 5 inches, but when opened the diagonal of the display expands until it reaches that of a typical tablet. The source speaks of a maximum of 7”.
According to sources in the production of the particular device volumes will be launched in the coming months, with an expected commercial launch no earlier than 2017. The company will use its own technologies developed by its display division, whose design work is now under way for about three years. At the time of writing the Smartlet it is known to insiders as ” Foldable Valley ” and was somehow anticipated by the Samsung Display in January.
The director Lee Chang-hoon has held during a call to investors that ” the development of foldable OLED display is going according to plan with the goal of producing the technology in mass and release the first products in discussion with partners. ”
Samsung said in the past that we would see the first folding devices in the course of 2016, while SamMobile last year argued that the company was testing the technology, with a release expected in January.
The site used the term ” Valley Project ” to define the project, in line with the latest rumors reported by ETNews. Under the shell of the first prototypes booze SoC of different categories: either the Snapdragon 820 high-end, the more modest Snapdragon 620. ” Smartlet ” possessed 3 GB of RAM, a microSD slot and a non-removable battery. But the concept behind the original prototype is not new even in the words declared officially by the Asian companies.
Samsung talks about with folding display devices at least from CES 2013 event in which he showed the smartphone with flexible display Youm.
At the time, the company stated that it could have made the display of extremely thin plastic films and much more resistant to bending of the glass, though still not able to fold as sheets of paper.
On the other side of the fence, we do not stand by LG, which has recently shown a very interesting concept flexible display.
Among these, a model able to be rolled up for transport and a 1mm television capable of magnetically engage the wall. In short, the future seems to be more flexible than ever, and that future could be very, very close.
