Foldable Smart phones

For the past couple of years, Samsung pursued the development of foldable technology. In 2012 there were rumors, but they released a concept video for the technology in 2014 confirming that Samsung was seriously interested in developing the technology.

Today, November 7, 2018 at the annual developer conference in San Fransiscothey released information about their new flagship prototype unnamed but currently dubbed Galaxy X. This phone uses what Samsung is calling Infinity Flex Display. This phone is supposed to be the first in a series of foldable handsets, tablets and even laptops.

Unfolded the phone is the size of a 7.3" tablet, and is able to be folded into a smart phone almost like a wallet. From my understanding, there are two screens. The one on the inside is the foldable larger tablet screen, with an outside is smartphone sized screen on the front. The phone uses a hinge mechanism, and most likely a sensor to switch from screens and set orientation. The screen is designed to be "folded and unfolded repeatedly without any degradation" and able to be "folded and unfolded hundreds and thousands of times" (Denison).

Supposedly, the screen works with a S pen digital stylus, and comparable to a windows PC, able to run three applications at once. According to Hart, there are rumors the device will have Snapdragon 845 processor, 4-6GB RAM, and 256GB storage. Additionally, Hart expects there will be a 12 mega pixel camera including dual aperture capabilities. 


Shout out to David Nield , Aaron Brown  and Spencer Hart  at t3.com for the last paragraph of information. They are following this event closely and provide detailed information. The release date for this technology described in this article has not been released, yet though there have been reports of production and a prediction of a release in 2019. For other Samsung innovation check out the opening keynote from the Samsung Developer Conference of 2018 below:

There is also a break down of the Samsung Galaxy X launch event by T3 here: https://www.t3.com/news/samsung-galaxy-x-launch-live-stream-how-to-watch-it-today