New Samsung handset: Innovation hinges on folding screen

A model holds a Samsung Galaxy Fold smartphone to her face, during a media preview event in London, Tuesday April 16, 2019. Samsung is hoping the innovation of smartphones with folding screens giving a large interactive space or smaller usual screen, reinvigorates the market.

Is the Galaxy Fold a gimmick to help sell more smartphones in a slowing market or a true breakthrough that will change how we use our devices? The South Korean electronics company this week offered the media a hands-on preview ahead of the release in the U.S. this month, and the first impression is that a folding screen in some circumstances might be a useful innovation — but at a cost of almost $2,000 it won’t be a mass market product anytime soon.

Samsung spent nearly five years working on the hinge, which went through more than 1,000 prototypes. It uses cogs and gears to give it a smooth feel and has two open positions. First, it unfolds to 140 degrees — handy if you want to put it down on your desk but still need to angle part of the screen for a video call, for example. Bend it further and the screen silently and solidly opens to a flat position. To close the phone, you click it out of the open position and snap the sides shut.

Source: Tech Daily Report (techdailyreport.net)

*sigh*

Aye but wait four years and they’ll be fifty quid down the second hand shops. Just hold tight. That’s my mantra. Or one of them at least.

its a flex phone. shows people you have money to just throw away...

Hard pass. There comes a time when you just need to prioritize spending money on something like this. It’s a foldable iPad with a mobile chip.

Not yet, just look at Tesla

I’ll buy it; I heard it comes with 4 wheels and an engine.

Cool idea, but not for $2000. Pass for me.

Here's my prediction where you fold the screen is going to be a weak point and it's not going to hold up very well. And a $2,000 nobody's going to buy it. But I am looking forward to the next Generations of this technology at a cheaper price.

If you got money to burn, go for it. It's your money, as long as you're not committing any crimes.

Safe to say it won’t be.

P30pro all

I've been following this thread or should I say geometric progression in cryptographic terms with great care none of you can break this chain without me knowing and when you do I'm going to blab to the one who does or to the others competitor but I here is my email

$2,000? : P

This horseless carriage may be a useful innovation in some instances, but at $2000, it probably won't be a product for the masses.

I think it’s kinda cool. Expensive as shit, but definitely interesting

Probably not: The world's median per-capita income is $2,920.

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