In their labs, the Smartphone manufacturer research in completely new Displays that can fold or even roll. So far such a kind of digital paper was just Science Fiction, but in the coming year Falthandys to actually come on the market. Samsung had shown in November at a developer conference for the first time to the public a prototype. In contrast to the earlier popular flip-phones, where the top of the screen and below the keyboard was, it can be folded with the device, even the screen apart. The Smartphone is the Tablet. It is to be Male “hundreds of thousands” of collapse, said Samsung Manager Justin Denison.

Much more is about the “Samsung Flex” of course, it is still not known. At the presentation it was only for a short time. It was relatively bulky and had a separate Display on the back. How the Interplay of this and the drop down screen should work, have yet to reveal themselves. Because “in the coming months” to start the mass production, the device could come in 2019 in the trade.

Chinese are still more than Samsung

further, the company is Royole. The Chinese Display specialist has already presented a Smartphone called Flexpai. It has an OLED screen that can be bent in the middle. In the folded state, the diagonal is 7.8 inches. It holds, according to Royole 200 000 folds. The device can be ordered in a developer version already for 1388 Euro, the delivery is yet to start at the end of December 2018.

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This is also a Phase in which there was hardly any big innovations in Smartphones ends. In the past year, the cameras have become more powerful and the display is larger. Almost all manufacturers try to use the entire Front for the screen. The long-established Central control knob on the front disappears, the fingerprint sensor is replaced by the face detection. Now, only the notch, those recess interferes at the top, in the front camera, speaker and Sensors, and which protrudes on the Display as a black concavity. In the coming year could change the manufacturers such as Huawei are experimenting with a hole in the Display. Also, Samsung’s new flagship, the Galaxy S10 could get a camera hole.

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