Author: Stephen Johnson / Source: Big Think
- Samsung has been developing a flexible, foldable smartphone for years.
- The prototype unveiled Wednesday isn’t quite the finished product some had hoped to see, but it offered a glimpse at how its long-awaited foldable phone will work when released, likely in 2019.
- Samsung also announced other device upgrades, including a new user interface and changes to its virtual assistant Bixby.
Samsung unveiled a prototype of its new flexible display and other product upgrades at its annual developers conference in San Francisco on Wednesday.
The South Korean tech giant didn’t introduce a finished foldable smartphone, despite recent rumors, but Samsung did briefly display a prototype device with the company’s new Infinity Flex display, along with several other displays that will be available soon: the Infinity U, V and O displays.
The foldable prototype is, essentially, a tablet when open and a regular smartphone when folded. It features an exterior display on which users can make calls and use apps when the device is folded, as well as a larger 7.3-inch display that can be used when the phone is opened…
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