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Samsung intends to sell a Galaxy Note using a foldable screen in 2018

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Samsung is going to launch an email smartphone by using a screen that folds this year, that would likely be the earliest accessible to feature this type of innovation.

Koh Dong-jin, president of Samsung’s mobile business, said the business is setting its eyes on 2018 to release a smartphone featuring a bendable OLED screen technology, but he explained there are lots of hurdles it’s got to overcome, leaving room to rebel the making if those issues are not solved.

Koh said: “As the head from the business, I can say our current goal is next year. Whenever we can overcome some damage to sure, we shall launch the product or service.”

Analysts said mass-producing a foldable phone with top tech features along with a thin body will take time. Koh didn’t elaborate precisely what the problems facing consumerisation in the foldable screen technology were.

When Samsung will release its first foldable phone, previously dubbed the “Galaxy X”, has been a question in the market since Samsung first showcased a flexible type of display prototype called Youm in 2013. For around the past two years, we have seen rumours that Samsung is all around exhibiting its first folding smartphones.

South Korean rival LG gained patents for a foldable tablet and displayed a practical concept device a few months ago which could fold to establish a phone-shaped device or unfold to manufacture a a greater tablet. Chinese rival Lenovo introduced an equivalent 7.8in foldable tablet device, the Folio, which converts in a device that has a 5.5in screen. But neither LG nor Lenovo publicly stated a timeframe for that consumer release of a foldable product.

Samsung has used its bendable screen technology in numerous smartphones and televisions to develop curved displays displays for its Galaxy S and Galaxy Note devices and curved TVs. Additionally, it sold a big, 78in TV that will convert from curved to flat and to come back by bending the screen in the edges.

For years the very idea of a machine that could be both a tablet as well as a smartphone, altering its form to supply the user best at different times, has long been the ultimate goal of technology. As the screen technology has been in spot to enable it for countless years, at the least in prototype form, longevity on the displays as well as inflexibility of other necessary components has held the notion back with the market.

Analysts are sceptical we have could be perfected inside of a short time, but sci-fi, along with the recent HBO series Westworld, has proved how the style could work should the technology be ironed out.