Modern folding smartphones have an Achilles heel – the displays are made of plastic and can therefore be easily scratched. According to the Twitter account Ice Universe Samsung’s future folding smartphone will have a glass display.
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The Twitter account was often right in the past with revelations from the technology industry. Even in the current case, Ice Universe does not name a source for the information. The Twitter account shows a photo of a foldable smartphone, which is said to be the successor to the Galaxy Fold. Samsung itself had that Device announced vaguely shortly before Christmas 2019 on the Chinese short message platform Weibo,
The first photo of Samsung’s second smartphone with a foldable display is this time in a classic clamshell design. The foldable smartphones are folded in the middle like previous folding phones. In contrast to folding phones, there is a continuous display on foldable smartphones. In the case of classic folding cell phones, the display was located in the upper area and in the lower part there was a cell phone keyboard.
New smartphone could complement the Galaxy Fold
The new folding smartphone from Samsung could complement the Galaxy Fold the first folding smartphone from the smartphone market leader.
The new model takes on the form factor of the Razr from Motorola and thus says goodbye to the 4: 3 display format of the Galaxy Fold. So far it is not known under which product name the smartphone will appear. There is also no date for a market launch and no information about the price.
Samsung recently secured the rights to the Samsung Ultra Thin Glass brand, which could be abbreviated to UTG. The particularly thin glass could be bendable. Such thin, flexible glass has been manufactured by the glass industry for a long time, like Golem.de.
already in 2016 reported. But so far, flexible glass has not been used for folding smartphones.
Samsung’s advantage over the Motorola Razr
If the information provided is confirmed, Samsung would have gained an advantage over the Motorola Razr, which should appear with a foldable plastic display. Motorola has postponed the launch date of the Razr indefinitely, The Razr smartphone should actually be delivered in January 2020 at least in the United States. Pre-orders should start on December 26, 2019. It is not known when the folding smartphone will be launched in the USA. So it could happen that the Samsung smartphone goes on sale before the Motorola Razr.
Samsung and Huawei also had to postpone the launch of their first foldable smartphones. There were mainly technical reasons here. Motorola, which belongs to Lenovo, justified the postponement of the start of sales with a high demand. This is strange because customers have not been able to pre-order the device.
According to the latest planning, the Motorola Razr should appear in Germany in the first half of 2020. It is currently not known whether the delayed sales launch in the USA will also postpone the launch date in Germany. However, the date for the sale in Germany is very vague, so it may be that it is kept.
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