Smartphones: Samsung folds

The South Korean giant has launched Thursday on its domestic market with a multi-screen phone curved. A giant step.

The South Korean group Samsung launched on its domestic market a multi-function with a curved screen phone, a technology innovation to strengthen the firm its number on worldwide in the smartphone sector.Galaxy Round apparatus 5.7 inches (14.48 cm) to the curved screen is marketed since Thursday afternoon in South Korea, said SK Tel, the first operator in the country, which distributes this smartphone. The curved screens, lighter and thinner than the current ones, are in their infancy, and the ultimate goal is to create flexible displays so you can roll or fold.

Round the Galaxy, which works with the Android system Google is sold some 1.08 million won (745 euro or 1000 U.S. dollars), said that Samsung did not specify the date of its placing on the market elsewhere in South Korea. Shape "is adapted in terms of ergonomics, the curve of the hand, and (unit) comfortably embraces cheek and ear," said SK Tel said in a statement. South Korea unveiled in January a prototype foldable device, Youm.

 

Technological Advances

For a screen can really be flexible, twisted, folded or rolled, you have the components of the device, the battery can also be foldable, which is not yet on the agenda. Widescreen televisions offered by several groups, including Samsung and LG, also Korean, already have curved screens. These screens are supposed to "immerse" the viewer into the image, but the devices are much more expensive than conventional TVs.

In early September, Samsung unveiled to the public to call his watch, read emails, take pictures and listen to music at the fair IFA consumer electronics in Berlin. Contrary to rumor, the Galaxy Gear, relatively large wrist, does not have a flexible screen, but a touch screen square, mounted on a bracelet.