Recently, Huawei and Motorola had got patents for the same and Samsung has been working on one for quite sometime now. There's also that patent for flexible OLED display and a 'fold-out' smartphone design.
Speaking of boring upgrades, there's another new product Samsung reportedly plans to unveil alongside the Galaxy Note 9 in early August.
Another firm, Golden Bridge Investment, expects the device to launch in the first half of 2019, with a whopping price tag of 2 million won (about $1,843), a far cry from the price of existing smartphones on the market, with even the iPhone X costing just $999.
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The foldable phone's release was pushed to 2019 while the company continues to work on the tech. Samsung Galaxy S10 It is expected that Samsung might bring the sound emitting display in its next flagship smartphone Galaxy S10.
Now, this information tallies well with previous rumours that the Samsung Galaxy X would have three screens, that the main screen would be OLED, and that it would arrive in 2019.
"Unlike FOD, partners in the 3D sensing module are not detecting mass-production movements", one electronics industry official said.
Samsung is still believed to be the first to release such foldable phones. It may be the first but Samsung better hurry up because other OEMs are also working on similar technologies. The past year Apple flagship is available at $999, and even ZTE Axon M foldable smartphone stands nowhere near that price. The same analyst mentioned this "new device is an interesting thing as it will have two inside panels and one outside panel".
Elsewhere, the Korean report debunks speculation that the Galaxy S10 will feature the foldable AMOLED screen that we've heard so much about, and instead claims that Samsung will stick to same curved Infinity displays found on this year's S9 and S9+. We're hoping this device with a true foldable display will be ready for everyone's consumption.
