Samsung unveils Infinite Flex Display, which will turn smartphone into tablet
Samsung made SDC 2018, a developer conference, on Wednesday, 7, in which it officialized the new interface for the Android Pie, which changes its name after two years, opening the Bixby code for third parties and the announcement more anticipated, the new foldable display for smartphones.
The company showed a brief history of smartphone screens from the beginning of the Galaxy line to today, with so-called "infinite displays. " The new age, which should already begin next year, keeps this concept of something that does not end, being named "Infinite Display Flex" ( ' Infinity Flex Display' in English).
The apparatus shown, possibly a prototype yet, has two screens. One, 4.6 inches, is shown to the user with the device closed. The other, which is the really flexible display and has 7.3 inches, stay inside and transforms the smartphone, in fact, into a tablet. You can see more or less how it works in the video above.
Infinite displays
To reach this new moment, Samsung has undergone a series of innovations in the displays. It all started with 2009, with the AMOLED screen. The following year, we met the Super AMOLED, which was increasing the resolution until 2015, when it was finally introduced the Curved Super, or 'edge'. Two years later, the infinite hi-display displayed on the Galaxy S8.
Now, the future - which is already the present - reserves three new types of displays, all of the infinite: the 'U', which is the iPhone-style slot; 'V', popularly known as 'drop notch'; and 'O', possibly what we'll see in the Galaxy S10 . Later, we will still have the folding ones, again in three levels (see the image above).
First Folding Galaxy
After narrowing the edges of our smartphones to almost zero, the next step is to offer bigger but still, fit, handsets in our pockets. This is the idea that Samsung intends to bring to the market "coming soon".
The Infinite Flex Display reduces the thickness of the screen by up to 45 %, allowing very thin devices to be delivered - more or less like the flagships we have today on the market, but with two screens, one of which is foldable. And the screen can be opened to closed hundreds of thousands of times without suffering wear.
It’s a phone… It’s a tablet… It’s a phone that unfolds into a tablet! #SDC18
It's a tablet that fits in your pocket. And this opens up real multitasking possibilities, with more than two applications shown on the screen at the same time. Of course, for this to be possible, there is still a need to optimize Android to work properly with all these new possibilities.
Now, you must be thinking that this future is still a little far, right? Samsung has announced that it is ready to begin mass production of new folding displays in the coming months. So it should not take long to get the first models with all these innovations.
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