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Samsung will release a smartphone with a foldable display in 2017

Samsung is already close to the development of its first folding smartphone. According to the Korean resource ETNews, the device will be implemented in the form of a 7-inch tablet that fold will take the form of a smartphone with a 5-inch screen.

In recent years Samsung has gained and developed many technologies needed to create a foldable smartphone. The end of the year the company expects to begin mass production of foldable displays. A first foldable smartphone Samsung should debut on the market in 2017.

Rumors that Samsung is developing a smartphone with a foldable display, we go for a long time. At the end of last year, the company patented a convertible gadget that, as planned by the South Korean giant, can be used as a smartphone or phablets, as well as a tablet.

Samsung is considering various options convertible gadget. In particular, the variant of the device with the body, folding in the middle. In this case, the screens may be like the two adjacent pages of an open book. This configuration will open up additional possibilities of control and interaction with multimedia materials.

The company did not specify on what the smartphones in question, and not to mention their exact form-factor. We only know that the main idea of creating such devices is to place a large screen in a small body.

A key feature of the device will be an OLED display that can be folded in half. Novelty can be used both as a smartphone that can be easily put in your pocket and a tablet in the most common among portable tablet 7-inch form factor.

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Samsung Display has already completed development of a prototype foldable OLED-display. And the company expects to establish its mass production in the second half of 2016. And the Samsung gadget is considered as a next-generation smartphone.

Analysts expect that the emergence of such devices will give a new impetus to the smartphone market, which in recent years has slowed significantly. However, they clarify that Samsung started developing the emerging smartphone about three years ago.

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