A Samsung foldable display developer explains the history of Galaxy folding screens

08 August 2024
The journey started way back in 2008 - before Samsung even made its first Android phone. Special new materials had to be developed to overcome difficult challenges.

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Anonymous, 09 Aug 2024another desperate advertisement from samsung ... to brainwa... moreYou bet they are desperate, Chinese manufacturers left and right smashing their shitty Fold series design and hardware wise

    Oh I see, is that also the reason why Samsung Folds are 3 years behind in designs then Chinese counterparts? 🤣

      Anonymous, 09 Aug 2024If those brands had just managed to make Baidu Translate be... moreWe or just you???
      Because you sounds like casual Johny Ive trying to sell empty can of coke for millions.

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        • Anonymous
        • PZs
        • 09 Aug 2024

        another desperate advertisement from samsung ... to brainwash customer to buy, qnd the money earned by samsung is to pay the gym and vitamins for the developers

        if samsung already claimed it can fold ... LG has made it roll, which is far more advance ... while samsung still deal with crease and nonsense advertisement

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          • 09 Aug 2024

          Cpt.Power, 08 Aug 2024Honestly since first flip and fold from competition excludi... moreIf those brands had just managed to make Baidu Translate better, we wouldn't struggle to comprehend the disinformation you're trying to sell.

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            • Anonymous
            • rJ6
            • 09 Aug 2024

            Ihave bought it found it Useless waste of money after 6 six months phone is (damaged) not working at all
            Pathetic product launched by samsung giving bad name to company
            Never by product from samsung

              Ouifuf, 08 Aug 2024It isn't really though, they were the first mass marke... moreall im saying is you at the end of the day agree that they were basically the first on the foldable scene, at least if you consider this form factor. Yet you just blatantly twist words to make fun of someone else.

              I agree with the innovation part and again im not saying you're wrong in pointing out the fact that Samsung sucks. It's just annoying to see you twist facts for no reason

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                • Anonymous
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                • 09 Aug 2024

                The kims making this silly video to make people forget just how much of a shameless apple knockoff their products are becoming and how little actual innovation is going on at Samdung Mobile nowadays.

                  PepperPot, 09 Aug 2024I've made the same point I've made for years. No... moreYou're looking at data for people buying handsets outright. The majority of people get them on a plan with their MNO. And with these types of plans peole can afford (and do buy) higher end phones). Look how well iphones and high end samsungs do. And I never stated for how long honor outsold Samsung, just that they did. You're punching in the air arguing with stuff I never said.

                    Ouifuf, 08 Aug 2024I've seen a lot more flips then you'd think. And ... moreI've made the same point I've made for years. Nothing has changed. The majority of phones sold are under $500. These are phones that don't have flagship specs. When Huawei briefly led sales in 2019, it wasn't off their flagship models. It was off their subsidiary brand. When people spend premium money, they buy from premium brands. Huawei is not a premium brand. None of those companies you mentioned are. They push specs because that is the only angle they have to compete. Good for them, but it takes more than filling the spec sheet to sell expensive phones. Most people are not spec chasing. The main use for a mobile phone is to communicate and access the internet. All of these other specs are secondary.

                    Also, Honor did not sell the most book foldables in Europe. Samsung sold the most foldables in 2023. Honor led sales in the 1st Quarter of 2024. 1 Quarter. A year is 4 Quarters. Get back to me about sales when 2024 is over.

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                      • 09 Aug 2024

                      I lived in Silicon Valley from 1991-2000 and often attended the SID expo in San Jose, (industry display expo). In the 1990s I saw prototype flexible colour displays then from Samsung and others, always inside a glass cabinet, so you could not touch. I remember a machine that was bending the display back and forth to show how flexible it was. Of course, the quality was crude, but this tech has been in development a lot longer than the 2000s. The tech that made it all possible before the glass and other developments mentioned in this article was OLEDs.

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                        • Anonymous
                        • Jvg
                        • 08 Aug 2024

                        2008 was a better time and smartphones were better too. The problem with folding ones is that they are simply pathetic, ridiculous, embarrassing, etc. Using one will only make you look like a loser desperate for attention from others. It turns out that being a pioneer of the foldable smartphone was for nothing xD

                          TheLastOracle, 08 Aug 2024Hope Samsung figures out that it needs Better Cameras, bigg... more🤣No .they wont.This brand never have their own idea. Even the fold 6 camera bump design they copied the XPERIA 1V .shame

                            Hope Samsung figures out that it needs Better Cameras, bigger battery and slightly faster charging on its phones. Especially the Foldables.

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                              • Anonymous
                              • 6mM
                              • 08 Aug 2024

                              Explain why this guy not get kicked because this nonsense same borin folds every year ! Watch the xiaomi or honor foldable hardware way better!!!

                                Honestly since first flip and fold from competition excluding Royale Flexpai the very first foldable phone all, any and every competition and competitor delivers 2-10 times better specced device with better features and everything else.
                                Past 3-4 years samsung apart newer GPU and CPU made zero improvements which does not justify the price.
                                While competition from 10+ brands makes every year a lot better device

                                  jiyen235, 08 Aug 2024that's just a huge contradiction, I despise Sammy myse... moreIt isn't really though, they were the first mass market foldable yet after 6 years have failed to innovate in the last 3 years

                                    DeepIn2U, 08 Aug 2024Omfg. Y do YOU think they became a TRUSTED brand in the... moreComplacency? Samsung started out as an underdog like some of these other brands are today. They started selling phones that didn't come close to the sales figures of Nokia or Blackberry. But they spent a tonne on R&D and making sure their phones had something new and innovative to drive sales. Then they became the largest smartphone seller by volume worldwide and now they're complacent and lazy.

                                    Foldables as a concept WAS innovative but since it's become more and more normalised Samsung haven't innovated. Look at the N3/Open: cheaper, just as powerful (for that years model), better camera, better battery, thinner, lighter. All of these made it the best foldable of the year for a lot of reviewers. Meanwhile samsung: "we made the gap when you close it smaller, money now please. People are sick of it, that's why Honor and Huawei started to outsell them. Also why when the N2 flip came to europe, it outsold the Flip too.

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                                      • Anonymous
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                                      • 08 Aug 2024

                                      "And back to 2024 with the Galaxy Z Fold6 and Z Flip6, which are the first foldables with particle ingress protection, IP48."

                                      The Razr 40 and 40 Ultra were rated IP52.

                                        DeepIn2U, 08 Aug 2024Look at the dates. Carbon Fibre is a LIT more expensive to ... morecarbon fibre is expensive. Period. The first cars to use carbon fibre are legendary and are hyper cars like the Mclaren F1 or the XJR-15/220. Why do you think foldables cost so much compared to a camera powerhouse like the X100 Ultra/Find X7 Ultra? Not just engineering cost but also material cost must be included with the final product price, basic business principles.

                                        The Ford wheels are cheaper because they have more, everything lol. Firstly, they had a design and made it better/easier to produce. The first products of any kind were prohibitively expensive, for example OLED monitors or TVs. So even if the material is the same cost, they can afford to price lower/make it with lower costs. Secondly, they must have more of the product to produce so they just buy more raw materials, get the benefit of Economies of Scale and get lower costs for raw materials. Not to mention that the raw materials must be cheaper because there's more and more demand as time goes on, so the raw material maker needs to keep making more, thus having lots of supply.

                                        Anyways, your point about carbon fibre being cheaper now is just a stronger stab at Samsung. You're saying carbon fibre is cheaper now yet Sammy is so cheap they won't even use more carbon fibre now? Wow! I didn't know that! Thanks for doing my research for me and informing me.

                                        And finally, the same licensing thing can be said about everything. If LG patented all forms of OLED then Samsung wouldn't have OLED, if Apple or someone else patented a smartphone, Samsung wouldn't have been as much of a household name as it is now, if Sony patented smartphone cameras Samsung wouldn't have been able to have cameras, if Android wasn't open source, Samsung would've flopped far harder than Windows phones, and so on. I think you get the picture now.

                                        Just because Samsung makes components for others doesn't make everyone owe them anything other than money for those components. Besides, let's just say Samsung DID in fact do everything for others and everyone should respect that, so what? What's your point? I can't criticize Samsung? Fanboyism is crazy man, if you're a guy you must be making fun of girls for liking K-pop/creating parasocial relationships with those people yet you made a parasocial relationship with a company lmao

                                        Grow up buddy, try to understand that these companies are not your friend and that people have different opinions and also have the right to talk freely (freedom of speech).

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