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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One thing is to have top specced hardware, other thing is to have the OS and software tuned up to make use of the hardware, for example multitasking with all apps on the inner display, DeX mode and so on. And another is long term support and service as well as realibility. If I buy Chinese brand online, where can I get it serviced? How long will it take? Who will give me replacement until it's done? Does the warranty cover the protective foil replacement for 2 years?

I mean I want to use the device for at least two years, not just buy the hottest hardware or flash it in front of everyone I meet and boast in online discussions than camera on my phone takes better photos than camera on your phone. Who cares about that, only some teenagers.

Finally I want to buy from a brand that's allied to my country and not include spyware sending my data to China. So the choices are rather limited but luckily the used market offers afforadable prices even for these expensive phones.

    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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          • 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
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              • 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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                        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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                          • 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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                                • 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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                                        • 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.

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