Microsoft’s Surface line of devices include 12.3 inch tablets, 13.5 inch laptops, 15 inch convertibles, 28 inch all-in-one desktops, and even wall computers with screen sizes up to 84 inches. But one thing Microsoft hasn’t offered to date? A pocket-sized Surface. Rumor’s have been circulating for years that Microsoft was working on a Surface Phone and/or […]
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If folding phones are the future, the future looks expensive
Samsung, LG, Huawei, and other companies have been working for years on technology that could be used in folding smartphones with flexible displays. The idea is that you could have a pocket-sized phone that you can hold in one hand… but unfold the device and you get a larger, tablet-sized display when you want it. […]
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Patent reminds us LG is working on a foldable smartphone too
Rumor has it that this year Samsung will release its first phone with a flexible OLED display that lets you fold the phone in half. The Samsung Galaxy X would essentially let you have a tablet-sized display when you want one, a smaller phone-sized display the rest of the time, and the ability to fold […]
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Do you actually want a folding smartphone?
Rumor has it that LG and Samsung are both working on foldable smartphones with flexible OLED displays that allow you to use a single device either as a phone or a tablet. ZTE beat them both to market by taking a big shortcut: the ZTE Axon M that ships this week doesn’t have a flexible […]
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Huawei has a folding phone in the works too
This week ZTE launched a dual-screen smartphone that you can fold in half, letting you use just one screen at a time or both together for a larger, tablet-like experience. But next year phone makers are expected to start shipping foldable phones that have only one screen. The difference is that they’ll have flexible OLED display […]
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Samsung’s foldable smartphone coming in 2018 (maybe)
Samsung has been working on a smartphone with a flexible display that you can fold in half for years. Now Samsung’s smartphone chief DJ Koh says the company hopes to ship a phone with a foldable display in 2018. That’s a bit earlier than we’d heard from Samsung earlier this year, but Samsung’s not the […]
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LG introduces 77 inch flexible, transparent OLED display
LG Display’s latest OLED screen combines a bunch of buzzwords: it’s big. It’s flexible. It’s transparent. And if you add all of those things up you’ve got a display that will most likely be really expensive (albeit really cool). Don’t expect to see the company’s new 77 inch transparent, flexible OLED display in home TVs […]
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Lenovo 25th anniversary ThinkPad coming this fall (won’t look like this)
Lenovo unveiled a new set of computers and services aimed at business and enterprise users today… and the company also teased something that it’s not ready to launch yet. October marks the 25th anniversary of the release of the first ThinkPad computer, and the company plans to offer a limited-edition ThinkPad laptop with “throwback” features […]
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E Ink demos a foldable 10.2 inch display, among other things
E Ink is probably best known for making the paper-like electronic displays used in Kindle, Nook, and Kobo-style eBook readers. But the company also makes displays used for industrial and commercial products including digital signage and whiteboards. Today the company announced that its E Ink Prism displays are now available in seven color options, allowing […]
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AU Optronics shows off 5 inch foldable AMOLED display
Smartphone makers have reportedly been developing phones with foldable displays for the past few years, although none has made it to market yet. Eventually we could see phones that offer their own screen protecting case — just fold the phone in half when it’s not in use. Or we could see phones with small-ish displays that […]
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Samsung’s folding phone might not be ready until 2019
You know that Samsung phone with a foldable display we’d heard might be ready to launch this year? It’s starting to look like it won’t be ready in 2017… or 2018. According to The Korea Herald, Samsung Display engineer Kim Tae-woong says foldable phone technology will “be mature around 2019,” and there’s no rush to […]
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Samsung and LG could launch folding smartphones later this year
Technology companies have been working on flexible display technology for years, but so far, for the most part those displays have only been used to create phones with curved edges, like Samsung’s Galaxy Edge phones. But rumor has it that Samsung and LG are working on phones that have a folding display. The idea is […]