According to , future mobile devices should have the ability to fold, bend and slide. samsungvision. To convey this message, the company showcased a smidge of its latest innovations in display design at CES, including his Flex Hybrid that slides and folds.
The new concept lets you switch between 10.5-inch and 12.4-inch screen sizes thanks to its slidable and foldable design. The left side of the screen collapses and the right slides out. In addition to resizing the screen, the prototype can also jump between 4:3 and 16:10 aspect ratios. The Flex Hybrid is just a concept, but it shows Samsung exploring what the next evolution of foldable phones and tablets might look like.
In a press release on Jan. 3, Samsung outlined a concept for its new display, but the company plans to showcase the technology at its show at CES this week. The Flex Hybrid is just one of his several mockups. There’s also a 17-inch slideable display previewed in September and a digital his cockpit his concept for self-driving cars.
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Samsung’s Flex Hybrid concept folds to one side.
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Concepts like this don’t always translate into actual products, but the Flex Hybrid feels like the best fit for Samsung’s current product strategy. Flip phones are only a small part of the wider mobile phone market, Galaxy Z fold When Galaxy Z Flip Established in Samsung’s lineup of mobile devices. According to Omdia, Samsung has more than 88% of the foldable smartphone market, so the company’s early entry into the foldable smartphone space has given it an advantage in terms of market share.
TM Roh, head of Samsung’s mobile experience business, suggested in an interview last August that the company was already thinking about what would come next for the Z Fold and Z Flip. The introduction of new concepts like the Flex Hybrid underlines that point.
“That’s all you saw [at CES] In addition,” he noted, display concept Samsung was showcased at CES last year.
But as foldable phones continue to evolve, Samsung could face more competition as well. motorola When TCL Both show a unique rotatable phone concept. Oppo’s Find N2, which the company introduced in late 2022, also shows a lot of potential thanks to its lightweight design. As my colleague Sareena Dayaram wrote.
Samsung is trying to make foldable devices a fixture in our daily lives, but its goal isn’t to replace regular phones.
In a previous interview, Roh said, “I don’t think bar types alone, foldables alone, or another potentially new form factor will dominate the market.” “But rather, different categories seem to coexist.”
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