Samsung tries to steal Apple's iPhone X thunder by teasing foldable Galaxy Note in 2018
In an announcement possibly timed to divert attention from Apple's expected announcement of the iPhone X and iPhone 8, Samsung on Tuesday revealed that it's hoping to ship a Galaxy Note with a foldable display in 2018.

A 2014 Samsung concept.
"As the head of the business, I can say our current goal is next year," the president of mobile business at Samsung Electronics, D.J. Koh, told a group of reporters ahead of the Galaxy Note 8's Sept. 15 launch, according to the Associated Press. "When we can overcome some problems for sure, we will launch the product."
Samsung has shown off flexible OLED prototypes since 2013, and has been rumored as close to a commercial product since 2015. While the company has pioneered the use of curved OLED in devices like the Galaxy S8, foldable technology has proven more challenging.
Foldable OLED could allow a "Note 9" to expand from one size to another, or alternately open and close like a book, protecting the screen when it's not in use.
Koh also teased Samsung's upcoming smartspeaker, which will square off against the Apple HomePod, Amazon Echo, and Google Home. He noted only however that the company is working with Harman on the product, which will presumably use the Bixby voice assistant found on the S8 and Note 8.
This year, both Apple and Samsung have stepped into the realm of edge-to-edge OLED displays. The former is expected to put a 5.8-inch screen on the iPhone X, ditching a physical home button and Touch ID in favor of a virtual control area and Face ID. The company should reveal the product at a press event scheduled for 10 a.m. Pacific time, from which AppleInsider will provide live coverage.

A 2014 Samsung concept.
"As the head of the business, I can say our current goal is next year," the president of mobile business at Samsung Electronics, D.J. Koh, told a group of reporters ahead of the Galaxy Note 8's Sept. 15 launch, according to the Associated Press. "When we can overcome some problems for sure, we will launch the product."
Samsung has shown off flexible OLED prototypes since 2013, and has been rumored as close to a commercial product since 2015. While the company has pioneered the use of curved OLED in devices like the Galaxy S8, foldable technology has proven more challenging.
Foldable OLED could allow a "Note 9" to expand from one size to another, or alternately open and close like a book, protecting the screen when it's not in use.
Koh also teased Samsung's upcoming smartspeaker, which will square off against the Apple HomePod, Amazon Echo, and Google Home. He noted only however that the company is working with Harman on the product, which will presumably use the Bixby voice assistant found on the S8 and Note 8.
This year, both Apple and Samsung have stepped into the realm of edge-to-edge OLED displays. The former is expected to put a 5.8-inch screen on the iPhone X, ditching a physical home button and Touch ID in favor of a virtual control area and Face ID. The company should reveal the product at a press event scheduled for 10 a.m. Pacific time, from which AppleInsider will provide live coverage.
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Yes, AI needed to report this. But...yeesh.
Update: found them
http://iphone.appleinsider.com/articles/16/12/08/apple-patent-filings-reveal-work-on-folding-iphone-with-wraparound-display-autonomous-vehicle-systems
And
http://iphone.appleinsider.com/articles/15/01/06/apple-wins-extensive-patent-for-foldable-flexible-iphone-with-force-controls
And
http://iphone.appleinsider.com/articles/16/12/08/apple-patent-filings-reveal-work-on-folding-iphone-with-wraparound-display-autonomous-vehicle-systems
abd
http://iphone.appleinsider.com/articles/14/05/15/atom-sized-bendable-graphene-touchscreen-tech-seen-as-potential-key-for-future-apple-devices
To be more accurate, since the whole idea of making electronic paper/folding/flexable display back in the 70's when the concept was first demonstrated the idea was to have something like a phone which you can fold up and placed in your pocket. Samsung is the last company to the idea, they stole the ideas like many others they stole.
Okay, I'll give you one guess where the idea originated from.... Wait for it
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_paper
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_display
I bet Steve also thought about stealing the idea as well and probably saw it on that visit to PARC
Imagine what it would be like trying to do ANYTHING one-handed on the monstrosity depicted in the picture. A more conventional slider style arrangement with two independent screens that can be docked side-by-side as needed but still used as a conventional single screen device in portrait mode would be far more useful, even with the resulting bezels. This would be no different than running a multi-monitor setup on your desktop computer. Having a screen that folds or rolls up is still a solution in search of a problem. The problem is out there somewhere - but it probably isn't a smartphone intended for handheld use.
The reality is that, most people will not recognize the future, just like iPhone was not recognized at the beginning.
When your competitor has something new to show off and you don't, fire up the Vaporware Machine!
(P.S. Samsung sucks.)