Samsung planning Galaxy phone with wrap-around display for 2014 launch

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  • Reply 21 of 106
    Samsung is like McDonalds. Apple is like In-n-Out Burger.
  • Reply 22 of 106
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    Originally Posted by Apple ][ View Post

     

     

    Even if it were to fail for Samsung, that would tell Apple nothing, just look at Samsung's horrible watch. That doesn't mean that Apple doesn't have a watch of their own that they will eventually release.

     

    Apple's execution would obviously be a million times better than anything that Samsung could do. Apple actually thinks about what they release, Samsung just releases random crap. And if the Samsung random crap product for this week fails, they'll just release another random crap product next week. 


     

    Of course, I agree. However, Samsung will have lost its bet ($$$) yet again and Apple isn't too proud to review and analyze Samsung's failure. 

     

    Samsung is also creating a record of their pre iWatch designs. This might be used against them if they do the follow closely thing again.

  • Reply 23 of 106
    poksipoksi Posts: 482member
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    They still have no clue what to make using a flexible display. This has no additional utility for the user.

     

    Exactly! They don't know what to do with it. Actually, the whole idea of flexible displays is useless, unless we fold them and put into the pockets. And even that...

  • Reply 24 of 106
    MacProMacPro Posts: 19,822member
    They still have no clue what to make using a flexible display. This has no additional utility for the user.

    All this means is all those morons in concerts that keep their Scamsung device on full screen brightness while they video the show, will blind people either side of them as well as behind them now. But they read here on AI Apple were planning something with wrap round curved glass so had to be first. Pathetic.
  • Reply 25 of 106

    Yucks. There's a difference between being innovative and being idiotic.

  • Reply 26 of 106
    Concave can block light sources which can make it easier to read outside but concave will definitely make it harder, and it's not like OLED, which I assume this is, is still that good for outdoor viewing.

    They still have no clue what to make using a flexible display. This has no additional utility for the user.

    The best choice, to me, would be something wearable that is often on a curved surface. If you take a 15mm slice of that display along the horizontal (then shorten the section) you might have a decent option for a wrist-worn computer. Sliding up and down to see various items, perhaps even giving it the illusion that it's traveling a full circle around your wrist.
  • Reply 27 of 106

    Dumbest idea I've seen in a while.

  • Reply 28 of 106
    poksi wrote: »
    Exactly! They don't know what to do with it. Actually, the whole idea of flexible displays is useless, unless we fold them and put into the pockets. And even that...

    I don't think we should intermix curved display with flexible display. The former is static and the former is not. This is clearly not flexible from the user's PoV.
  • Reply 29 of 106
    pk22901 wrote: »
    Apple's been rumored to be developing the same thing.

    I wonder if this is just an Apple head fake to have Samsung be the first to test the market and, if it fails for Samsung, well then,

    it couldn't happen to a nicer Korean chaebol.

    Keep fantasizing.
    Apple isn't that clueless. But this "nicer Korean chaebol" apparently is.
  • Reply 30 of 106
    Words cannot describe the stupidity of this phone
  • Reply 31 of 106
    Keep fantasizing.
    Apple isn't that clueless. But this "nicer Korean chaebol" apparently is.

    Consider this from Soneira: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/11/11/concave-displays

    Now consider a watch face with a sapphire display and underneath a circular display that could be slightly concave to help make it easier to see in daylight with less power used.
  • Reply 32 of 106
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    ?Gimmick much?


     

    +1

     

    This Scamsung Phoney looks like it is wrapped around the edge for the sake of showing it can be done -- I see no value in what is shown.

     

    I'm curious about durability on the event horizon (aka screen wrap edge) but more importantly: How do you handle a pinch that starts in the event horizon (EH) and continues into space? What about simple taps at the EH?

     

    I expect that something more like the curve on the front of an old CRT monitor (ergonomics?) might seem more appropriate for a static curve.

     

    Hey now wait a minute, didn't the television hardware industry spend many score years so they could build a flat screen?

     

    I have seen reasons to have a curved screen (e.g., wearable displays) but what Scamsung is trying to float with that thing is just stinking up the bowl!

  • Reply 33 of 106
    512ke512ke Posts: 782member

    It makes sense for Samsung to develop radically different high end phones.  Their current high end offerings have plateaued in terms of sales.  They're not growing their high end phone sales, they're losing right now.  Apple is increasing its upper tier sales.

     

    So Samsung really needs something new and different at the top end.  Who knows?  Maybe this curved screen phone will be "it".

     

    Or maybe, like their watch, they will come out first but not necessarily dominate.  

     

    Personally I think Samsung does better when they are directly copying, and in many ways improving upon, a proven Apple product.

     

    I'm not sure Samsung is really killing it when they invent something new on their own.  

  • Reply 34 of 106
    Interesting proof of concept. Granted it's a commercial for their display unit but still interesting.

    If they can create phones with existing screen sizes like 5" and add on these angled screens, I'd be up for it.
  • Reply 35 of 106
    zoetmb wrote: »
    What's the point?   In the concept, the part of the screen that bends would normally be flat.  It's not like it really goes around the sides.    It just takes screen area away from the front, rather than adding it.     

    A wrap-around screen might make sense if it truly wraps around the entire phone.    You'd do certain type of activities on the front and certain on the back.    But the phone would have to know which side you're looking at so that it ignored touches on the other side.

    Or, there'd be an easy way of unwrapping the screen, so you could have this really big screen when you wanted it that you would then push back closed around the phone when you weren't using it or didn't need it.   

    Personally, rather than a screen that bends for the sake of bending, I'd rather see a screen that goes fully to the front edge, at least along the long edges of the phone.  I think we'll see that within a year or two.

    On March 27th an Apple patent containing the description of a wraparound display similar to your description was published.

    For the Samsung concept, I think there was an Apple version heralded earlier this year or some time last year. If I find the Apple concept phone, I will post the link(s) here.
  • Reply 36 of 106
    512ke wrote: »
    It makes sense for Samsung to develop radically different high end phones.  Their current high end offerings have plateaued in terms of sales.  They're not growing their high end phone sales, they're losing right now.  Apple is increasing its upper tier sales.

    So Samsung really needs something new and different at the top end.  Who knows?  Maybe this curved screen phone will be "it".

    Or maybe, like their watch, they will come out first but not necessarily dominate.  

    Personally I think Samsung does better when they are directly copying, and in many ways improving upon, a proven Apple product.

    I'm not sure Samsung is really killing it when they invent something new on their own.  

    Samsung is developing so many phones with different abilities that they are unable to create a coherent message.

    Producing the Round only for Korea prevented the rest of the world from seeing, touching or buying it. The Round was just for having a curved phone first. Have the South Koreans purchased that phone in large quantity? Nobody is talking about the phone. And Samsung is scrambling to talk about the next thing before the current thing can make progress.

    A Galaxy S smartphone with a 64-bit microprocessor is coming. One with a finger print scanner is coming. One with wireless charging is coming. One with a retina scanner may be coming. One with three sides is coming.

    So many phones and technologies without a singular strategic message shows how undisciplined Samsung is.

    Keep up the great work, Samsung!
  • Reply 37 of 106
    jd_in_sbjd_in_sb Posts: 1,600member
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by bananaman View Post



    sorry but did I somehow end up at samsung insider?



    Yet you clicked on the article and commented on it

  • Reply 38 of 106
    Samsung is developing so many phones with different abilities that they are unable to create a coherent message.

    Producing the Round only for Korea prevented the rest of the world from seeing, touching or buying it. The Round was just for having a curved phone first. Have the South Koreans purchased that phone in large quantity? Nobody is talking about the phone. And Samsung is scrambling to talk about the next thing before the current thing can make progress.

    A Galaxy S smartphone with a 64-bit microprocessor is coming. One with a finger print scanner is coming. One with wireless charging is coming. One with a retina scanner may be coming. One with three sides is coming.

    So many phones and technologies without a singular strategic message shows how undisciplined Samsung is.

    Keep up the great work, Samsung!


    This. This. This. They just throw shit at a wall and end up copying everyone else because their shit stinks. Their 'money making' products are all replicas of Apple. What a joke this curved display idea is.
  • Reply 39 of 106

    I am still trying to understand the value of this, I believe if they are doing this, it just to show they can do it, not because it has some sort of utility value.

     

    It appears Samsung is respond to every rumor that has come out about an Apple product, except TV since they already know what Apple knows is that is a dead market you do not make money selling TV these days.

  • Reply 40 of 106
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    A problem looking for a solution.

     

    Desperately Seeking Susan

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