You probably have already heard a lot about Samsung and even LG launching their first curved smartphones within this year, right? Samsung's display displays division has already announced earlier this year that they will be mass producing their Flexible Super AMOLED displays within this year. Samsung has solidified that fact by announcing the world's first mobile device to incorporate the Flexible AMOLED display, the Samsung Galaxy Round. The device, which I believe, is basically the Galaxy Note III just with a different screen, this time a curved one and with a curved display comes a curved design aesthetics of the hardware itself. The phablet or smartphone, whatever you would like to call it, sports a 5.7" HD Super AMOLED display, runs on Android (probably 4.3 Jelly Bean9), sports the same leather backing the Note III has, and also sports a microUSB 3.0 port (as seen in photo). The Galaxy Round is expected to be available in South Korea starting tomorrow and for the rest of the world, Samsung did not say anything. They probably are still testing the water on how the market will be accepting this device first in their home turf.
So you might ask, the is the advantage of actually using or putting a curved/flexible display in a smartphone this big? And why did Samsung did not put this on a different variant of the Galaxy S 4? Probably because Samsung wants this tech to be on the world's most powerful mobile device to have ever landed on Earth. I am not saying that the Galaxy S 4 is a mediocre but apparently, the Note III is really just much more powerful than it's smartphone counterpart.
Why a flexible display? One thing is that, like Apple's 64-bit architecture of the A7 SoC, flexible display is the future. The industry will only be going into that direction, Samsung just made a product with it and that is it and like what I have said, the Koreans might be testing waters with this just like what they did with the first Galaxy Note. One major advantage of a phone with a flexible display is not the "weird" shape the phone gets but the durability of the screen. Remember that a huge mobile device with a huge display will be more prone to display breakage because a large real estate of glass in front makes the whole display more fragile. The analogy I follow with is the fact that a large plate will break more easily compared to a saucer simply because a plate will have more surface area compared to a saucer and with more area means more fragility, right? Correct me if I am wrong though.
It is also amazing that Samsung Display was able to spit out a full HD Flexible Super AMOLED display, I was expecting this to be a bit on the not-so-great-with-resolution display because, you know, it's something new.
Anyway, since this will be just the Note III with a curved display, head over to my Galaxy Note III post if you want to check out the specs. If Samsung will put the specs of this device out officially, then I will be editing this post.
It is also amazing that Samsung Display was able to spit out a full HD Flexible Super AMOLED display, I was expecting this to be a bit on the not-so-great-with-resolution display because, you know, it's something new.
Anyway, since this will be just the Note III with a curved display, head over to my Galaxy Note III post if you want to check out the specs. If Samsung will put the specs of this device out officially, then I will be editing this post.
