Samsung Working on a Clamshell Smartphone With Folding Screen: Report

Even as the Galaxy Fold remains conspicuous by its absence (although information technology'southward rumored to launch this week in South Korea and later this calendar month in India), Samsung has been working on other folding smartphones with new and interesting course-factors. Co-ordinate to a new report by Bloomberg, the company'south second folding smartphone will be a 'luxury telephone that folds down into a compact-sized square', much like the upcoming Moto Razr 2019 that'south being rumored to launch this fall for €1,500 (around Rs. 1.15 lakh, $1,660).

Quoting unnamed sources, the written report says that the device volition have a clamshell form-cistron like features phones from the last decade, only with a 6.vii-inch folding display when opened fully. Information technology's not immediately clear every bit to whether it will be marketed as the Galaxy Fold 2, but the written report claims that it volition exist thinner and more than affordable than the outset-gen Galaxy Fold, which was originally priced at $1,980 in the Us earlier its launch was postponed following questions about its reliability.

Meanwhile, Samsung is said to be collaborating with American designer, Thom Browne, on the device as function of its plans to position it every bit a fashion accessory. Nevertheless, it will still take some loftier-cease tech specs, including a 'cutting edge' brandish, although in that location are no specifics virtually that at this bespeak in time. It will also plainly accept a dial-hole display to house its selfie-cam, every bit well as a dual-camera setup on the exterior.

While there'southward no further info nigh the phone'southward hardware at this phase, the report does say that its launch will depend on how well the Galaxy Fold performs commercially, which might mean Samsung might consider launching it under a new moniker – instead of Galaxy Fold 2 – if the first-gen Galaxy Fold bombs following all the controversies.