Bendables screens and foldable devices

Samsung is very busy developing and launching two new smartphone models with bendable screens, including a version that can be fold in half.

These devices will be using organic light-emitting diodes and could be introduced this year. The second Samsung model will have a 5-inch screen when used as a handset, that unfurls into a display that’s as large as 8 inches, like a tablet.

 “Their biggest obstacle was related to making transparent plastics and making them durable, which seems resolved by now.” says an IBK Securities Co. analyst from Seoul.

Codenamed “Project Valley,” it is rumoured that Samsung could start an official productlaunch very soon now.

Samsung will not market the new bendable-screen models under the Galaxy S name, according to a confidential source.

While previously released videoclips featuring the foldable concept phones have been around, Samsung has yet not made such a device commercially.

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