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Samsung to release the first flexible smartphone in 2012. Damn, that technology’s coming to consumers already?
For a couple years now, Samsung and Sony have periodically showed off flexible screen and flexible cell phone technology in the form of very crude prototypes, but I didn’t expect it to come to market as soon as 2012. Next year, Samsung will introduce the Galaxy Skin, a flexible smartphone you’ll be able to bend and roll up and put in your pocket.
The company demonstrated ‘bendable’ AMOLED screens 4.5 inches across and just 0.3mm thick in January this year. Reports this week hint that phones using the technology - which can be ‘rolled up’ and survive hammer blows - will appear in the second quarter of next year.
The technology relies on atom-thick layers of ‘graphene’ - sheets of carbon atoms - sandwiched together, protecting a layer of liquid crystal ‘screen’. Earlier this year, reports leaked that Samsung had the capacity to manufacture large amounts of the screen by ‘early 2012’ - but no one knew what they might be for. Samsung later released pictures of a concept phone using the technology - the Galaxy Skin.
The phone would be no mere novelty. Phones using Graphene screens would be practically unbreakable, and offer an instant advantage over every other smartphone on the market. Now, according to reports in the International Business Times, the handsets could be on sale early next year.
The report was remarkably specific, stating that the handset would offer specifications including a high-resolution 800×480 flexible AMOLED screen, eight megapixel camera and 1Gb of RAM as well as a 1.2GHz processor.
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Dude…
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Oh God. Oh my God. spastasmagoria:
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I…I think I need this.
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Can’t access the source right now, but cnet says it’s just a concept?...
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O__O Holy shit
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ARE YOU KIDDING ME!? THIS IS SO DOPE! LOL
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Want.
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I am totally going to buy this.
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Buh I just bought my new Samsung, I’m gonna be so jealous when this comes out
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WE ARE LIVING IN THE FRICKIN FUTURE, MAN
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