The race to launch the first bendable smartphone is heating up. Lenovo beat Samsung to the punch on Thursday with the first live demonstration of the new technology (pictured above), but the Galaxy-maker could still be first to release a consumer device with a folding display. Speaking at a mobile conference in California on Thursday, Samsung’s North America chief Gregory Lee claimed...
Samsung’s been hard at work developing flexible AMOLED displays. We’ve already seen the technology used in the company’s Galaxy Round handset and the Gear Fit, but according to a new report the South Korean company could take a huge step forward next year with a folding tablet-smartphone hybrid. This fresh rumor comes from Korean web portal Daum and an anonymous industry insider....
Is it me, or does the mobile future look a little bendy? Two items caught my eye recently that suggest that flexible form factors could get some play someday. Researchers at the Queen’s University in Canada and Arizona State University developed a paper phone, operable by bending the device in different ways and into various positions. These bendable gestures can be assigned to...