Samsung To Release Foldable Smartphone Next Year? [Rumor]

Rumors of Samsung creating a foldable smartphone are still in the air, now saying that the alleged foldable smartphone will come next year, in 2017.

A new report coming from Samsung's home country of South Korea says the tech giant will be mass-producing foldable displays by the end of 2016 and will be available for shipping in 2017, reports GSMArena. The report, coming from news outlet ETNews, says that Samsung's new foldable device will be a 5-inch smartphone when folded and a 7-inch tablet when opened.

Despite the report noting that Samsung is doing good in its progress on the said foldable display tech, it is good to take note of the fact that the development of the said technology has been challenged with multiple delays. Android Authority, reports that it has been three years since the Korean giant first presented the idea of foldable devices, and so far, nothing has been released yet.

And while the idea of foldable smartphones or tablets has been ventured into by various tech companies such as Sony, Kyocera and Japanese maker NEC, all of the foldable devices (either tablet or smartphone) released had two touchscreens or displays. Someone has yet to release a single display that can actually be folded, per another report from Android Authority.

According to Parent Herald, There were earlier reports of the Samsung device, codenamed "Project Valley," being worked on as a prototype, and aimed for a January 2016 release. So far, only the amazing Galaxy S7 has been released. It's not the foldable smartphone that's been rumored for some time now, but it still is amazing.

Should the ETNews report surpass rumors and be true, and Samsung succeed in creating the first-ever foldable display, the tech will have a lot of potential, notes AA. Not only that, the waiting public will finally get their hands to the long-rumored tech, one that has taken years to become reality.