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Samsung should bring back its wacky phones to make tech interesting again

Mobile tech fans don't really have much to be excited about these days. Things have fallen into a rhythm. Every year, the lineups get refreshed with minor cosmetic changes and new components. The devices look and feel the same for the most part, particularly iPhones, but there's just enough of a change on offer for […]

By Adnan Farooqui
1 year ago

New patent reveals Samsung’s foldable smartphone display

Display technology has rapidly progressed over the past couple of years. Just last year companies like Samsung and LG released devices with curved displays which some viewed as a teaser of what's to come in the future. The US Patent and Trademark Office published a patent application from Samsung recently which shows that the company has been […]

By Adnan Farooqui
10 years ago

SM-G900S shows up in benchmark with 2k display, could be Galaxy S5 or Galaxy Round 2

There have been a lot of rumors making the rounds about the Galaxy S5, but now we finally have what we could consider concrete details on Samsung's next flagship, including a model number and a few of its specs. A device with model number SM-G900S has made an appearance on GFXBench – the model number suggests […]

By Johan Nenzén
11 years ago

Samsung Galaxy Round sales said to be less than 10,000 since launch

It looks like Samsung's excursions into new product categories in the mobile market aren't working out so well. A lot of hoopla was made about the Galaxy Gear's sales being abysmal worldwide recently, and now, according to a different report, sales of the Galaxy Round have been even worse, with only around 10,000 units apparently […]

By Abhijeet Mishra
11 years ago

Review: Samsung Galaxy Round (SM-G910S)

Early this year, Samsung announced that they would come out with a phone with a flexible OLED screen, and showed off several prototypes at CES 2013. Then, in early November, the company announced the Galaxy Round, the world’s first smartphone with a curved screen, which is now in stores in limited quantity. We took the […]

By Martin R.
11 years ago

Galaxy Round unofficially available in the US and Australia

The Galaxy Round is currently available only in South Korea, as Samsung wanted to test the market response to a smartphone with a curved display before launching it worldwide. Well, while that may be the case, it's often not that difficult to buy such devices in other markets, thanks to third-party retailers and the good […]

By Abhijeet Mishra
11 years ago

Are Flexible Displays the future?

Four weeks ago, Samsung went ahead and announced the Galaxy Round in South Korea, as the world's first smartphone with a curved, aka flexible display. This was a major tech announcement not only for Samsung but also for the industry. Picture courtesy of Samsung Tomorrow After using flat panels for over two decades its time […]

By Michael R.
11 years ago

Report: Samsung ready to mass produce curved batteries

The Galaxy Note 3 comes with a 3,200mAh battery. The Galaxy Round, which has exactly the same specs as the Note 3 except for the lack of stylus support, comes with a 2,800mAh battery. Why? Well, because while the Galaxy Round is curved, its battery is flat and straight like standard batteries, only elongated so […]

By Abhijeet Mishra
11 years ago

Curved screen on Samsung Galaxy Round not a gimmick, says DisplayMate

Ever since Samsung announced the Galaxy Round, the world's first smartphone with a curved ‘flexible' display, almost everyone has written off the curved screen as a gimmick, saying it doesn't offer any advantage for the end-consumer. However, the folks over at DisplayMate, who are considered the experts on mobile displays and came away impressed with […]

By Abhijeet Mishra
11 years ago

Samsung GALAXY ROUND Official TVC

Samsung Korea has published their first commercial of the Galaxy Round (World's first curved smartphone). The Galaxy Round is basically a Galaxy Note 3 when it comes to the hardware and specs (though there’s no S Pen support), but the 5.7-inch Super AMOLED display is curved at the sides. Samsung is using a flexible display […]

By Danny Dorresteijn
11 years ago

OLED.at believes Samsung Galaxy Round doesn’t feature YOUM display technology

OLED information website OLED.at isn't sure if Samsung used YOUM display technology inside their first flexible display device, the Galaxy Round. Oled.at says that not a single time Samsung mentioned “YOUM” in their Press Releases. We at SAMMobile HQ have a single Galaxy Round unit but we won't open it up just to confirm if […]

By Danny Dorresteijn
11 years ago

Samsung files four patents for flexible displays in the US

The Galaxy Round, the world's first smartphone with a curved ‘flexible' display, might be a prototype of sorts for Samsung, but it's no secret that the Korean manufacturer is taking flexible displays seriously. On that front, Samsung has filed four new patents for flexible displays with the US Patent Office. The patents are rather broad […]

By Abhijeet Mishra
11 years ago

Galaxy Round simply a prototype test device, will have limited production even in South Korea

Your plans to score one of Samsung's Galaxy Round, the world's first smartphone to feature a flexible display might not work out that well, as according to our insider, Samsung is looking to produce only limited quantities of the device, even in South Korea. It's apparently a prototype device to test curved OLED displays, similar […]

By Abhijeet Mishra
11 years ago

[Video] Galaxy Round’s battery is longer than the iPhone 5s

Samsung's first smartphone to feature a flexible display, the Galaxy Round hasn't exactly impressed anyone since it was officially announced, but it sure has people interested in finding out what advantages its curved screen brings to the table. Well, that's something that's still a mystery, but while we wait for that mystery to be solved, […]

By Abhijeet Mishra
11 years ago

First Galaxy Round firmware is now online and available for download

The Galaxy Round, Samsung's recently announced curved display smartphone, might not go on sale till late this week, but we already have its firmware up and available for download on SamMobile. The Galaxy Round sports a curved 5.7-inch Super AMOLED display, quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor clocked at 2.3GHz, 3GB of RAM, 13-megapixel camera, and Android […]

By Abhijeet Mishra
11 years ago

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