During the keynote address, Chung Yi, the Executive Vice President and Head of Corporate Business Mobile/IT Display at Samsung, said that Samsung is developing multiple form factors to meet smartphone needs in the AI era.
We are developing various form factor products, such as double-folding multi-foldables and rollables.
Samsung Display SVP, August ’24
Last year, there were talks about the Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Flip 5 being joined by a dual-foldable Galaxy smartphone, and the same rumor circulated before the Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Galaxy Z Flip 6 unveil this year.
Samsung is not the only foldable phone maker that is working on dual-foldable or rollable display phones, as Oppo, Huawei, Xiaomi, and others have all shown their such concepts. To claim the bragging rights of being the first to hit the market, Samsung needs to step up its game, and not with for the 6G era to release a dual-folding device, or it will risk falling behind like with the Z Fold line of phones that is thicker, heavier, and with weaker specs than a lot of Chinese foldables.
Now imagine a dual-foldable Galaxy | Image credit – Honor
Still, the multi-foldable form factor is seemingly going to be the new frontier for bendy devices, and it remains to be seen how everyone will approach it.
