Would It Be Better If Your Phone's Screen Had THREE Sides? Samsung Thinks So
But will it be enough to dislodge Apple?
By Darian Goh — 12 Feb 2015, 12:56 PM — Updated over 9 years ago
If you're bored with just having one screen on your phone, fret not, as Samsung will be releasing a phone with a 3-sided screen according to a report by Bloomberg
Samsung Electronics Co. plans to release two new versions of its top-tier Galaxy smartphone next month, including a model with a display covering three sides, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter.
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Samsung plans to launch a flagship smartphone with a 5.1-inch screen that's sloped on both vertical sides, according to a new report.
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Curved displays are not new for the company, as they have experimented with the Galaxy Note Edge, a phone which has a curved display
If you're having trouble imagining how that looks, recall the company's Galaxy Note Edge, whose screen has one curved side.
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The phone will debut alongside another model at the Mobile World Congress in Spain and both phones will have all-metal bodies, a departure from previous models which used plastics
Both phones will have all-metal bodies and use Samsung’s most advanced processor chips, the people said, asking not to be identified because the details haven’t been released. The second model to be unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in Spain will only have a front-facing display, the people said. Both phones will have 5.1-inch screens, one of the people said.
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The latest rumour, courtesy of Bloomberg, has the Galaxy maker readying two versions: one standard 5-inch model and another with multiple screens flanking the device on three sides. Noting how the 5.7-inch Note 4 won high marks for ditching cheap plastic with fake metal trim and going with real aluminum, now Samsung will reportedly build its new pair of S6 devices with all-metal bodies.
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The new Galaxy phones, developed under the “Project Zero” codename, will use metal frames supplied by BYD Electronic International Co., one of the people familiar with the matter said. That is a subsidiary of BYD Co., the Chinese automaker partially owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
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Besides that, Samsung promised that their latest flagship model will have a camera that will "do all the thinking for users"
While no official details about any of them have been revealed, Samsung's official blog published a lengthy post on Wednesday that said that its 2015 flagship model's camera will be "intelligent and do all the thinking for users, allowing them to take amazing pictures under any conditions."
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Samsung on Wednesday all but confirmed that the Galaxy S6 flagship will have one of the best smartphone cameras ever made in a lengthy post on its Samsung Tomorrow blog. Teasing that “the future of cameras is in a Samsung Galaxy smartphone,” the company explains the progress it made with phone cameras since 2000, the year it introduced its first phone that sported a 0.3-megapixel camera.
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“The same passion and dedication has been put into building the cameras for the release of our 2015 flagship model. It will be intelligent and do all the thinking for users, allowing them to take amazing pictures under any conditions, without having to worry about anything more than just pressing the shutter button.”
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Samsung will be banking on this flagship phone to revive their falling sales against their biggest competitor, Apple
Samsung has been stung by Apple Inc.’s new iPhones, ceding global market share after the larger-screen devices captured sales in a segment pioneered by the Galaxy S lineup. Asia’s biggest technology company is using its skills in displays and chips to recapture its innovation edge and revive earnings that have slumped for three straight quarters “Samsung need a model with new technology to stop the iPhone juggernaut and to distinguish it from others,” said Lee Sang Hun, a Seoul-based analyst at HI Investment & Securities Co. “Although Samsung is continuing to release cheaper models globally to defend its market share, the next S phone is more important because that’s where they make money.”
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If Samsung has found a way to make certain apps on the phone exploit the new screen technology in compelling ways, consumers might start to like the idea. If this happens in big numbers, Samsung may have found the next big wave upon which its smartphone business can ride for another couple of years.
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