At its annual developers conference, Samsung finally made its Infinity Flex Display official. In addition, the company also revealed a lot of their future plans.
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Infinity Flex Display |
Infinity Flex Display
Samsung failed to announce a fully working flexible phone, but the company showed that its screen is ready. The South Korean company highlighted an elastic OLED panel that will be available to their future Galaxy device. It has a 7.3-inch viewing area when opened (tablet mode) and will likely split into half (phone mode) when closed. It will be a compact smartphone when closed for sure.
It uses a new protective layer made out of composite polymer that's flexible and tough. Samsung also made a malleable and foldable adhesive to keep all the components securely stuck even when you flex always. Samsung also claimed that it is thinner than other screens out there. The number they gave is 45 percent slimmer than other type of panels.
Samsung smartphones with different notch designs
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Infinity with notch |
Samsung also teased that they will have phones with three different notch designs that they will use in the future. They dubbed it as the Infinity-U, Infinity-V, and Infinity-O. The letters corresponds to the shape of the notches. They look tiny compared to the notch of the Pixel 3 XL and the iPhone X and above phones.
New Infinity
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The alleged leaked Galaxy S10 |
But, they have one more screen without a notch, the New Infinity. Most likely, we will see this type of screen on future flagships. It could be the full screen design with no notch. It could just have a hole underneath the screen to house the selfie camera.
Samsung will likely call this as the Under Panel Sensor of the AMOLED screen with Sensor Integrated Technology.
Will we see this on the upcoming S10?
One UI
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One UI |
This will be the UI of the upcoming Samsung foldable phone. Samsung stated that they worked closely with Google and Android developers for a minimalist UI that keeps relevant content on the bottom half of the screen for easy one-handed operation. It will also have better screen area for productivity and more.
Related: Samsung One UI 1.0 Review - Was it worth the wait?
Android 9 update
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January 2019! |
The South Korean giant also announced that they will release the Android 9 Pie update to the Galaxy Note9, S9, and S9+ in January. The open beta will be available later this month, but it will only be available in US, South Korea, and Germany. One UI will replace Samsung Experience on Android Pie as well.
Bixby platform now open for developers
Samsung also shared the future of the Bixby platform. They said that it will becomre more useful and helpful by opening up third-party app development for the Bixby. They will also have support for more languages like British English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.
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