Samsung can officially launch its first handsets with foldable displays by 2016 following the release of this year’s units with curved displays such as the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge and the LG G Flex 2. According to the rumor mill, the Korean tech company will be launching a foldable Galaxy S7.
Smartphones with foldable displays have been regarded as the product of a more futuristic mobile industry. Samsung also unveiled some prototypes of their flexible OLED displays, which they called YOUM displays, to their private investors a couple of years ago.
According to Ecumenical News, the company is going to replace its curved AMOLED displays with bendable and foldable ones. Moreover, a senior executive from Samsung allegedly announced late last year that once the Edge units are launched, the company’s next step is to come up with devices that can be “folded in half.”
Samsung and LG are reportedly racing against other to lead the industry of foldable screen technology especially as they were reportedly the first ones to launch curved variants of their units.
Users with these foldable smartphones can soon carry large files in a compact and easily pocketable device. Once the foldable feature is implemented on the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S7, the same unique technology can be applied to e-books and portable laptops. Pretty soon, users can easily fold their devices and simply slip them into their pockets.
Apart from the foldable display feature, the Samsung Galaxy S7 could also sport a new biometric smartphone security feature that will make Apple’s fingerprint scanning feature out of date. In no time at all, this new iris-scanning innovation will be featured in every Samsung mobile device.
This new biometric system will be launched first in the Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4, which the company will officially launch at the ISC West 2015. However, avid Samsung users are convinced that there is no reason for the company to forego installing such latest digital innovation in their upcoming flagship smartphone.
The fingerprint scanning features that exist in smartphones today are now considered shaky, especially compared with the updated and more advanced iris scanners and vein scanners.
With the iris-scanning feature, which has been described by the Stanford Research Institute as “1,000 times more exact than distributed fingerprint data,” users can be provided with “quick, simple-to-utilize, and precise biometric identity management answers,” according to Empire State Tribune.
