5 COOLEST TECHNOLOGY OF FUTURE SUMSUNG

FLEXIBLE & FORDABLE DEVICES
Samsung’s CEO
Kwon Oh-hyun
spoke about the
future of its
mobile phones.
What can we look
forward to? Well,
the recently introduced Samsung Galaxy Round
is just the beginning, as the curved phone will
be joined by flexible and foldable hardware in
the future. According to SammyHub.com , the
first bendable phones will come in mid-2014,
with foldable devices nearer the end of 2015.


WAY MORE WEARABLE ONES

The same slide also hinted at Samsung’s
wearable technology plans. Fitting in
somewhere between the Galaxy Round and
the first bendable devices regarding
timeframe, a presentation slide shows the
Galaxy Gear and a pair of Google Glass-like
spectacles. Samsung recently filed a patent for
a product which looks very similar to the specs
on show here, indicating it’s interested in
challenging Google Glass soon.
Better software
Following a question from the floor, Kwon
talked honestly about whether Samsung had
plans to improve its software. He replied that
he was aware the company’s software, “Wasn’t
as good as its hardware.” Does this mean it
has realized TouchWiz is bloated? It almost
certainly indicates we’ll see an improved and
possibly more streamlined version on future
Galaxy smartphones.

UlLTRA HD SCREEN

Touchscreens with a higher than 1080p
resolution are one of the next big things in
mobile, with LG and Japan Display both already
trumpeting the development of 2560 x 1440
pixel panels. Samsung’s certainly not going to
be left behind, and has said it’s looking at both
that resolution and beyond, up to a massive
3840 x 2160 pixels. That’s a whopping 800ppi
pixel density on the average phone. Overkill?
Yes, probably. The first stage is for the 2560 x
1440 panels to arrive, and they may come in
early 2014.

CUSTOM 64-BIT PROCESSOR

Moving beyond
its Exynos chip
range, Samsung
could join Apple
and Qualcomm in
designing its own
ARM-compatible
chips from the ground up. A slide from the
event shows Samsung is working on a 64-bit
processor based on ARM’s own design (which
is just like its current Exynos chips), along with
a second 64-bit chip made with a Samsung
developed core. Both the 64-bit chip and the
above screen technology could become a part
of the rumored Galaxy F.
In addition to all this, Samsung’s CFO admitted
the firm has been “conservative” when it
comes to buying up other companies, but said
this could change in the future. Oh, and if you
dislike the word “phablet,” then Samsung’s
Head of Mobile, JK Shin, has retired the phrase
in favor of one which is just as bad: Fonblet.
He says fonblets are devices with a large
display but still remaining portable, that
include a stylus. That’d be the Galaxy Note
series, then.
As we’ve still got at least a year before the
flexible and bendable phones arrive, we’ll leave
you with one of Samsung’s most cringe-worthy
promo videos we’ve seen (which is quite a feat
in itself) showing the potential of this type of
technology.






By Patrick Capella ©