The First Foldable smartphone from Samsung may arrive in December 2018, according to Korean publication, ETnews. The South Korean tech gian may announce the smartphone November and shipping might begin in December.
According to the source, the smartphone will feature 7.3 inch OLED display which is even bigger than Galaxy Note 8 and S8+. Samsung is going to start the production of OLED displays for the foldable smartphone from March 2018. The mass production of the displays will start from September 2018 and the whole phone manufacturing may begin in November 2018. So the device might be shipped in late-December or early January.
According to the Source, the device is going to be super premium and and the price of the phone beats the current premium tier smartphones like iPhone X, Galaxy Note 8, HTC U11. The smartphone will also be super premium in case of performance and design.
The latest report says that Samsung will make the foldable smartphone to look like a book. Users can fold it and unfold and open it. Samsung is going to unveil this new technology in September, according to the report.
The smart phone might be powered by the most powerful Exynos chipset from Samsung, to give superpremium experience to users. Recently the South Korean tech giant unveiled Exynos 9810, a refined chipset. According to Samsung, it will perform twice faster than its predecessor in single-core department and 40% faster in multi-core operations. Most likely the first foldable smartphone from Samsung will be powered by the successor of Exynos 9810.
More details about the foldable smartphone from Samsung will be revealed in coming days.