Innovation is the engine behind modern tech, and Samsung is about to grow the smartphone in a way few thought possible. Rumours are that the company is working on a massive rollable smartphone, on the cusp of being a sprawling tech marvel. The device is expected to arrive in 2025 and could fundamentally change how we interact with our mobile devices.
According to sources from the Korean outlet The Elec, Samsung is currently developing a smartphone with a design that completely breaks away from the development of previous smart devices for a futuristic thesis: a rollable display. It’s said that this is not just any smartphone that rolls up to a 12.4-inch display when rolled out (to put it in perspective, the Huawei Mate XT, which was hailed as a tri-fold miracle device with a mind-boggling 10.2-inch display, looks like a quarter of this Samsung device). Samsung aims much higher.
Meanwhile, the international smartphone design arms race has seen Samsung and Huawei continuously duke it out for top spot. This year, Huawei released the Mate XT with tri-fold technology that seemed to take design beyond the sort of folds we’ve been seeing on the foldables that Samsung has introduced in recent years. But Samsung’s new rollable concept points the way to a new, non-foldable vision of the future. If the new phone really does scroll out like a piece of paper, it will allow us to behave like our Stone Age ancestors – except with scarily efficient tech that looks right out of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
There’s no real way to know exactly how Samsung’s rollable smartphone would work. With such a dearth of detail – no renders, no prototypes – we can only guess, and that’s part of the fun. Is there a motorised mechanism, a silent carriage of sorts, that hums under the hood of the smartphone, rolling the screen out one centimetre at a time and then back in for storage? Or is it purely a manual thing, where you have some sort of mechanism to enable you to control just how big you want the display to be? Precisely how Samsung’s rollable smartphone will function is anyone’s guess right now, but the public’s excitement to hear more about it speaks to one universal truth surrounding smartphones: we’re always hungry for what’s next.
Cynics may wonder: is there anything more to Samsung’s rollable smartphone than gimmickry? The way it tackles the tough questions thrown up by such a form factor, from the challenge of making such a screen durable and usable in the real world, will determine whether the phone is simply a proof of concept or the start of a new era of mobile device flexibility and screen size. But Samsung has already moved boldly in that direction, from the remarkable but crude Galaxy Fold to the Galaxy Z Fold series, so we can expect a smart phone that offers more screen and a genuinely flexible experience.
After news that Samsung is promising the release of a rollable smartphone by 2025, the excitement and speculation has spread rapidly. What could we do with it? A phone that could fold out to an expansive tablet while retaining the same size – and weight! – as your pocket-held phone. How we could consume media, multitask and consume our mobile wealth could be reinvented. And imagine the new apps and content that developers would create to discover all that functionality.
Samsung is a company that is no stranger to innovation. With its plethora of smartphones and home electronics, this South Korean conglomerate has, without fail, rolled out products that combine technology with functionality. With a couple of firsts to its credit, the company is also the first to launch the foldable smartphone – Galaxy Fold – to the masses. The rollable phone of 2025 will be an innovation Samsung will bring to life for everyone. Be it for work, play or fashion, it is possible that the coming years will bring with it a digital innovation that will transform our relationship with our handsets in ways we have yet to envisage.
In closing, Samsung’s rollable smartphone isn’t just a response to Huawei’s updates; it’s like a comment on where technology can go. By showing us a smartphone that defies conventional expectations, Samsung is teasing a new interaction with technology, not just a new device to buy in 2025. With the speed at which technology changes, it’s hard to predict what the future holds – but we take a guess from one giant in the field. For Samsung, a future that’s as limitless as possible is the Samsung way.
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