Samsung's foldable phone is coming. Called the Galaxy X, Galaxy F, Galaxy Fold or Galaxy Flex, we now know a bit more than we did when Samsung first gave us a sneak peek at its foldable phone of the future at its annual developer conference in San Francisco this past November.
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On Feb. 11, Samsung confirmed in a teaser video that it would announce? show off? its foldable phone on Feb. 20, the same day as the Galaxy S10 launch.
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This Korean lettering spells out "The future unfolds."
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This is exactly how much of the foldable phone we've seen in person: On Nov. 7, 2018, Samsung SVP of Mobile Marketing Justin Dennison pulled a prototype from his jacket pocket.
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Fully opened, Samsung's foldable phone is about the size of a tablet. Samsung calls this screen technology the Infinity Flex Display.
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Samsung said it shrank or completely redesigned several components to make the two hemispheres thin enough to comfortably carry.
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Closed, it's the width of a regular phone.
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Samsung also refreshed the look of the software that rides on top of Android, calling it One UI. You'll find it on Samsung phones going forward, including the foldable phone and likely the forthcoming Galaxy S10.
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One UI only works with Android 9 Pie, and resembles some of Pie's design concepts. The Galaxy S9 Plus running Android Oreo is on the left; on the right you have a demo Galaxy S9 Plus with One UI on Android Pie.
