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Samsung unveils Galaxy Round with curved display

2013-10-09 09:16:00| Telecompaper Headlines

(Telecompaper) Samsung has unveiled its first smartphone featuring a curved display. The Samsung Galaxy Round is equipped with a 5.7-inch Full HD Super Amoled display that curves slightly to fit the shape of the hand. The curved design integrates features such as the Roll Effect that enables user to check information such as date, time, missed call and battery when the home screen is off, and the Gravity Effect for creating visual interaction with the screen by tilting the device. For music, the Bounce UX enables users to control their music. When the smartphone's display is off while the music player is running, a short press to the left of the device will play the previous track while a short press to the right will play the next track. For pictures and videos, the Side Mirror feature enables users to gain access to a list of the album content with a left and right tilt. The One-Hand Operation features bring a user's most used controls closer to a preferred side of the screen. Multi Window takes advantage of the large screen to open and run more than one application at a time. The Galaxy Round will be available initially in Korea in brown, with other colours to follow. SK Telecom will offer the phone from this month, for just over KRW 1 million.

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LG is making bendable and unbreakable OLED display, for useless curved smartphone

2013-10-07 19:25:41| Extremetech

LG has confirmed that it has begun mass production of a flexible, 6-inch OLED display for smartphones. According to LG, these displays are both bendable and unbreakable (if LG would like to send us a prototype so that we can test the latter claim, that'd be lovely). LG's flexible OLED display will apparently hit the market inside the "G Flex," a 6-inch curved-screen smartphone that's expected to be announced in November. Unfortunately, curved smartphones are virtually useless -- and actually worse ergonomically than normal, flat smartphones.

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