After years of rumors and leaks, Samsung confirmed earlier this year that it was already working on a retractable smartphone.
Although the phone was expected to be announced at the Consumer Electronics Show at CES 2019 in Las Vegas early January, DJ Koh, chief executive of Samsung's mobile division, said earlier this month that the company would launch its next-generation smartphone later on. Of this year.
Now Koh returned to reveal more details about the company's first folding phone on the sidelines of the announcement of the world's first smartphone with four rear cameras, the Galaxy A9, which, despite this unique feature, Not top.
Speaking at the event in Malaysia, Koh said Samsung's first retractable smart phone will work as a flip-flopping phone and as a tablet when it opens with the ability to perform a number of tasks at the same time as other tablets.
This is not the first time that Koh has emphasized that the user experience of this device should be valuable for Samsung to launch. He has previously said that the company's folding device, which will be issued worldwide, will not be a gimmick. He repeated this during his recent remarks.
Koh was optimistic about the folding device's prospects. "I'm sure we need a retractable phone," he said. "Maybe when we start selling the folding phone, it might be a niche market, but it certainly will expand."
Samsung is expected to announce its collapsible smartphone, or at least disclose its details, at the Samsung Developers Conference to be held from November 7 to 8 in San Francisco, California.
