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Samsung plans to introduce the world’s first flexible cell phone next year
Scott Calonico
Imagine a phone you can wear around your wrist--and it tells time!
Published on Sep 29, 2011
How many times have you ever thought to yourself, “I wish I had some type of device that I could wrap around my wrist and would give me the time of day at a glance.” Have no worries, loyal KYC readers--that day is not too far in the future!
Rumors have been floating around that Samsung is set to launch the Samsung Galaxy Skin in 2012. This smartphone is going to have all the latest features - 8 megapixel camera for photos, a VGA camera for videoconferencing, 1GB of RAM, a 1.2GHz processor, and it will feature models with both 16 and 32GB hard drives.
But what really sets the phone apart is that it’s dual punch of AMOLED display and the body constructed of graphene. Talk about the future!
Short for Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode, AMOLED displays are built to be flexible. You can bend these babies around without doing any kind of damage to the display whatsoever. Graphine, likewise, has been touted as one of the most durable materials ever and will soon be seen in more and more cell phones.
All this newfangled technology lead Samsung to the obvious conclusion: “Hey, wouldn’t it be cool if we made a cell phone that looked like it belonged in a Dali painting!” Just take a look at some of the AMOLED gadgets on display at the most recent Consumer Electronic Show:
So put a AMOLED screen together with a graphene constructed cell phone body and you get a flexible smart phone that you can wear around your wrist. And get this: among other things it will give you the time. The more things change, the more things stay the same.
Personally, what I’m waiting for is a cell phone that you can wear at the end of a pocket chain. Even better, you could pull the phone out of your pocket every once in a while and start an app that would let you wind up the phone virtually. Dammit! Looks like someone’s already beat me to it:
Except my app would be more lifelike. If you forget to wind the phone, it would eventually slow down and no longer tell the correct time; or let you take Fat Face photos.
