Deathsheet of Samsung: The classic smartphone has no future

2021 could be a turning point for the mobile world. After several years now Samsung provides a crown jewel of his display division other manufacturers. In addition to the announcement of the quarterly numbers, the South Koreans have also announced great. For the classic smartphone, this is not good news.

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Rectangular shape, large display in the middle: Since the presentation of the original iPhone, the smartphone has hardly changed. Only the advent of foldable smartphones has undertaken the industry again creativity. Market folding cell phones in a large number of quantities, there are so far but only from Samsung. That could change soon.

Samsung wants to bring fold smartphones into the mainstream

According to Ross Young, recognized display expert, Samsung is to sell its best foldable screens this year also to the competition . In addition to Google, Google also includes Oppo, Vivo and Xiaomi, all of which have folding cell phones with various display diagonals between 7.1-inch and 8.1-inch diagonals in the pipeline. All screens should also have a high repetition rate of 120 Hz and are based on modern LTPO technique.

Next to Samsung, there will be foldable smartphones with four major manufacturers this year, including Xiaomi, among other things. At least that leaves the hope that the prices for the promising devices also fall accordingly - competition is known to offer the business. In the flashback 2021 could be the year, in which foldable smartphones have made their breakthrough . It also fits that Samsung has announced in the announcement of its quarterly figures to bring the category of Foldables into the mainstream (Source: Samsung). So the classic smartphone is so heavy times before.

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Samsung starts unpacked event for August 11th

At Samsung itself, everything is in the sign of the Unpacked Events, which will take place on 11 August **, as Samsung has recently confirmed. There, with the Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Galaxy Z Flip 2, not only two foldable smartphones are expected, but also new in-ear headphones as well as the Galaxy Watch 4 and thus the first Samsung Smartwatch on which the new operating system WEAR is running. The SmartWatch could even be cheaper despite various improvements than expected.