Samsung has been busy making a new kind of model for smartphones and tablets that features foldable designs to maintain its lead in the global smartphone market. The company has been testing dual-screened units called 'Project V' or 'Project Valley.'
The company previously announced that they could launch a foldable smartphone by 2016. Since the release of the Samsung's 'edge' concept, the South Korean-based enterprise is getting closer in making this statement a reality.
According to Tech Times, Samsung has already accumulated patents for dual screen displays that are foldable for years, however their prototypes never reached the market.
The device is still developing that's why there's not enough information about the specs and features. The company is also working on new gesture control to quickly switch between the device's two screens.
Samsung has revealed that the Project V constitutes a tablet display which can be folded two times, thus forming a single device. The design may be too advanced to undergo large scale implementation, but this shows that Samsung engineers are working towards how future smartphones could look like.
The battery life would be one of the challenges that engineers have so face if two energy-consuming screens will be implemented to the device. If this problem will not be resolved, there is a huge possibility that the project will be dismissed.
Rumors of Samsung rolling out the first foldable by 2016 have been making the rounds for a while, and if this is accurate, then the Korean company is doing their best to meet their deadline. However, there is no guarantee that Project Valley would be a success and will ever be showcased to the public.
Samsung isn't the only company that is busy working on the foldable screen technology. LG has also been gearing up to launch a foldable smartphone by 2016.
The company how proved their worth by launching their 5.9-inch smartphone screen that could tolerate up to 100,000 bends without a visible change in screen quality last October 2014.
