In pics: Samsung unveils Infinity Flex, the much-awaited 'foldable' phone
Samsung
Electronics Co Ltd unveiled its much-anticipated foldable phone in San Francisco on
Wednesday, urging Android developers to start writing apps for it.
Samsung
needs to get the foldable
phone right to reverse steep declines in profit for its mobile division
and restore some of the cachet its brand has lost to Apple Inc .
Foldable
phones promise the screen of a small tablet in a pocket-sized device.
Justin
Denison, senior vice president of Samsung Electronics America's Mobile Product
Strategy and Marketing, showed a prototype with a screen he said measured 7.3
inches diagonally.
Folded
in two it appeared to resemble a thick phone, but Samsung did not give media or
developers a chance to touch or see the device up close.
Dave
Burke, vice president of engineering for Google's Android software platform,
told a Google conference in California that Samsung planned to introduce a new
Android-based device early next year.
"We
expect to see foldable products from several Android manufacturers," he
said. Read
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