“Whereas Apple sticks to a core device design and ideal, Samsung creates as many different device designs as possible, from flip phones named after Irish alcohol, to phablets that are only fractions of an inch smaller than a traditional seven-inch tablet,” James Plafke reports for ExtremeTech. “Now, Samsung has unveiled the first smartphone with a curved screen, the Galaxy Round, confirming that there’s no reason to put a slight curve in a smartphone display.”
“While a too-long-to-invoke lock screen and changing between music tracks on your phone instead of with your headphone controls certainly aren’t the world-shattering curved display features we’ve been waiting for, the Round could perhaps act as a stepping stone toward actually useful mobile devices with curved displays,” Plafke reports. “It could also one day lead toward truly flexible mobile displays. The current naming of the Round, though, is a little misleading, as the curvature is so shallow that it’d take about 300 of the devices to arrange a circle. We hope if Samsung figures it all out, it continues with the grocery store meat naming conventions, and we’ll soon be writing about the Galaxy Ground Round, then the budget friendly Galaxy Ground Chuck.”
Plafke reports, “The Galaxy Round will be releasing in the ‘Luxury Brown’ color on October 10 in South Korea, for the ludicrous price of [US]$1,015.”
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MacDailyNews Take: “Luxury Brown?” Zunetastic!
At Samsung, if you throw enough shit against a wall, you end up with a shitty wall.
When Louis Vuitton, Coach, and Versace do brown, it’s the real “brown” luxury should be.
When Samsung do brown, it’s deserved to be called “Zune Brown” or “Shit Brown”
my 2 cents…
Curves because Samsung users’s fingers keep slipping off the edge. They lack opposable thumbs.
I think Samsung is being very clever (read “sneaky”) here.
First with the watch, now the curved glass (both things Apple has been rumoured to be working on) they seem to rushing out any old crap just to be able to claim prior art in court.
Who cares how well the work or how many you sell if you can stop others truly innovating.
Ah, typed the above comment again because I thought it didn’t get posted first time. My iPhone isn’t showing the second page of comments
Please ignore.
Might make a reasonable shoe-horn if you have big feet…
I think Samsung raided someone’s “lousy concept” trash bin.
This is what Samsung “innovation” looks like. A $1000 price tag for a phone that is curved for no reason other than to say it is curved.
The reality is that the Android OEM’s know they are screwed when Apple releases a larger screen with the iPhone 6. I personally don’t need a larger screen, but this is really the only feature that competitors can cling to and claim that they are innovating. Can’t wait… In the meantime, I am still loving my iPhone 5.
does it float?
Does it blend?
Far be it from me to defend Samsung but there is one useful thing about this screen (I still don’t think it’s worth the money), if you drop it, you’re very unlikely to scuff or crack the screen. A curved piece of glass is stronger then a flat one and this one is also curved so the glass would not scrape the ground if it loaded face down.
True, it it drops flat face, but often a drop will hit the edge first.
It should still be more break resistant. At least more break resistant then other Samsung phones. A curved piece of glass trends to be stronger overall.
Samsung phones already break far more often than iPhones, so that’s not much comfort.
So now if the phone lands on its face, and someone steps on it (“accidentally”, of course!), with no support it’s almost guaranteed to break (aww, too bad!).
That would seem to follow. I don’t think it’s going to give them iPhone level build quality but it might make it less prone to break then other Samsung devices…unless someone steps or sits on it.
So if you tilt the phone, it turns on.
Will it fall asleep if you cradle it back and forth ?
The curved screen allows them to make bigger & bigger phablets that can still be (almost) held in one hand!
What a POS, though some idiot will think it’s cool. I think Gates and Ballmer will think it’s the rage, so expect something similar coming out of Redmond.
Is this Samsung’s way of having the parallax effect?
“Polish a turd, it is still a turd!”
Innovate for the sake of innovating. LOL.
They should watch Steve Jobs and Jony videos.
Simplicity is difficult…..
‘Samsung’, insanely grate! 😉
Lool as big as a fucking brick… Lol
Most people do not realize the reason why apple some time takes so long to get something out on the market is, they do it right not just slap shit together and say does it work?