{"id":313240,"date":"2019-02-20T16:07:28","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T21:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/uncategorized\/samsung-just-revealed-a-1980-folding-smartphone.php"},"modified":"2019-02-20T16:07:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T21:07:28","slug":"samsung-just-revealed-a-1980-folding-smartphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurism\/samsung-just-revealed-a-1980-folding-smartphone.php","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Just Revealed a $1,980 Folding Smartphone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-assets.futurism.com\/2019\/02\/samsung-galaxy-fold-300x158.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div><h2>Galaxy Fold<\/h2><p>Korean tech giant Samsung <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/2\/20\/18231249\/samsung-galaxy-fold-folding-phone-features-screen-photos-size-announcement\">officially announced<\/a> its take on the growing foldable smartphone trend at its Galaxy Unpacked event today in San Francisco: the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samsung.com\/ca\/smartphones\/galaxy-fold\/\">Samsung Galaxy Fold<\/a>. The device will go on sale for $1,980 on April 26.<\/p><p>We first <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/foldable-phone-samsung-cost\">got a glimpse<\/a> of the device in November, but the brand has likely been working on the concept for almost <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/foldable-smartphones-samsung-files-patent-rollable-folding-phones\">half a decade<\/a>.<\/p><h2>Serious About Multitasking<\/h2><p>The Galaxy Fold will unsurprisingly pack some serious power,&nbsp;with a high resolution 7.3-inch Infinity Flex Display.&nbsp;When it&rsquo;s folded in half&nbsp;&mdash; Samsung referred to that as &ldquo;phone mode&rdquo;&nbsp;&mdash; the display size is reduced to only 4.6 inches.<\/p><p>It&rsquo;ll also pack an impressive 12 GB of RAM and 512 GB of on-board flash storage.<\/p><h2>Foldable Future<\/h2><p>Competitors include <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/xiamoi-flexible-foldable-dual-flex\">Royole and Chinese phone maker Xiaomi<\/a>. The latter is developing a smartphone that folds on both sides, like a birthday card.<\/p><p>The device seems to be a little awkward to use in phone mode, but when unfolded, the Galaxy Fold could be a worthy replacement for a seven-inch tablet.<\/p><p><strong>READ MORE:&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/2\/20\/18231249\/samsung-galaxy-fold-folding-phone-features-screen-photos-size-announcement\">Samsung&rsquo;s foldable phone is the Galaxy Fold, available April 26th starting at $1,980<\/a> [<em>The Verge<\/em>]<strong><br><\/strong><\/p><p><em><strong>More on foldable smartphones:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/xiamoi-flexible-foldable-dual-flex\">Xiaomi Teases Flexible Smartphone That Folds Like a Card<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p><p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/samsung-galaxy-fold\/\">Samsung Just Revealed a $1,980 Folding Smartphone<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\">Futurism<\/a>.<\/p><p>The rest is here:<br><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/samsung-galaxy-fold\/\" title=\"Samsung Just Revealed a $1,980 Folding Smartphone\">Samsung Just Revealed a $1,980 Folding Smartphone<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Galaxy Fold Korean tech giant Samsung officially announced its take on the growing foldable smartphone trend at its Galaxy Unpacked event today in San Francisco: the Samsung Galaxy Fold .  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurism\/samsung-just-revealed-a-1980-folding-smartphone.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}