Samsung finally unveiled its much-rumored foldable smartphone last week at the Samsung Developer Conference 2019. The rather clumsy looking foldable smartphone speculated to be Galaxy F is expected to be released early next year.
In apress conferencefor South Korean journalists, DJ Koh, the head of Samsung Mobile business, said that the company would producemore than one million unitsof the foldable smartphone. Discussing the phone, Koh said it will “definitelylaunch” in the first half of 2019. The phone will be first pushed in the markets like theUS and South Koreawith the support for limited carriers initially
According to Koh, “Given Samsung Electronics’ product capacity, for a flagship product, we produce a minimum of one million unit. For thefoldable phone, initial stock will be over one million units, andif the market reaction is positive, we can produce more.”
Koh also said that they met with Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai and both the companies have discussed the foldable phone’s user experience. He added that the company does not believe that the foldable smartphone will overhaul the conventional smartphone phone factor, and the company is also exploring rollable and stretchable phones technology.
Areportby CNET has suggested that the unnamed foldable smartphone from Samsung willcost more than $1500as the users are getting a tablet as well as a smartphone in a single device.
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