Samsung's cancelled Project Valley foldable phone revealed in pictures

Last updated: June 18th, 2018 at 10:17 UTC+01:00

Samsung has been working on making foldable smartphones a reality for a long fourth dimension. Nosotros were the commencement to reveal the visitor's plans for a foldable device dubbed Project Valley 3 years ago, although Samsung never got effectually to actually releasing such a phone. Now, images of what is evidently the Projection Valley phone take leaked online, and they are a good indication of why Samsung didn't deem the production skillful enough to bring it to market place.

A fancy accept on a regular smartphone with two displays?

As you tin can encounter in the images, Samsung'south early on foldable phone was just a regular smartphone with a second display panel attached to it with a folding hinge. It'south a rather unattractive design that would take seemed out of place at a fourth dimension when the Korean giant launched the cute Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 border. It would certainly have garnered a lot of attention as no other manufacturer would take had something like to offer at the fourth dimension, but Samsung clearly wasn't interested in releasing a foldable phone just to be the first on the market.

That'south non to say this early Project Valley prototype isn't important, as it'due south proof that Samsung has been serious almost foldable devices for a long fourth dimension. The company went as far as filing a patent for the user interface for the device, and information technology has recently been pretty upfront nigh its plans to release a foldable smartphone at some bespeak in the well-nigh time to come. A contempo rumor said the price tag of Samsung's foldable phone could go every bit high as $2000, and that would advise the company's current design for its foldable device is far amend than what information technology had a few years back.

What'south your take on the foldable phone seen in these pictures?