Talk of curved smartphones has been ramping up over the last few weeks, and Samsung just announced its own curved phone, the Galaxy Round, last week. The company is releasing the Round in South Korea and has yet to mention plans for an international launch. Is that because the Galaxy Round is more of an experiment than anything else?
According to SamMobile, the the phone is more of a test device to see how the new form-factor fairs in the market. SamMobile cites a source that says Samsung has only produced a limited number of the Galaxy Round because it is a prototype device to test the curved OLED displays. Samsung did the same thing with the Samsung Jet SCH-W850 and the Galaxy S II HD LTE SHV-E120S, both of which were only produced in limited quantities to test AMOLED and HD AMOLED displays. This makes sense when you consider the fact that the Galaxy Round doesn't really bring anything new to the table aside from its curved display (the specs are pretty much the same as the Note 3). We imagine Samsung will take what it's learned from the Round and apply it to a more serious effort.
The Galaxy Round features a 5.7 inch 1080p Super AMOLED display powered by a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 SoC (MSM 8974) clocked at 2.3 GHz, 3 GB of RAM and a 2800 mAh battery. The device also provides 32 GB of internal storage, and a microSD card slot for up to 64 GB of additional storage.
Samsung is not the only company dabbling in curved displays. LG apparently has its own offering, the LG G Flex, which it plans to launch next month.
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