Samsung is investigating new form factors to boost the AI capabilities of its mobile devices. The company has adopted an AI-focused approach on its Galaxy phones with the help of Google. Now, it seems that Samsung considers that phones with different designs will help make better use of AI features.
Future Samsung Galaxy phones will combine AI and new form factors
TM Roh, President of Samsung Mobile, spoke about the company’s plans for future products. Samsung wants to combine new form factors with the power of AI to enable new possibilities. Roh said: “When you think about ordinary users of traditional smartphones, our current hardware can satisfy those scenarios quite sufficiently. So maybe hardware performance and hardware features have peaked.”
So, the company believes that current smartphone designs have reached their limits. There is not much more that can be done to offer new experiences that excite the public. For example, changes as radical as phones with physical keyboards to a fully touch format. Also the reduction of bezels to move to a real full-screen experience. This would be solved with new form factors, and Samsung is working on it.
However, Samsung does not want to limit itself to simply offering new designs. The format of future Galaxy phones will seek to enable new AI-powered usage possibilities. That is, to offer features that are only possible by combining both AI and new form factors. In this regard, Roh also said: “But at the same time, this new era of mobile AI calls for new hardware requirements, new performance, new form factors, opening up for new possibilities, so that mobile AI can be better leveraged with new requirements in hardware.”
Modern display technologies would enable the new form factors
Probably, Galaxy phones with new form factors will be part of the Galaxy Z lineup. After all, traditional phones have very little room for improvement beyond making them thinner, reducing bezels, or miniaturizing components. However, folding screen-based devices are another story, as they allow formats such as tri-fold phones. There are also expandable screens, and even rollable ones. Overall, there are many possibilities to explore in the segment.
Samsung is one of the companies that has been investigating tri-fold phones. The company has some device concepts with this design format. A tri-fold phone allows you to offer even larger screens than current foldable phones, but in a device that you can still carry in your pocket while folded. Products like the Galaxy Z Fold 6 offer a “mini tablet” experience when unfolded. However, a tri-fold device enables even larger screens, closer to a modern tablet.
Huawei would launch the first commercial tri-fold phone
Huawei is said to be the first manufacturer to launch a tri-fold phone later this year. It is possible that we will see a response from Samsung (and other manufacturers) as early as 2025. However, there is nothing official about this yet.
2024-07-24 15:08:28