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Bloomberg reports that Samsung could launch new smartphone models with significantly more bendability than its previous "Edge" models:
Samsung Electronics Co. is considering introducing two new smartphone models that will feature bendable screens, including a version that folds in half like a cosmetic compact, people familiar with the matter said. The devices using organic light-emitting diodes could be unveiled as soon as early 2017, the people said, asking not to be identified because the matter is private. That would likely give it a head start on new Apple Inc. iPhones. The second Samsung model will have a 5-inch screen when used as a handset, that unfurls into a display that's as large as 8 inches, similar to a tablet, the people said.
Samsung, the biggest supplier of OLED panels for mobile products, has pioneered the development of new screen formats with its multi-sided Edge smartphones. Using advanced display technology may help the company recapture customers from Apple and boost earnings that have slumped for the past two years.
(Score: 1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 07 2016, @06:27PM
Have I mentioned today that I don't own a phone. It's true. I don't own a TV either. I don't use Facebook, and I don't use Twitter, and I don't use LinkedIn, and I don't use Snapchat, and I don't use Instagram, and I don't use Skype. I'm a social refuser, and I don't exist.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 07 2016, @06:31PM
A phone is just a small computer. You don't have to pay for cell service.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Subsentient on Tuesday June 07 2016, @07:12PM
Except 99% of them have locked bootloaders and unremovable bloatware. I will never think of a phone as a computer until I can load Debian ARM onto any damn phone I please. Unfortunately, rather than this situation improving, MS seems to be trying to do the same thing to PCs with UEFI secure boot.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 08 2016, @12:37AM
Welcome to the inevitable outcome of democraticizing technology and making it accessible to the masses.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by tractatus_techno_philosophicus on Tuesday June 07 2016, @06:31PM
I'm not far off from that myself. While I own a phone, SoylentNews is the extent of my online social interaction. I don't have any social networking accounts and I never will. I prefer to live in the real world, thank you.
No moral system can rest solely on authority. ~A.J. Ayer
(Score: 1) by lgw on Wednesday June 08 2016, @12:07AM
Same story here, though I also use the green site. Never seen the need for social media.
(Score: 1) by tractatus_techno_philosophicus on Wednesday June 08 2016, @01:17PM
Ditto, although I don't use the green site. I'm very particular about who I communicate with and where I post things, both digitally and otherwise. I've been reading SoylentNews since the "Slash Exodus" and find it to be most agreeable.
No moral system can rest solely on authority. ~A.J. Ayer
(Score: 5, Touché) by Tork on Tuesday June 07 2016, @06:43PM
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday June 07 2016, @07:51PM
Peter, Peter, Peter.... you used to be a Monkee!
You don't hang out here to be ironic; you're the young generation, and you've got something to say. You're too busy singing to put anybody down.
(BTW, Mickey Dolenz is better than you, lol)
I just had a shower, under running water AND artificial light.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 07 2016, @06:47PM
If only we could get you to stop using a computer!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 07 2016, @06:53PM
You poor thing. How do you order pizza? How do you call for a taxi? How will you contact emergency services if, some day, you've fallen and can't get up?
Unlike you, I own a phone and am not ashamed to admit it. It's wired into my home, so I don't have to be available to anyone 24/7. Unfortunately, 99% of the calls that I receive are robocalls, so I don't bother answering it anymore. The answering machine fields the most annoying machines for me.
A friend talked me into buying a pocket computer a year or two back. I don't use it for much of anything beyond checking the time. It has the capability to connect to a mobile phone network, but the two oligopolists I have to "choose" from want stupid sums of money every month to join their minimal-service clubs so I can theoretically receive those robocalls no matter where I am. No thanks.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Grishnakh on Tuesday June 07 2016, @07:35PM
You poor thing. How do you order pizza? How do you call for a taxi? How will you contact emergency services if, some day, you've fallen and can't get up?
Your examples suck, except for calling 911. Not everyone eats pizza (I do, but I never order pizza because there's no good pizza in this town, just crap like Domino's). And most Americans don't need taxis. Even in big cities, you don't need a taxi, but you might want a smartphone to summon an Uber. Taxis are obsolete.
It's wired into my home, so I don't have to be available to anyone 24/7. Unfortunately, 99% of the calls that I receive are robocalls
That's what you get for having a landline. Robocalls aren't allowed to call cellphones.
The answering machine fields the most annoying machines for me.
How quaint. 1995 is calling and wants you back.
Why would you pay more money for a landline phone that makes you deal with robocalls? I actually looked into the price of a landline where I am out of curiosity, and it's $45/month. I pay much less than that for cellular service.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 07 2016, @08:14PM
Uber is a taxi service... You just order the Uber taxis through an app instead of through voice, web, email, or lifting your arm like you can with regular taxi companies. Some taxi companies even have apps nowadays too.
Answering machines = voicemail and some machines do call forwarding. Does your cell really not have voicemail or a message transcription service?
Cheapest landline service here is $8 a month. My cell service is $6.63 a month and I do get spam calls. The landline has always worked during local disasters, except for a few thunderstorms storms. Cell service has never worked during the local disasters and the quality is too poor to use during the storms.
It's only 2016. Cell phone coverage is still worse than landline coverage.
(Score: 2) by Username on Wednesday June 08 2016, @12:11AM
In the United States you can robocall anyone, cellphone or not, as long as you are affiliated with a political party.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Wednesday June 08 2016, @03:00PM
That's true, but it's still a LOT less call volume than you'd get from all the telemarketer selling crap. The political stuff only happens around election time. And personally, I haven't gotten very much of it; political robocalls (like any robocalls) do cost money, and there's no direct profit in it, and they have to pay for that out of campaign or PAC budgets which are all funded by donations. Telemarketers make money selling crap so the more calls they make, the more they're likely to sell, creating a positive feedback loop.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 08 2016, @01:26AM
Cellphones are tracking devices and I don't know of any that respect your freedoms. [gnu.org]
(Score: 3, Informative) by Username on Wednesday June 08 2016, @12:16AM
Search ebay for old PBX boxes, or download and use asterix on a computer with two modems.
You can set them up so people will have to press a number (one) in order to be passed on to your phone.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 08 2016, @01:33AM
Most of that would be good, if you actually didn't use those things. It's good to inform people that they're being taken advantage of and abused, even if not all of them will be receptive to the message.