Foldable Smartphone Coming in 2016!

According to an article by Malarie Gokey, Samsung is planning on bringing a fully foldable smartphone into the market next year. Details about exactly how foldable or flexible the device would be is yet to be released. While I respect Samsung for being the innovators that they are, I honestly fail to see the point or the motivation behind creating a foldable smartphone. Haven't we already seen foldable phones, i.e. flip phones? I would rather have the current bar-shaped design than going back to the days of the flip phone, but that's just my opinion. Even if the phone will be flexible, rather than merely foldable, I still don't see why someone would want a phone that can bend. What exactly would such a smartphone be able to do better than the flat-screen smartphones that exist today? Act as a bending toy for babies? Please leave your opinions below on the topic and if you somehow have other uses of the foldable/flexible smartphone, please enlighten me!

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Gokey, M. (2015, March 24). Samsung wants to give you a smartphone you can fold in 2016. Digital Trends. Retrieved from http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/foldable-smartphone-screens-possible-in-2016/