Samsung tipped to be releasing foldable smartphone next year

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Hoping to stay ahead and even pull away from the pack, Samsung is rumoured to be releasing an unusually shaped smartphone in 2017. According to Korean tech site ETNews, the device will reportedly look like a regular 5-inch device at first but once unfolded it will expand up to seven inches. It’s not said how Samsung plans to implement this and the company won’t comment on the veracity of the rumour. But Samsung filed a patent back in March for a phone with a “rollable” screen. But then again rumours about flexible displays have been around for a while so make sure to still take this rumour with a grain of salt.

At this point though, it is important for tech companies to think up the next big thing as current flagships are usually more iterations or slightly better versions of previous devices, there is a need to make more innovative device to fuel growth in the market.

Source: The Independent

Sony shows how its Xperia X smartphones have evolved

Sony is dropping the Xperia Z line in favour of the new Xperia X smartphones launched this week at MWC . Going full-premium in terms of materials and playing up the fact that Sony makes some of the best mobile camera sensors used by the likes of Apple and Samsung, the new Xperia X smartphones feature large 23 megapixel sensors as well as top notch display technology and a more rounded form factor. More than just the smartphones, which have long been some of the most underrated Androids devices because of the higher price, The Xperia line has now expanded to effectively include various accessories.

HP throws its support behind Windows Phone with Elite X3 smartphone

It's hard to imagine what HP is thinking. The company, who famously bought Palm and just as quickly decided to deep six webOS, has seemingly re-entered the extremely competitive smartphone market with a flagship that runs on Windows 10 and not Android. 

The HP Elite X3 smartphone is by all means an impressive device running Qualcomm's latest 820 processor, it seems the reason for the Elite X3's existence is that it will be able to run Windows 10's Continuum feature which will enable the smarphone to pretend it is a desktop with the right accessories and a keyboard, monitor and mouse. While HP promises the Elite X3 for the summer, no pricing or market availability details have been yet released. The Elite X3 may very well be headed directly to enterprise customers rather than consumers. 

Source: TechCrunch

Your future flagship smartphone might have Sony’s dual-camera system

Dual-camera setups for smartphones aren’t exactly that new. But there are rumours of the likes of the iPhone 7 and LG G5 that would be sporting this type of camera system. Adding more credence to the rumours is the recent announcement by Sony’s Chief Financial Officer Kenichiro Yoshida that “major smartphone players” will be using Sony’s own dual-camera system.

He was asked by an analyst what his thoughts were on dual-camera adoption in the next one to two years and what these could me for operations. “Well, for next year, our so-called dual lens – dual camera platform will be launched by, we believe, from major smartphone players. However, as I said previously, recently, our smartphone market is growing and particularly, our high-end smartphone market is now slowing down. So, that may impact the demand or production schedule of dual camera smartphones by the major smartphone manufacturers. So, we believe the real start, the takeoff of smartphone with dual lens camera will be in the year of 2017.”

Source: SlashGear