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Samsung has taken the wrapper off its rumored smartphone with a curved OLED display.
The Galaxy Round, which will launch on SK Telecom in South Korea, has a
5.7-inch 1080p screen the same size as seen on the company's Galaxy
Note 3, but there's a difference — it curves on the vertical axis in a
similar fashion to some of Samsung's OLED TVs.
Check battery life by tilting your phone on a table
The potential benefit of this
screen technology isn't quite clear yet, but Samsung is touting a new
feature called "Round Interaction," which allows you to look at
information such as missed calls, battery life, and the date and time
when you tilt it on a flat surface with the screen off. Samsung also
claims that switching between home screens will feel like one continuous
transition, and has worked on new tilt- and tap-based interactions for
the music and photos apps.
Aside
from the unconventional screen, the Galaxy Round has an impressive spec
sheet. It's 7.9mm thick, weighs 154g, and has a 2800mAh battery. The
camera is 13 megapixels, like the Galaxy S4 and Note 3, and the phone
runs Android 4.3 atop 3GB of RAM and a 2.3GHz quad-core processor. It'll
be released tomorrow in "Luxury Brown" for 1.09 million won (about
$1,013) with more colors coming soon; no details of an international
launch have been made available.
