{"id":13984,"date":"2013-09-25T18:58:39","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T13:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=13984"},"modified":"2013-09-25T18:58:39","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T13:28:39","slug":"samsung-to-introduce-smartphone-with-curved-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/samsung-to-introduce-smartphone-with-curved-display\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung to introduce smartphone with curved display"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World&#8217;s largest smartphone maker Samsung said it will introduce a smartphone with a curved display in October, in its bid to maintain its supremacy in a fiercely competitive business. However, the Samsung declined to give any further details including price, exact release date, or even what operating system it would be using.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We plan to introduce a smartphone with a curved display in South Korea in October,&#8221; Samsung&#8217;s mobile business head of strategic marketing D.J. Lee said on Wednesday at an event launching the <a title=\"Samsung launches Galaxy Note 3 &amp; Galaxy Smartwatch\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/samsung-launches-galaxy-note-3-galaxy-smartwatch\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Galaxy Note 3 smartphone<\/strong><\/a> in Seoul<\/p>\n<p>Curved displays are an early stage in screen evolution which is now transforming to bendable designs, eventually allowing smartphones to take on new forms. Samsung has technically released a curved-screen smartphone before \u2014 the <strong>Nexus S<\/strong> which had a gentle curve on it. But in Nexus S it was the glass that was curved, not the screen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-13986\" alt=\"Samsung Galaxy Nexus S\" src=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/files\/2013\/09\/Curved-Display-768x444.jpg\" width=\"491\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2013\/09\/Curved-Display-768x444.jpg 768w, https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2013\/09\/Curved-Display.jpg 896w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Samsung showed off its flexible <strong>Youm display technology<\/strong> at this year&#8217;s CES conference in January. The Youm display could form an arch or simply be curved at the edges and wrap around the edges of the device, enabling the screen to be viewed, at least partially, from its side.<\/p>\n<p>The upcoming smartphone would include something more than what it offered with the Nexus S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World&#8217;s largest smartphone maker Samsung said it will introduce a smartphone with a curved display in October, in its bid to maintain its supremacy in a fiercely competitive business. However, the Samsung declined to give any further details including price, exact release date, or even what operating system it would be using. &#8220;We plan to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":13987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[188,104],"class_list":["post-13984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-android","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}