and now various are circulating around the web about a new bendable Samsung Galaxy Skin due to be launched sometime in 2012.
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The Korean giant has dispelled these rumours however, telling UK’s T3 that the Galaxy Skin is "a project that has been carried out by design students and is just a concept product. Samsung was not involved in the project. The students used the name Galaxy Skin and the Samsung logo in their concept to make it look more like a commercial product."
While the Samsung Galaxy Skin is still just a concept, technologies such as flexible batteries, and displays are already in development. However, the other components of a bendable phone, things like the chipset, PCB etc., might still take a while more to achieve.
By the time all this is achieved, specs such as those highlighted by the launch reports (1.2GHz processor, 800×480 graphene-layered display, 8MP camera, 1GB of RAM, 8mm thickness) will probably seem like a joke. Interestingly enough, Nokia had also announced it had started development of a flexible wearable phone, of a different type.
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