Rumor: Samsung is making prototypes of a smartphone with two 5″ OLED screens

According to the South Korean newspaper Electronic Times, Samsung will make a prototype of a smartphone this year that has two 5 “OLED screens with thin bezels. The device is said to be a predecessor of a model with one folding screen.

According to ETnews, the two 5″ screens of the prototype are placed next to each other and not on top of each other, like a clamshell phone. The device is said to have narrow screen edges, so that the two screens can be folded out to form a large whole. The large screen surface would focus primarily on multitasking rather than making a single application large.

Samsung would make two to three thousand copies of the prototype by the middle of this year and deliver them to ‘key customers’. It may be providers and points of sale. With the prototype, Samsung would like to experiment with the interface and gather information about how people react to a phone with two screen parts.

ETnews further reports that in the second half of this year, Samsung will start making prototypes of a foldable smartphone with a screen that folds outwards. The manufacturer would have already ordered components for this.

Foldable smartphones have been worked on for years. The biggest challenge is making screens that can be folded outwards, because the material has to be able to stretch. Last week, Samsung announced that the market introduction of such a smartphone will be postponed until 2019.

Prototype foldable OLED screen from Samsung from 2009