I’m completely against concept phones. I think they’re silly. Yes, they always look Cool, but in the end will do nothing but give you. The reason I’m posting this concept phone in particular is because there has been a lot of technical advancements in terms of flexible AMOLED displays and flexible lithium ion batteries these past few months. So, while we’re still probably around 10 or 20 years away from actually making a phone like this possible — I mean, c’mon. It’s pretty damn cool. Just grab a towel and drool over this post for the next 5 minutes.
There was even a set of specifications given that fueled excitement about the concept, such as a built-in projector and grapheme as one of the phone's materials.
Recently, the International Business Times and the Telegraph ran stories confirming the Skin's existence, and a rumored release time frame of the second quarter of 2012.
In a brief statement to UK magazine T3, however, Samsung said the Skin is not in. "It is a project that has been carried out by design students and is just a concept product. Samsung was not involved in the project," a Samsung rep told T3. "The students used the name Galaxy Skin and the Samsung logo in their concept to make it look more like a commercial product."
Fortunately, we will eventually live in a world full of consumer electronics made from flexible, bendable OLED technology that we can wear on our wrists like a watch. The stepping stones are there. Samsung showed off a bendable AMOLED display (that has a very similar form factor to the Skin) as seen in the video and Images below.
Stanford University also showed off a flexible, transparent lithium ion battery several months ago.
So it appears the technology for making a product like the Skin is progressing nicely, but as for when it will hit the market widely, that's still anyone's guess.
Samsung Galaxy Skin Images
Samsung Galaxy Skin Video
Samsung Flexible AMOLED
- TechTabs
- Ishan Farooq
