Huawei wants to beat Samsung to market with a foldable smartphone of its own

referring to Whatever it is, the Samsung foldable is expected to launch in early 2019. But Huawei wants to beat Samsung to market, a new report from Nikkei Asian Review reveals. Huawei is going to partner with local display supplier BOE for the flexible OLED screen that would go inside this unnamed Huawei foldable handset. While Huawei wants to attract the attention of smartphone buyers, BOE is going after bigger fish. It's not like Samsung will provide foldable screens to any rival, especially Huawei before its foldable phone hits the market.

Samsung has an unbreakable smartphone screen, and we can't wait to test it

In completely unrelated news, Samsung has announced a smartphone screen that it calls "unbreakable," which by definition means it can never, ever be broken under any circumstances. The panel, Samsung claims, is a flexible OLED one with an "unbreakable substrate and an overlay window securely adhered to it." While we applaud Samsung's efforts here, especially as this type of panel might finally result in the oft-announced flexible Samsung phone, we're quite sure that someone out there will keep increasing that drop height to test Samsung's unbreakability claims. Could the flexible phone finally become a reality? Or will the Galaxy Note 9, which is likely to be announced at the event, have this unbreakable screen?

Samsung or Xiaomi? It's a two-horse race for India's smartphone market

as mentioned in India's booming smartphone market is turning into a two-horse race between Samsung and Xiaomi. The new sales estimates reflect a big comeback for Samsung, which dominated the Indian market for six years but was overtaken by Xiaomi at the end of 2017. It opened what it claims is the "world's largest mobile factory" earlier this month on the outskirts of New Delhi. The iPhone is still nowhereIndia is already the world's second largest smartphone market behind China, with more than 300 million users. And despite the dominance of Samsung and Xiaomi, there are opportunities for other vendors, said Canalys research manager Rushabh Doshi.

Samsung rumored to be working on a gaming smartphone

With the wide variety of things that Samsung dabbles in, it was only a matter of time before a rumor about the company working on a gaming smartphone would show up. A gaming phone from Samsung still doesn't make senseNow, the Wall Street Journal's recent report about Samsung's foldable smartphone also mentioned that gaming would be one of the key areas the device would target. To us, a dedicated gaming phone doesn't make sense for a variety of reasons. However, the display part may not be a problem if the gaming phone is indeed the foldable device, as it is expected to be quite costly when it launches next year. But if it's a regular smartphone, then there's not enough of a market for Samsung to be wasting resources on a gaming phone.

collected by :John Smith