54 ANDROID ADVISOR • ISSUE 46
PREVIEW
There’s very little to go on right now, but one
mobile leakster has suggested Samsung is working on
a 5in screen phone with a full-screen Infinity Display.
It sounds a lot like a potential Galaxy S9 Mini, but
it could equally be an update to the Galaxy A series.
We’ll have to wait and see.Samsung Galaxy Note X
Samsung is tipped to be creating a phone with
a foldable screen, and having recently passed
certification and now popped up on Samsung’s
support site it could be much closer to completion
than we expected. Bloomberg says the company plans
to announce a foldable phone under its Note brand
in 2018. Could this be the Galaxy Note X, a fierce
competitor to the newly announced iPhone X?Release date
Bloomberg reports that a foldable smartphone will
debut under the Note brand in 2018. Koh Dong-jin,
president of mobile business at Samsung Electronics,
said: “As the head of the business, I can say our current
goal is next year. When we can overcome some
problems for sure, we will launch the product.”
A device with the model name SM-G888N0
(previously rumoured to be the Galaxy X) has
recently passed through Bluetooth SIG, the
certification body that regulates Bluetooth device
standards. The same model has also been certified
for Wi-Fi by the Wi-Fi Alliance, and has passed
through the National Radio Research Agency,
which is Korea’s version of the US FCC.