ISSUE 46 • ANDROID ADVISOR 55PREVIEWHowever, it now seems the SM-G888N0 is in fact
a rugged phone rather than a futuristic device with
a flexible display. We can hope for a glimpse of it as
CES 2018 but this may be a pipe dream.
Yet another report claims the phone might go
into small-scale production in Q4 2017, ahead of
an “H2 2018 ‘clam-type’ mass production blastoff”.
However, Samsung Display Engineer Kim Tae-
woong claims the technology is not expected to
mature until 2019. A year ago Sammobile reported
that Project Valley would not be available globally at
launch, but that the UK and Ireland, Germany, Italy,
South Korea, Nordic countries, France and Poland
were on the list. It appears the Note X will be more
difficult to get hold of than we expected, though.
For months, we’ve been hearing frequent rumours
about the Samsung Galaxy X, a smartphone that willA patent application filed by Samsung in
late 2016 shows some renders of what
the eventual Galaxy X may look like