{"id":301020,"date":"2019-02-20T22:57:15","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T20:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=301020"},"modified":"2019-02-20T22:57:15","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T20:57:15","slug":"samsung-launches-galaxy-fold-phone-that-turns-into-a-tablet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/301020\/samsung-launches-galaxy-fold-phone-that-turns-into-a-tablet\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung launches Galaxy fold phone that turns into a tablet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>Samsung\u00a0Electronics Co unveiled a $1,980 smartphone with a foldable screen, a dramatic shift in the mass market for phones.<\/p>\n<p>The device has a 4.6-inch screen when used as a phone and can unfold into a tablet with a 7.3-inch screen, Samsung said Wednesday during a demonstration kicking off its Unpacked event in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>The company said the new phone, called the Galaxy Fold, will be available April 26 and come in four colors: black, blue, silver and green.<\/p>\n<p>Users will also be able to customize the color of the folding hinge.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung\u2019s device is not the first foldable-screen phone, but the company\u2019s brand, reach and technological prowess makes it the most advanced folding phone for the mass market.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a leap that rivals the category shifts not seen since smartphones took off with a broad audience more than a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>The larger screen means users can multitask and view three applications at once, the company demonstrated on stage.<\/p>\n<p>Users can display the Galaxy Fold like a phone, then open it up to see the larger view via a feature called App Continuity, Samsung said.<\/p>\n<p>The company said it\u2019s working with Google on Android and third-party developers to optimize the software and their applications.<\/p>\n<p>The Samsung device includes a new chip and 12 gigabytes of RAM, which is more memory than most laptops.<\/p>\n<p>It also has 512 GB of storage, which is the same as the maximum for Apple Inc.\u2019s latest iPhones.<\/p>\n<p>The phone includes two batteries &#8212; one below each screen &#8212; to allow for the folding mechanism to function properly.<\/p>\n<p>The Galaxy Fold has six cameras across the back, front and inside the fold of the phone.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/297420\/samsung-is-phasing-out-plastic-packaging\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Samsung is phasing out plastic packaging<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung Electronics Co unveiled a $1,980 smartphone with a foldable screen, a dramatic shift in the mass market for phones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":301022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[26,52],"class_list":["post-301020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-headline","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301024,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301020\/revisions\/301024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}