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Google, Samsung working on ‘special version of Android’ for foldable phone
July 22, 2025
TheSamsung foldable phone— internally codenamed “Winner,” if you can believe it — has been in development for years. It looks like we’re finally approaching the finalization of the project, which means the foldable device is coming very soon.
In a new report fromBloomberg, we learn that the foldable phone is now down to two design configurations: folding in half in a portrait style, or in a landscape style. The portrait style appears to be winning the day (conceptualized above), which means the landscape style (conceptualized below) is likely not going to happen:
The reasoning behind the possible final design choice being the portrait-style model is to make the device easier to hold in one hand, according to sources speaking withBloomberg.
Interestingly, it appearsGoogleis working withSamsungto create a unique version of Android for the foldable phone. Since Android will have to look and function differently on the foldable device than it does on any other, this makes sense. From the report:
A previous reportsuggested we could see the foldable phone at the Samsung Developer Conference in San Francisco in November, but this news that the final design hasn’t even been picked yet suggests that is unlikely. However, a source speaking withBloombergsays that “a team of engineers … plans to accompany smartphone division chief DJ Koh to the event to present a detailed conceptual image of the phone, its features and user interface.”
It is likely the Samsung foldable phone will hit the market in the middle of 2019, although since the device has been in development for so long, it’s possible we could need to wait even longer than that.
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