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Samsung might not wait to sell foldable displays to OPPO and Xiaomi
June 14, 2025
We know thatSamsungis planning to releasea foldable smartphonesometime in 2019, known for now as theSamsung Galaxy X. The foldable device has been a hot news topic for over a year now.
A new report from Korean siteETNews(viaSamMobile) says that Samsung is already planning on selling its foldable display technology to competitors.OppoandXiaomiare called out in the report as already in talks with Samsung regarding the displays.
Usually, Samsung creates a new technology or design process and then incorporates it into its own product(s). After a suitable waiting period where it exclusively makes and sells the tech, it then opens the tech up for sale to other companies. However, with foldable displays, Samsung might move the process along at a much quicker pace.
The likely reason for this — if this is, in fact, the case — is that Samsung wants to create a dependent market. If Samsung releases a foldable phone and it does well, that’s great for Samsung. But if Samsung creates an entirely new smartphone market and most of its competitors use Samsung technology to create the devices in that market, that’sreallygreat for Samsung. It then makes money from its own products and all the competitors’ products as well.
Of course, the trade-off here is that the Samsung Galaxy X — or whatever it ends up being called — won’t be the only foldable phone on the market for a long period of time, which will eat into Samsung’s sales. It would prove to be a risky move if the foldable phone market falls flat.
2019 is looking to be a big year for Samsung with theSamsung Galaxy S10, the Galaxy X, and the company’sfirst 5G phone.
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