Samsung presents the first smartphone with a curved display-- the Galaxy Round, a device armed with a gently concave 5.7-inch OLED display allowing for what the company calls "round integration experiences."
The device looks nothing like the curvy prototype Samsung showed at CES 2013 as part of the Youm flexible OLED series announcement. Instead the Round offers a number of unique (or gimmicky, depending on how you look at it) UI features, including tilting on one side to quickly check notifications and a one hand operation mode bringing desired controls to a preferred side of the screen.
The larger display real estate also finds use in a tablet-style Multi Window multitasking mode.
Few more tech details are currently available, other than it being 7.9mm thick and weighing 154g while packing a 2800mAh battery and LTE radios.
The Galaxy Round is available now in Samsung's home Korea in a "luxury" shade of brown for around 1 million won (or $1000). We await your move, LG.
