Samsung could release the first-ever rollable smartphone as early as next year

Samsung has been marking time in terms of innovation for several years now. While the firm was the first to offer a foldable smartphone accessible to the general public, the iterations of the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip & Z Fold follow one another and are furiously similar. To the point of having lost some of their novelty and originality, especially in the face of increasingly aggressive competition centered around Google, Oppo or even Huawei in China. So to get the machine going again and once again position itself as a leader in innovation, the South Korean firm is reportedly preparing the very first rollable smartphone on the market.

A screen of up to 12.4 inches

The rumors are not new. Already in 2019, Samsung filed a patent for a smartphone with a rollable screen. Here we are now 5 years later, and the information going in this direction is becoming more precise now. According to the Korean publication TheElecSamsung is reportedly working on a rollable smartphone that would feature a 12.4-inch screen when unrolled. In other words, the proposed screen would not only be larger than that of the Galaxy Z Fold 6, but also of the brand new Huawei Mate XT, the famous smartphone that unfolds into three, which reaches a maximum screen size of 10.2 inches.

According to the publication, this brand new innovative model should see the light of day in the second half of 2025, which would make it the very first rollable model on the market. And this would also coincide with Samsung's usual summer conferences, during which the South Korean firm usually reveals its new foldable models. Note, however, that Samsung is not the only company working on a rollable model: other firms such as LG, Oppo or Tecno have already been able to unveil concepts of this kind in the past. But for Oppo and Tecno, the concept stage has never been surpassed. As for LG, the firm left the smartphone market in 2021.