Forrad-looking: Samsung is reportedly cooking a foldable Milky way Book in its labs, and with a bit of luck, we might be able to purchase one in the coming years. The company doesn't have the first-mover advantage here, but the device is rumored to come with a 17-inch display when unfolded, and there are many missing details that could plough it into an aspirational auto for other manufacturers.

Samsung'southward obsession with foldable displays is hardly a hole-and-corner at this point, and the company has already shown it's committed to getting foldable smartphones right, from the tiny engineering details required to brand them durable to the cost optimizations that make them affordable for enthusiasts who want to be on the bleeding edge.

The next logical step would be to get bolder with the class factor, and the Korean giant is certainly exploring more options in its labs. However, the rumor manufacturing plant says the company is ready to move across smartphones and into the foldable PC territory. Co-ordinate to reliable leaker Water ice Universe, the outset step is the Milky way Book Fold 17, a massive laptop that will eschew the traditional keyboard and trackpad to let the screen to govern both the visual feedback and the input.

Details are deficient at this point, but Samsung did open up up at SID 2022 about its vision for what a foldable clamshell should look like. When fully extended, this device would look exactly similar a 17-inch tablet with a high-resolution OLED brandish. The webcam would nigh likely be embedded under the screen, and when the device is folded halfway, yous'd be given a keyboard or any relevant gear up of controls on the bottom half of the display based on the app that is open on the top half.

The concept isn't entirely new -- last twelvemonth'southward Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold comes to mind -- but the visitor has refused to call it a laptop and instead wants information technology to be perceived as a dissever category of PC. If Samsung does decide to bring a Milky way Volume Fold 17 to marketplace, it volition likely need to position the device as anything but an oversized tablet or a gimped touchscreen laptop.

The outset iteration may well end upward being an expensive and unfinished production but like the Galaxy Fold of yesteryear, but perchance that's exactly what this new category needs if it ever has a adventure of taking off.