Samsung's bendable Galaxy X could launch early next year
We may not have to wait much longer to see Samsung's long-rumored bendable smartphone.
The Korean tech giant plans to unveil the phone, which is rumored to be named the Galaxy X, in January at CES, according to a new report in Yahoo News.
The report comes after a company support page for the product surfaced on Samsung's website. Spotted by Dutch site Mobilekopen, the support page shows a smartphone model number that's previously been linked to the Galaxy X.
Samsung's president of mobile business Koh Dong-jin previously confirmed to media the company will launch a foldable phone sometime in 2018, according to Yahoo.
We still don't know much about what the final product will look like, but we have a pretty good idea how it could work, thanks to patent images that were published in October by the Korean Patent Office.
Those images show a a smartphone with a hinge in the center of the device, which allows the phone to be folded in half, similar to a flip phone.
It's not clear whether the final product will look like the patent images, of course, but the good news is we won't have much longer to wait -- if the Galaxy X does indeed launch at this year's CES, then the answers to a lot of our questions are just a few weeks away.
Karissa was Mashable's Senior Tech Reporter, and is based in San Francisco. She covers social media platforms, Silicon Valley, and the many ways technology is changing our lives. Her work has also appeared in Wired, Macworld, Popular Mechanics, and The Wirecutter. In her free time, she enjoys snowboarding and watching too many cat videos on Instagram. Follow her on Twitter @karissabe.
