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  • First Galaxy Round Ad Is All Kinds Of Weird

    First Galaxy Round Ad Is All Kinds Of Weird

    Earlier this month, Samsung introduced the world to the first curved smartphone with the Galaxy Round. It’s a Galaxy Note 3 with a slightly curved display that supposedly makes it easier to hold. Now the company has put out its first ad for the device, and it’s a little weird.

    In the ad below, you’ll see the Galaxy Round being compared to the following items – a baby’s hand, a shell, an egg, a lemon, an avocado, a microphone, a matryoshka and more. What do all these items have to do with the Galaxy Round? They all have round edges and that’s about it.

    Samsung is solely selling this device on the fact that it has a rounded front. Does it make the device easier to hold? Probably not. Will you be paying more for the curved display? Of course you will.

    I’m still confused as to what the point of the Galaxy Round is. Sure, a curved display is cool, but we were kind of expecting the curved displays we’ve seen at trade shows. You know, the displays that can curve around an entire wrist to form a smart bracelet of sorts. The Galaxy Round just seems like a gimmick doomed to failure.

    But hey, at least it’s not as stupid looking as the LG G Flex.

    [Image: SamsungMobileKorea/YouTube]

  • Samsung Announces Galaxy Round, Features Curved Display

    Samsung Announces Galaxy Round, Features Curved Display

    For the past few years, display manufacturers have been tempting us with curved displays that can bend, but not break. Most would have assumed we’d start seeing them in futuristic smart bracelets, but Samsung has decided its first foray into curved displays will be hopelessly generic.

    Samsung announced the Galaxy Round – a smartphone with a slightly curved display – yesterday evening. The Galaxy Round packs the same guts as the Galaxy Note 3 so don’t expect any surprises as far as specs are concerned. It does, however, sport some unique functionality thanks to the curved display. For starters, you can tilt the phone to check for missed calls, the current time, etc. You can also tilt it back and forth while playing music to skip tracks.

    Beyond the slight curve and somewhat unique features, the Galaxy Round doesn’t really deliver on the promise of curved displays. Sure, it’s kind of cool, but a lot of us got our hopes up when we saw device manufacturers bending a display backwards. Such functionality doesn’t make much sense in a phone, but surely Samsung could have done something cooler with the world’s first curved display smartphone.

    My own complaining aside, the Galaxy Round is only available in Korea for now. There will probably be an international release, but we won’t see it in the states for quite some time. After all, the Galaxy Note 3 just launched stateside earlier this week.

    If you want to see the Galaxy Round in action, check out this short video that shows off one of the “amazing” possibilities that a curved display provides:

    With Samsung’s curved smartphone being such a disappointment, maybe LG’s curved display that’s expected to launch next month can do better.

    [Image: Samsung Tomorrow]