Samsung Galaxy Round

Samsung's upcoming curved display smartphone, the Galaxy Round, is most likely an prototypic device with Samsung producing it in very limited quantities, according to the revealed news from web.
 
The Samsung Galaxy Round is a prototype model to showcase and having test curved OLED displays. Samsung has priced the device steeply even in its home market, South Korea, for this very reason, and doesn't have a lot of units to sell. This new phone launching plan, much more like Galaxy Grand or Mega which is hardly found in the markets of southside Korea. For its limited availability, may be one's have to bring this phone from South Korean market with country locked and lagnuage compatibility problems.It has been heard that, Samsung doesn't intend to sell the Galaxy Round outside South Korea. As the publication notes, it's not the first time that Samsung has launched devices with limited availability just to test the markets. It had earlier launched the SCH-W850, to test AMOLED technology, and the Samsung Galaxy S II HD, to test HD AMOLED displays. 

 
Samsung had launched the Galaxy Round, earlier this month. It much seems like a modification of  Galaxy Note smartphone, with a display that curves side-to-side (horizontally). The phone sports a 5.7-inch OLED full-HD display and is powered by a 2.3GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor and 3GB RAM. It sports a 13-megapixel rear camera and a 2-megapixel front facing camera. The phone runs Android 4.3 Jelly Bean. It comes with a 2800mAh battery and offers LTE-A high-speed 4G connectivity.
 
Its key features include a tilt function which allows users to check information such as missed calls and battery life, even when the home screen is off. Users can also scroll through media files by pressing the screen's right or left.
 
To make an equal racetrack with Samsung, LG, is also reportedly working on a curved display smartphone, which has leaked in press renders and also in web. The press renders suggest that LG 'G Flex' smartphone's 6-inch display would be curved from top to bottom,unlike Samsung Galaxy Round's side-to-side curved display. The phone is likely to be launched probably in November or December, though the pricing, hardware specifications and availability details are not known at this point in time.