However, don’t expect it to be arriving soon, as the report claims it won’t be ready until at least 2028.<\/p>\n
Keep rolling, rolling, rolling<\/p>\n
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Korean website Korea Today has revealed that Samsung still plans to release a rollable phone within the next few years<\/a> (via Android Authority<\/a>).<\/p>\n The “Z-Slide”, as it’s been dubbed, is expected to contain a 10-inch flexible screen with a 16:9 aspect ratio and a high pixels per inch measurement of at least 440.<\/p>\n However, it’s clear from the report that Samsung is still having trouble with the extremely flexible tech required to make a display roll up on itself. This is rather unsurprising, as although Samsung has released concepts<\/a> with rollable screens before<\/a>, it’s clear it’s not yet managed to crack the tech, or we’d have seen a Z Slide before now. <\/p>\n Such a device, if finally created, would be a huge change in the mobile market. The ability to roll a screen up within a device that then rolls out like a roll of old-fashioned camera film means a device can be substantially smaller than before, even than devices like the Z Fold 7, which is notably thinner than the early folding phones. <\/p>\n It would mean tablets could be stored with much smaller footprints, and only rolled out when needed. Imagine unrolling a tablet like a scroll from Ancient Greece and you can see why it’s such an appealing idea.<\/p>\n However, the problems seem to be large, as Samsung does not imagine it can achieve such a device for the mass market earlier than 2028.<\/p>\n If anyone can do it, it’s Samsung<\/p>\n Samsung is definitely a pioneer in the foldable phone area.<\/p>\n While often not the first to a specific idea, it has the resources to really throw everything it has at a new form factor, and we’ve seen that in action over the years with the Z Flip and Z Fold series, as well as the more recent TriFold<\/a>. <\/p>\n It’s important to note that Samsung was never the first to come up with this idea, and we’ve seen rollable concepts from brands like Motorola<\/a>and LG<\/a>. However, Samsung is the only one still standing that has a real chance of getting to a rollable phone. At least, first. <\/p>\n Add to this the fact that Samsung creates some of the best displays in the world, and it’s clear that if anyone can do this, then Samsung can.<\/p>\n Watch this space and we’ll see what Samsung “rolls” out in the coming years. However, we would advise not putting off upgrading in the hopes that Samsung will push out a Z Slide soon. For the moment, wait for the Z Fold 8<\/a> for your big screen fix. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While most of us may have forgotten about the rumors, Samsung certainly hasn’t. According to a new report,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[342,111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-502014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-mobile","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/z-fold-7-open.JPG\")
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