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Into For now we will see him only in South Korea Starting right from now. It’s called Round Galaxy and is the first smartphone in the world to have a curved touchscreen display . Obviously, the unique feature allows the new Samsung device a number of special features, related to oscillation, which are impossible with normal supertelefoni. Type see notifications turning (they baptized Roll Effect) or advance the playlist music making sway to the right or to the left. All that remains is to wait: who knows how many other toys will be out by programmers Asia.

From a strictly technological, is a kind of Galaxy Note 3 twisted in sauce slightly curvy. Although it weighs less and is just as thin (7.9 mm): 2800 mAh battery, 5.7-inch Super AMOLED screen, 32 GB of memory and quad-core Snapdragon 2.3 GHz 800 Chapter cameras: a rear 13-megapixel camera, a front sensor 2. Monta Android 4.3 Jelly Bean. For the moment it’s not cheap, is around a thousand dollars.

Into The Galaxy Round certainly does not come by chance. Some big hi-tech company in fact seem to have decided that, after being flattened, the screens – whether a smartphone, a phablet or a tv – must now surely begin to bend . Only the screens, of course: the structure of the devices is well set according to that of the display. Even LG for example, has started working on this type of solution, but does not implement them in any device. But Samsung has done better and, as in the case of the SmartWatch, he burned all the time by launching the rumored Round.

is not enough. Already in January at CES in Las Vegas, and then a few weeks ago at the IFA in Berlin, Samsung itself had made the first step in this direction by launching two models of televisions Lcd Led by 55 and 65 inch curved display Ultra HD (the so-called 4K, the highest resolution available on the market). Ditto for LG: “Our curved OLED TV represents the beginning of a new era in home entertainment,” they said in Seoul. The idea is to bet everything on the effect cinema. If you still know little on the market later this year.

Below the gallery of hi-tech innovations presented at IFA in Berlin