Samsung Galaxy Round officially announced

The Samsung Galaxy Round has been officially announced as the first smartphone to come with a curved display. The Galaxy Round specs include a 5.7 inch curved touch display with a 1920 by 1080 pixel resolution, 32GB of internal storage which can be expanded through microSD, a 13 megapixel rear camera, a secondary 2 megapixel camera for video calls, and is powered by a 2.3GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor with 2GB of RAM.

The device is expected to launch in Korea on October 10th and is priced at 1.09 million won. The Galaxy Round will initially be offered in Luxury Brown only, but more colors are expected at a later time. Samsung has made use of the curved display technology to bring some interesting features to one of the first devices of its class.

A feature called the "roll effect" will be available on the device, which shows the time, missed calls and the battery level when the device is tipped toward in landscape mode. You can see the Roll Effect in action in the following video demo

Another feature called the "Gravity Effect" allows you to interact with the display for various actions. For example when you are playing music, you can press the left side of the screen to play the previous track, and tap the right side of the screen to play the next track.

The Side Mirror feature allows you to tilt the phone to the left or right to access certain photos and video in your gallery. Multi Window is included on the handset allowing you to multitask by opening two apps at the same time, both apps claiming part of the screen.


source - Samsung (1) (2) | Slashgear | AllThingsD