Samsung’s foldable Galaxy F smartphone could be priced at about $2,500

Earlier this month, Samsung unveiled its unnamed foldable smartphone, currently known as the Galaxy F at its developer conference, and the company will apparently manufacture as many as 1 million units of the device. It now appears that the device will be priced in the range of $1,900 to $2,500, which is about Rs 1,35,000 to Rs 1,76,000, which is quite steep.

A recent tweet released an image on the platform with the same information.

Wtf #samsung #galaxy #flex #foldable pic.twitter.com/LgRHWCgeKO

— ️ ⚙️ (@bang_gogo_) November 24, 2018

Reports suggest that the foldable smartphone will be launched in March 2019, and that Samsung is aiming to ship Bixby 3.0 with the foldable smartphone.

The announcement was made on 20 November, when Samsung hosted the Bixby Developer Day event inviting developers to expand and discuss on its AI assistant’s ecosystem. The event was held in Seoul, South Korea. It was announced that the company is working on a new version of Bixby that’ll bring more features and services, which will be installed on the upcoming foldable phone.

The company CEO DJ Koh recently said that, “possibly when we start selling the foldable phone, it may be a niche market… but definitely, it will expand. I’m positive that we do need a foldable phone.”

Samsung describes its folding phone technology as Infinity Flex Display and said that mass-production of the device should begin in a “matter of months.”

The display on the tablet has a resolution of 1536 x 2152 pixels which gives it a 4.2:3 aspect ratio and a screen size of 7.3-inches. When folded, the device is an 840 x 1960 display with a tall aspect ratio of 21:9 and screen size of 4.58-inches.