Samsung Show’s cellphone dunking robotic is perhaps my MWC 2024 spotlight

We’re at MWC 2024 in Barcelona, testing all the newest on this planet of smartphones and smartphone tech. Whereas a lot of the occasion is in regards to the marvel and capabilities of generative AI, the Samsung Show sales space has one thing a bit totally different to supply. It has a robotic that’s all about dunking, folding, stabbing, and finally making an attempt to damage telephones. I’m an enormous fan.

The Excessive Robo Problem is a hardcore sturdiness take a look at with an expressionless robotic doing the soiled work. As you’ll be able to in all probability assume, it fails, nevertheless it’s quite a lot of enjoyable watching it strive. First, it dunks a Z Flip 5 right into a bucket, exhibiting off how waterproof the shows are. Then, it’s the scratch take a look at, with our robotic pal rubbing sharp rocks into the display with no seen harm. The influence take a look at follows, with the robotic taking a knife and steel ball bearings to the display earlier than it aggressively folds the gadget for a remaining present of the show’s power. With the demo finished, everybody claps for the robotic, regardless that it’s finally did not do what it so clearly needs: to destroy.

Regardless of this enjoyable tackle the traditional sturdiness take a look at, it doesn’t show something we don’t already know. Samsung Show is famend for its craftsmanship with regards to foldable and flip telephones, as its screens for different electronics, and the robotic is only a enjoyable gimmick that drives the purpose dwelling. It’s additionally clear that the Excessive Robotic Problem isn’t supposed to be the star attraction, regardless of my opinion, as contained in the sales space, you discover some spectacular feats of engineering the model is chargeable for.

There’s the S Flex and its three folding screens, which we’re hoping would possibly evolve from the idea stage quickly if the Samsung triple-foldable cellphone rumors maintain any reality, the amusingly named Flex Liple, a lightweight and easy flip cellphone various, and the Flex In and Out, an idea that folds each backward and forwards, amongst different modern concepts showcasing the newest OLED Samsung Show tech.

Outdoors of bending, folding, and rolling screens, the Samsung Show sales space additionally reveals off a prototype one-inch RGB OLEDoS show, using the Hades 2 trailer as a vivid instance to painting simply how graphically spectacular the recent tech is. It’s examples like this that make it simple to know why Samsung is second solely to Apple within the smartphone market and why so many manufacturers, together with different smartphone producers, flip to Samsung Show once they want high-quality screens for brand new merchandise.

There you could have it, the highlights from our thrilling journey to the Samsung Show sales space and its phone-bending robotic at MWC 2024. For extra of our protection from the occasion, see what we fabricated from the TECNO PHANTOM Final rollable idea and the Motorola adaptive show idea. Or, should you’re on the lookout for one thing with a Samsung Show your self, see our picks for the very best Samsung telephones.