Doing the same thing on those S4 Smartphone phones would likely result in cracked-Priceangels.com

In a new video, the Air Gesture phone is shown being pressed down into a flat tabletop surface to “unflex” the display and straighten out the 6-inch plastic OLED screen. Despite the amount of repeated force and tension applied in the video, embedded below for your viewing convenience, the phone withstands the torture and abuse.Samsung expects the rollout of LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) networks across the developed world to drive handset sales in markets that already have a high level of smartphone penetration.

"The expansion of new LTE services, including LTE Advanced, will be the key growth driver," said Jong-Kyun Shin, president and CEO of Samsung IT & Mobile Communication at an analyst event in Seoul on Wednesday. "Until 2017, we expect an annual average growth of near 30 percent in the LTE smartphone market, reaching 680 million units."

For the casual onlookers, new smartphones with flexible displays–like LG’s G Flex and Samsung’s Galaxy Round–look similar to curved smartphones of yore, like the Galaxy Nexus and the Nexus S. However, a flexible display is different than just a curved phone, even if it’s permanently set into a fixed curve and is not meant to be bent or folded by the user, and LG is finally showing off the benefits of its G Flex.

This is clearly something you wouldn’t–or rather couldn’t and shouldn’t–do to your phone, especially if your phone’s glass display is already curved, such as that on the Galaxy S and Nexus S made by Samsung. Doing the same thing on those phones would likely result in cracked and fractured glass screens, and not a phone that self heals.And even though flexible displays released on experimental S4 Smartphone like the G Flex and Galaxy Round aren’t malleable, the use of a plastic OLED flexible display offers a more resilient and durable phone that is less likely to break, crack, or fracture as a typical phone today would. This would make phones even more rugged to withstand normal day-to-day wear and tear as well as the occasional accidental drops and even more physical abuse.On a global level, Samsung expects emerging markets to provide much of the growth in volume for smartphone sales."We estimate that more than 3 billion people are currently using feature phones. So there is still huge demand to upgrade from feature phones to smartphones, and this will be a major market growth driver for the upcoming years," Shin said.vfdS32sd2 

"In the future, we expect emerging markets will drive smartphone volume growth. That is already happening, China and India are the first- and third-largest smartphone markets."Shin outlined a process by which Samsung intends to get become one of the world's "leading aspirational brands"."First, we will solidify our position as number one in smartphones; second, we will become number one in tablets; lastly, we will create new business," he said.

Korean-language ETNews recently reported that Samsung has lowered its internal i9500 S4 smartphone sales forecast for 2014. The dispatch doesn’t clarify what Samsung’s initial shipment goal was, but it cites discussions at an internal high-level meeting and says the company cut its target to 360 million smartphones for the full year next year. That figure would represent growth of between 15% and 20% on-year, according to the report, which is certainly impressive but slower that it has been in the past.