Samsung working on phone with rollable screen, report claims

Samsung has been one of the first major smartphone makers to embrace foldable smartphones. Now, the company is reportedly looking to take the next step forward by launching a smartphone with a rollable screen.

Korea's Money Today (via SamMobile) claims that Samsung Display is in discussions to supply display panels for a rollable smartphone developed by Samsung Electronics (both companies are subsidiaries of the Samsung Group).

The details are slim; market research company Omdia reportedly predicts that the phone (with the possible name Z Slide) will have a 10-inch, rollable display, with a 16:9 aspect ration, and a 440.6 ppi resolution. According to Money Today, the phone could launch in the first half of 2028; a successor is already planned, and that one could hit the market in 2030.

We've seen rollable phone concepts before; LG was very close to launching one in 2021, but then the company shuttered its entire mobile phone division, and the phone never saw the light of day.

We've also seen several Samsung Display concepts of stretchy, bendy, and rollable phones, but most of those concepts never make it to actual phones you can buy. In the video below, you can see Samsung Display's "Rollable Flex" screen in action.

For a company of its size, Samsung has been quite adventurous when it comes to new phone form factors. Besides dominating the foldable phone market with its Z Fold and Z Flip phones, Samsung was the first major manufacturer to launch a tri-folding phone.