Samsung is working on a phone whose screen can change shape, stretching from a 16:9 ratio to 21:9, according to Ice Universe, a tipster on X. The claim was posted on 11 November, with two images of a phone whose lower section slides.
Ice Universe’s pitch for the idea is that wide-screen fans and tall-screen fans could both be satisfied by one device. The post gave no name, launch date or price, and Samsung has not commented. Whether the pictures are renders or photos of a prototype is unclear.
The images show a plain, metal-edged phone. In the second, the lower half of the body sits offset from the upper half, with a pair of rear lenses at the top; the first shows a squarer device with a dual camera. They are labelled unverified here.
The battery is the worry Ice Universe raises. A sliding mechanism eats into the space a cell needs, and the post asks how much capacity Samsung could squeeze in and whether the phone would last through use with the display fully stretched out.
Wider shapes are a theme in the rumour mill this week: Honor’s wide phone is tipped to carry a battery above 8,000mAh.
The two ratios are the only specification on offer, and one post with two pictures is thin evidence for a product that may never ship. A named model, a certification listing or a word from Samsung would be the first sign that it is more than a prototype, and until one of those appears the phone is best treated as an idea under test rather than a product with a schedule.
