Slow down Samsung - the Galaxy S5 has only been on sale for a few weeks and we're still at least five months away from an official reveal of the Galaxy Note 4, but that hasn't stopped the company from thinking about their eventual successors. According to a new report, it is preparing to build a factory specifically to produce flexible displays for the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy Note 5.
The report, from Chinese website LEDWN, suggests Samsung is looking to get the new factory up and running as soon as possible to start manufacturing flexible screens ready for its 2015 smartphones, including the expected Galaxy S6 and Galaxy Note 5.
With the Galaxy S5 arriving with a regular flat OLED display and the Galaxy Roundcurved smartphone on limited sale in Samsung's native Korea, it was widely expected that Samsung would be delaying the global rollout of curved or flexible screen handsets until 2015 - despite Samsung's senior VP of product strategy Yoon Han-kil suggesting the company would be revealing "new form factors" when it launches the Galaxy Note 4 later this year.
Samsung's fourth phablet is now rumoured to have a three-sided display, which would put notifications and shortcuts on the sides of the device using a screen which curves around the edges. It isn't, however, expected to be flexible.
That technology could instead be reserved for products launched next year, once Samsung has had time to perfect the technology - or make it cost effective to mass produce. According to Sammobile this latest report matches Samsung's roadmap for 2015, but should still be taken with a pinch of salt. Flexible screen technology is still very much in its infancy, despite being shown off as a working prototype at last year's CES show in Las Vegas.
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