The Samsung Galaxy X foldable phone may be an amazing disappointment

A concept for a folding device Samsung showed in 2013

Before next year is out, science fiction is going to become science fact. Samsung is expected to announce a product of "a new category" in 2019 – a product that has been in the making for... quite some time, it seems. That product is believed to be a foldable smartphone leveraging the company's foldable OLED display technology – a device currently referred to as the Samsung Galaxy X.

Yes, you read that correctly: a smartphone that you can physically fold in two is coming from the ...