An Industry Source told ETNews “Although mass-production cannot be concluded hastily since Samsung Electronics still has few other major tasks to complete, I’ve heard that Samsung Electronics had made considerable amount of results in the time being,” Samsung has been in the news for the fodable smartphones. The Korean giant, officially addressed the development of foldable OLED displays in January but without a recommendation of the foldable smartphone. Director of Samsung’s Display division, Lee Chang-hoon said “Development of Foldable OLED is taking place according to our plan. We are planning on mass-production and release of this product by discussing with our partners.” However, it is not new for the Samsung to use OLED panels for its foldable displays and they have used that displays in curved HDTV’s, Galaxy S6 Edge and S7 Edge. Rumors state that this curved display might be the Galaxy S8. However, there is no reference of the foldable display linking to Galaxy S8.

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