The new market for smartphones has opened. The foldable phones are the biggest issues among other issues in smartphones. Samsung, Huawei, and many other companies dove into this new growing market. Now, Samsung is looking forward to the second generation of its foldable phone, Galaxy Fold.

▲ Samasung`s head of framework and R&D presenting in Samsung Director`s Conference

Jeong Hye Soon, Samsung's head of framework for R&D, said that Galaxy Fold was just a start. Samsung unveiled the new form of the foldable phone in Samsung Director's Conference(SDC). she also mentioned that this new form factor will change the way we use smartphones. She did not mention the name, release date, and price. However, leaked photos and the predictions gave us the outline of this phone. Actually, leaked photos of this phone were shown in Chinese Social Media.

▲ New version of galaxy fold has a clamshell design

Then, what is so special about this Samsung's second-generation foldable

phone? First, its design has changed. Galaxy Fold folds inside vertically and shows a big screen when unfolded. However, this one folds inside horizontally and has a slightly bigger screen than those of normal phones when unfolded. Unlike Galaxy Fold, the whole inner side has a display screen of 6.7 inches, and it appears in square shape when folded. It is also going to be thinner than Galaxy Fold. This second-generation phone is predicted to have a price of no more than 1000 US dollars. It is predicted that this phone will be released at the Mobile World Congress in February 2020.