While CES 2020 has been an absolute hotbed for interesting new tech these past few days, it seems Samsung has something that they don’t want to reveal to the public just yet. According to Korean media reports, Samsung had a private booth at the expo and invited a few officials to demonstrate a secret prototype sliding notebook.

Unfortunately, it seems images were not allowed, so all we have to go off of are claims by people who were invited to the booth. From what we can gather, the product revealed was a 13.3-inch notebook, but sliding the display to the right apparently makes it twice as big. We’ve seen a patent by the company that seems to lineup with this, though no specifics.

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Reception seems to be very positive. According to people who officially got to witness and experience the device, it’s a very innovative change to the standard laptop form factor. We heard previous rumors that Samsung were going to show off a sliding smartphone, but we definitely didn’t expect them to one up the idea with a brand new concept device instead.

Samsung has done surprise launches at CES before to gauge interest like with the Galaxy Fold, but this is the first time they’ve really done something so secretive like this. It’s also not all that surprising as to why they’re doing like this. This is a brand new concept, and though the idea is simple enough to imagine, it’s understandable that Samsung wouldn’t want to reveal their method or design in fear of copycats.

What’s going to be interesting from this point on is how exactly this tech pans out. We can probably expect to see the device go official soon enough, especially since it already sounds like it’s passable for a final product. We’ll be keeping tabs on any updates regarding Samsung’s secret sliding notebook, so stay tuned on Gizmochina as the story develops.

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Samsung‘s been using their flexible displays for many different devices lately. They’ve had the infamous Samsung Galaxy Fold, and the sequel to that device is coming soon as well, So, what’s next on the list for Samsung? Apparently it’s sliding phones according to reports.

We’ve heard Korean media report that Samsung has set up a private booth over at CES 2020 to showcase its concept slideable display phone to potential customers. If this is true, it’s fully possible the company might showcase a device like this at said booth. It’s not a stretch, and it would be an impressive showcase of the company’s engineering prowess. The question is, what exactly would these devices look like?

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These sliding phone patents (courtesy of LetsGoDigital) show us a few Samsung sliding phone concepts for two devices, one extremely long, and another that’s wider. They’re fairly unconventional, but it’s possible the company can find some practical use for it. What’s interesting about these however is that we might be able to see them very soon.

Samsung has done this before  with foldable phones the last few CES expos to gauge acceptance, and those actually materialized, so the slide-out handset may be commercialized at some point, too. It’d be interesting to see if Samsung can push out their first sliding device before competitors like Xiaomi and LG come out with theirs.

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