Late last month, Taiwanese media reported that Chinese manufacturers were looking to release smartphones with curved edge displays this year. In this regard, we saw Vivo release the Vivo XPlay5, making it the first smartphone manufacturer apart from Samsung to release a dual curved edged smartphone.

Now, according to industry insiders, there are several other Chinese manufacturers who are developing curved edge display smartphones and these phones are expected to hit the market by the fourth quarter of 2016. So, before the end of the year, you may have three to four choices of curved edge smartphones, with a majority of them being offered by Chinese makers.

This makes sense to some extent. Samsung developed a technology which was unique, however, the company must have spent millions, if not billions, in the successful development of its curved edge panel. Supplying its panels to Chinese companies who manage to sell millions of smartphones in China and outside, could generate further revenue for the company. But it does come at a cost, the S7 Edge is no longer the exclusive smartphone with dual edge display. So, it needs to be better and offer much more than other competitors, soon to be available in the market, to be considered by consumers.

As for the possible Chinese manufacturers who could release a dual edge curved display, it will most likely be Huawei and Xiaomi. Both these companies were earlier rumored to release such a device. It is said that the Xiaomi Mi Note 2 could be an ideal candidate for featuring a dual curved edge display. Other rumored specs of the phone include Snapdragon 820, 4GB RAM and a pricing of around 3000 Yuan. But these are all just speculations at the moment, so make sure you take most of the information in the post with a pinch of salt.

We are almost into the second quarter of the year (time flies by!), and fourth quarter isn’t looking too far off.

So, what do you think? Is it a good idea for Samsung to supply its dual curved edge display to other manufacturers?

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Xiaomi has always been the manufacturer focused on offering the best possible features at a very affordable price tag. However, earlier today we came across a Xiaomi phone that’s very different than the current offerings from the company.

A new device claiming to be Xiaomi Arch was spotted today in a poster. The same picture further said that the device was the world’s first dual curved screen design phone in the market. According to the picture, both the sides of the display on this model is curved unlike the recently announced Samsung Galaxy Note Edge which also has a curved display edge but only on one side.

The curves will reportedly feature short cut menu’s much like the Note Edge as well as instant notifications regarding calls, messages etc. With this dual curved edge display design, the Xiaomi Arch will have much more real estate on the sides than the current Note 4 Edge.

The overall design looks pretty standard with the ‘Mi’ branding on top and the three capacitive buttons at the bottom. However, remember that this is just a poster and not the real device. Its very easy to cook up a concept like this to excite Xiaomi fans throughout the globe, but we don’t think this will ever materialize.

Samsung has spent a lot of years in research and development of its Galaxy Note Edge, which is also hard to manufacture and therefore available in limited quantities. Moreover, it retails at a very premium price given its cutting edge design and advanced features.

Xiaomi works on a very different strategy than Samsung and hence, its highly unlikely that this so called Xiaomi Arch will ever materialize into a real product.

Still, if Xiaomi ever released a product like this, would you buy it?

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