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Samsung's foldable smartphone maybe closer to finally launching some analysts are now saying that it could be ready by early next year and the latest buzz is that this folding phone is going to cost twice as much as other top phones prepare to dish out more than eighteen hundred dollars for a galaxy phone that can fold up all these are from analyst speculations first reported by The Korea Times one firm Golden Bridge Investments says that this folding phone is going to have a screen size of 7.3 inches when it's open and it'll be four and a half inches when it's shut also the report says that Samsung may have the prototype ready in time to show this January at CES so what do we mean by foldable Samsung has been tinkering with flexible screens for years the company made this concept video of a phone screen that can just fold flat into your pocket and there is a patent that Samsung has for a phone that folds up like a wallet but what is more likely is something from this other Samsung patent where you could see the phone has two side-by-side screens with a hinge unfolds like a book some refer to this project as Samsung Galaxy X now Samsung would not be the first to make a phone that folds like a book Chinese companies ZTE came out with the ax on em in 2017 and it's got this big old ugly bar down the center when it's open so yeah maybe Samsung will find a way to make the seem less distracting what's your take on a folding smartphone and what does it need to do for you to spend more on it growing up in the age of flip phones I can see there's something charming about the concept but let us know your thoughts in the comments I'm Bridget Carey and you can dive deeper into the Samsung rumors at cnn.com