Samsung can be said to have a cornered telephone market but still have a lot of work to do to polish hardware and software. On the one hand, it still has to make the device more reliable and tough to wear and torn, especially a fragile flexible screen. On the other hand, it still has to fully utilize the form factors opened by this device. The new leak shows that Samsung works on an adaptive user interface that will be nicknamed “Split UI” and may not only be folded but also for bread.
Folding phones that turn into tablets are not just phones or tablets. They introduce new form factors that can have their own interaction language, which rotates around the split screen interface. While Android does have original support to run two applications side by side, it has not been designed to take advantage of it even though it is indeed a heading in that direction.
Meanwhile, Samsung may also be preparing for its own solution, one of the famous Tipster @ice Universe has revealed to be called “SPLIT UI”. However, instead specifically designed for folds, this adaptive UI seems to meet all form factors and all forms made by Samsung devices, from the normal “candy bar” to the tablet to fold.
Strangely, this also caused speculation about the Rollable telephone plan which was seduced by Samsung. Without taking a video clip literally, it shows how Split UI will adapt when the phone screen or tablet is extended, the same as the device that can be removed.
Clips also show how UI can even be customized by shifting separators between different panels of the same application. Samsung is indeed quite good at making UI experiments like this, even before Android officially adopted them, and would be interesting to really see it in action, maybe on the Galaxy Z Fold 3 came in August.