Samsung Display Wowed Us With Its Concept Devices at MWC 2025

A pair of hands holding a foldable gaming device at MWC

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Foldable game console concept

Samsung Display always comes to MWC with interesting concepts exploring new ways to use phone and device screens. This one, which looks like a Galaxy Z Flip 6 with a wrap-around game controller case, imagines how to make a foldable game console (with innovations like matching thumbstick and button circles that fit together when closed).

A folding display game console that looks like a clamshell foldable phone with a bright yellow case wrapped around it, on the edge of which are buttons and thumbsticks.

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Samsung Display MWC 2025 folding game console buttons

A closer look at Samsung Display's foldable game console with its novel innovation: on each side are a circle of buttons surrounding a hollow divot and a thumbstick, cleverly inverted on either side so that they can fold closed into each other.

A game console that looks like a folding phone with a case around it is folded up, showing how its thumbsticks fit into the button circles on the opposite side.

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Samsung Display MWC 2025 folding game console

Samsung Display's foldable game console has thumbsticks and buttons arranged in a hollow circle on both sides, though their arrangement (which is on top or bottom) is inverted in relation to each other. When folded up, each side fits neatly into the other.

A briefcase that opens into a bid folding display

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Flexible Cabinbag briefcase laptop concept

Other Samsung Display concepts at MWC 2025 reimagine existing formats, like 2-in-1 laptops and tablets, into practical possibilities -- like this slim metal-exterior briefcase that unfolds into an 18.1-inch flexible OLED display. It looks like what a Wall Street suit would take to a pitch meeting in a few years' time.

A foldable display the size of a large laptop screen that can be folded in half into a briefcase, shown folded into a slim metal box with a carrying handle.

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MWC 2025 Samsung Display concept flexible briefcase

Another look at Samsung Display's Flexible Briefcase concept, showing how it looks on folded up on the right with its carrying handle.

A long screen with double hinges that fold the edges inward

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A different take on a clamshell foldable

Samsung's dual-folding concept was like a variation on the Galaxy Z Flip but with two folds instead of one. While that means twice as much opportunity for hinges to fail or other complications, it's an intriguing concept that could result in very different foldable concepts in the coming years.

A concept foldable phone, showing two segments that fold over the larger middle segment instead of two segments folding together.

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Samsung Display MWC 2025 new clamshell concept

At MWC 2025, Samsung Display showed off a clamshell foldable with two hinges instead of one, which offers a different format. As seen here, they don't even meet in the middle when folded closed.

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A clamshell foldable with a retro-futuristic design

If you had to guess, would you say this is a phone from the past or the future? This concept device reimagines clamshell foldables, with the outer front display reshaped into a polygon with angled gray plastic evoking a sense of retro-futuristic science fiction like Disney parks's Space Mountain or the gray plastic boxes of early PCs and Apple computers.