Next month, just shy of what should have been the one-year anniversary of the launch of the Samsung Galaxy Fold (which unfortunately had to be delayed at the last minute as a result of Samsung\u2019s rush-job design that led to some handsets breaking within hours of landing in reviewers\u2019 hands) the company will unveil its successor to that first-generation foldable phone. And if the early renderings are anything to go by, this launch will be night-and-day different compared to last year\u2019s dumpster fire, when pretty much everything that could go wrong with the release of the first Galaxy Fold \u2026 did, in fact, go wrong. The price was too high, the design and build were nowhere near durable enough, the phone\u2019s screen seemed to become unusable after barely any use in some early models \u2014 and the list goes on.<\/span><\/p>\n On Monday, we showed you YouTuber Waqar Khan\u2019s concept design that takes various leaks and design tidbits that have shown up in the rumor mill to try and present a good idea of what we can expect when Samsung formally unveils the Fold 2 at a press conference on February 11 (when Samsung will also launch its new Galaxy S20 series). Today, we have a new set of images and a video rendering of the second-generation Fold prepared by the Dutch 3D designer who goes by the moniker Concept Creator in partnership with Dutch tech news blog LetsGoDigital<\/em>, and let\u2019s just say if the finished product looks anything like what\u2019s presented here, it would seem that Samsung may have learned the lessons of the Galaxy Fold\u2019s misfire, and then some.<\/span><\/p>\n Right off the bat, one of the things that stands out from the video above and the images below is that a Fold 2 along these lines would be a seriously beautiful device. Thanks to a combination of leaks that we and other outlets have been reporting on for several weeks now, it\u2019s believed that the foldable Samsung introduces next month will sport a clamshell design a la the Motorola RAZR that was introduced last month. We in the press have been unofficially referring to it as the Fold 2, but it\u2019s not certain whether Samsung will officially use that as the branding or not.<\/p>\n The much more attractive-looking design you can see here relies on changes Samsung decided to make this time around that include a hinge you can barely see which Samsung has trademarked as the \u201chideaway hinge.\u201d In the original Galaxy Fold, there\u2019s a noticeable vertical line you can see where the phone folds in half. This new kind of hinge on the Fold 2, meanwhile, is hidden in the housing of the device and will thus be hardly visible at all.<\/p>\n Samsung will also use a new kind of glass for the Fold 2 display that\u2019s less prone to scratches and supposedly as thin as human hair. Samsung\u2019s official name for the material is the perhaps uncreatively named \u201cUltra Thin Glass,\u201d and while it will apparently be more expensive to manufacturer it will provide benefits that include greater scratch resistance \u2014 in addition to being less than 100 micrometers thick, so hopefully making it possible to shrink down the entire bulk a bit.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/ww-vb.mine.nu\/w108\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Yet-another-gorgeous-rendering-of-the-Galaxy-Fold-2-has.jpg\")
Image Source: LetsGoDigital<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/ww-vb.mine.nu\/w108\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1578616077_460_Yet-another-gorgeous-rendering-of-the-Galaxy-Fold-2-has.jpg\")