Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Thursday, November 8th, 2018. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, foldable phones are officially a thing, I guess.

Tesla names a new board chair, Amazon's mailing a physical toy catalog, Ford doesn't want

to miss out on scooters and Comcast doesn't want to miss out on home hubs. Here's what you miss today in the world of

tech.

Samsung's developers conference kicked off yesterday and there were some notable

announcements of course for example Samsung debuted what it's calling one

UI a redesign for its Android skin that has a more minimal aesthetic that will roll out next year.

Also Samsung says it will open its Bixby assistant to third-party developers through

an SDK and rollout support for five new languages. But the thing that got all the headlines as it was

designed to do was when Samsung teased a foldable phone that acts as a phone when closed and a tablet when opened.

I say teased and I really mean it.

They dimmed the lights on stage so you could make out the device but not really and said that what they showed off was a disguised

version of the device so as to not give away the full design.

Click the first link in the show notes for the verge piece to see some pictures of the device

on stage and an animated gif. Samsung is calling this technology the infinity flex display and yes what we see is a device that when opened

up looks like maybe an iPad mini-sized tablet the screen is reportedly 7.3 inches, but when you close it up, the backside lights up

and it looks like your average smartphone. Quoting from the verge, up to three apps will be able to

run simultaneously using something Samsung calls multi-active window.

Samsung says it will be able to start mass production of the Infinity Flex display in a matter of months according to Justin Denison senior vice president

of mobile product marketing Samsung isn't saying exactly when we can expect to see more

than just this concept device."

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