Mobile World Congress is a place for the weird and wonderful (with a portable focus). This year, Samsung Display turned up at MWC 2025 and started to Flex on the other attendees. Specifically, it showed off a bunch of its upcoming display tech, including a prototype games console called the Flex Gaming.
That wasn’t all, of course. A prototype OLED mobile display that more than doubles the brightness of what we’ve already got — from 2,000 to 5,000 nits — was perhaps the headliner, but it was joined by something called a Flexible Briefcase, a stretchable display, and other developments in OLED technology.
Weird Flex is okay
The Flex Gaming console takes a few obvious tips from Samsung’s range of foldable smartphones. It runs a 7.2in foldable screen — the Nintendo switch makes do with a 6.2in display — in a compact foldable form factor. Since Samsung Display and not Samsung proper was handling this demo, there’s little else known about what’s inside the console.
It was demonstrated running inZOI, an upcoming life simulation title from Korean developer Krafton. The PC specs for this title are considerable but not system-destroying. With Samsung’s mobile hardware, it’s possible that it would run on a little handheld console. The demo included glasses-free 3D, a technology that loads of manufacturers are currently chasing after.
It’s speculated that the Flex Gaming, whatever it winds up being called – assuming it makes it to retail – will support Valve’s SteamOS. ARM support for the operating system needs to be ironed out first, but Samsung’s recent friendliness with Google suggests that the South Korean giant might make a Valve partnership work in the interests of making everyone a little more money.
