Samsung Galaxy Round: Get bent, get buzz -- but get real

Samsung's curved smartphone has generated a lot of buzz but not a lot of reasons to buy it -- other than the novelty effect. The South Korean electronics giant late Tuesday unveiledthe Galaxy Round, a smartphone similar to the Galaxy Note 3but with a lengthwise dip in the middle. That dip forms a curve sort of like a smile or a hotdog-bun shape, allowing the phone to fit the contours of a person's face or gently rock when placed on a flat surface. Samsung has released slightly curved phones in the past, such as the Galaxy Nexus, but this is the first device on the market to curve a "super flexible AMOLED" display, the company says. That doesn't mean the device can bend; rather, the Galaxy Round's curved display is fixed in place by the phone's rigid body.