Galaxy Round review: The world's first curved-screen smartphone, in a horizontally curved body.
The first curved-screen phone.
Galaxy Round was Samsung's first phone with a curved display — bent left-to-right for a "rock" effect on tables. Released a week before the LG G Flex, its place as the very first curved-screen smartphone is secure.
01Display
80/100At 80/100 this is one of the strongest display showings among flagship phones of 2013 — 20 points above the cohort average.
02Camera
60/100At 60/100 this is one of the strongest camera showings among flagship phones of 2013 — 16 points above the cohort average.
03Performance
64/100At 64/100 this is one of the strongest performance showings among flagship phones of 2013 — 33 points above the cohort average.
04Battery
64/100At 64/100 this is one of the strongest battery showings among flagship phones of 2013 — 13 points above the cohort average.
05Build
68/100At 68/100 this is one of the strongest build showings among flagship phones of 2013 — 17 points above the cohort average.
06Value
50/100At 50/100 this is one of the strongest value showings among flagship phones of 2013 — 13 points above the cohort average.
- First phone with a curved display.
- FHD SAMOLED + Snapdragon 800.
- Premium "Luxury Brown" finish.
- microSD + removable battery.
- Korea-only at launch.
- $1,000 luxury pricing.
- Curve was novelty more than function.
- Mono speaker.
How this review is built: every section score, spec row and comparison on this page comes from SpecEagle's tracked catalogue — scores weight measured specs against the 7-phone cohort of flagship devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .