CES 2023 Samsung Display prototype may show what is to come for Galaxy Z Fold5 or future Samsung foldables

Earlier this week, a rumour emerged that Samsung had shown a presumed Galaxy Z Fold5 prototype during CES 2023. Although the device in question was exhibited in Las Vegas, it was a Samsung Display prototype, not a Samsung Galaxy division prototype. While this may seem like semantics, Samsung Display is a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics that supplies display panels for Apple and Samsung, among others.

Typically, Samsung Display uses trade shows like CES as a demonstration of what it can produce not what Samsung Galaxy plans to bring to market, as it did at CES 2022 with the Flex G, Flex Note, Flex S and the Flex Slidable. For reference, these prototypes have yet to make it to market in any sense, let alone in a Samsung Galaxy device. In short, the image reproduced on the Naver blog is real, but it is not a Galaxy Z Fold5 prototype.