Huawei’s latest foldable phone has an 8 inch, 2480 x 2200 pixel flexible display that allows you to use the device like a tablet or fold it in half and close it like a book. But when it is folded it’s also a perfectly usable smartphone thanks to a 6.45 inch, 2700 x 1160 pixel […]
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Royole FlexPai 2 foldable phone is brighter and more bendy
Samsung, Motorola, and Huawei may have been the best-known companies to launch phones with foldable displays in 2019. But Royole was the first company to unveil a foldable phone. It’s just that the original Royole Flexpai wasn’t all that impressive in person thanks to a janky folding mechanism and highly visible crease. Now Royole is back with the Flexpai […]
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Huawei introduces Mate Xs foldable phone (with a modest spec bump)
A year after introducing its first foldable smartphone (which didn’t actually start shipping until a few months ago), Huawei is back with the Huawei Mate Xs. The new folding phone… looks an awful lot like the old one. But it has some key updates. The Kirin 980 processor from the original Mate X has been […]
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Huawei Mate X foldable phone launches in China Nov 15th (for $2400)
Hauawei’s first smartphone with a foldable AMOLED display is almost here… if you’re reading this in China anyway. The company has announced the the Huawei Mate X foldable smartphone will go on sale in China on November 15th for 16,999 yuan, which is about $2,400. That makes Huawei’s first foldable even more expensive than the Samsung […]
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Samsung cautions against touching Galaxy Fold too hard ($2000 smartphone)
Samsung’s first smartphone with a foldable display is finally shipping after a multi-month delay. The company says it used that time to make the phone a little sturdier and harder to break… but for a smartphone with a $1980 price tag, it looks like the Samsung Galaxy Fold is still remarkably fragile — and Samsung […]
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Leaked video shows how the new Moto Razr folds (Updated)
Motorola’s first smartphone with a foldable display is expected to combine new technology and a classic design. The long-rumored Moto Razr would bring back the name of the company’s slim clamshell-style phone that predates the smartphone era. And it would also bring back the idea of a clamshell phone. While Samsung, Huawei, and other foldable […]
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This could be Vivo’s first phone with a foldable display (leaks)
Chinese phone maker Vivo unveiled a new sub-brand called IQOO this week, but the company didn’t say much about what kind of devices it would sell under that brand. Now a series of images posted to Chinese social media site Weibo may have the answer. They depict a smartphone with a flexible display that folds […]
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Samsung Shows Off Its First Folding Smartphone
Folding smartphones are on the way, and Samsung is leading the charge. At the company’s developer conference in San Francisco today the Samsung offered a sneak peek at its very first such device: The Infinity Flex Display. When folded, it looks like a normal smartphone. Unfolded, it’s a tablet with a 7.3 inch screen. Image: […]
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WSJ: Samsung’s folding-display smartphone coming in 2019
Samsung’s been working for years on a foldable smartphone with a flexible display for years. The idea is that you’d be able to a single device as a pocket-sized smartphone, or open it up to use it as a tablet with a larger screen. Now the Wall Street Journal reports that the phone could launch […]
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Patent reminds us LG is working on a foldable smartphone too
Rumor has it that this year Samsung will release its first phone with a flexible OLED display that lets you fold the phone in half. The Samsung Galaxy X would essentially let you have a tablet-sized display when you want one, a smaller phone-sized display the rest of the time, and the ability to fold […]