The Samsung Galaxy Fold is set to hit the streets April 26th. The $1,980 smartphone will be the first mainstream phone with a flexible OLED display that lets you phone the hold in half and use it in your pocket, or unfold it and use it like a tablet. And in spite of the high […]
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Sharp’s flexible smartphone display folds in half… the other way
Samsung’s first foldable smartphone closes up like a book when you want to fold it in half. So does Huawei’s, Oppo’s and most of the other upcoming models we’ve seen so far (except for Xiaomi’s prototype, which has a tri-fold wallet-like design). But Sharp is showing off a prototype of a smartphone display that folds […]
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Lilbits 354: What do you call these foldable smartphone designs?
The first foldable smartphones with flexible displays should begin shipping in the next few months. But they won’t all fold the same way. Samsung’s Galaxy Fold closes up like a book, with the screen on the inside, which means the company had to slap a secondary display on the outside that would let you use […]
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Moto Razr could combine expensive folding display with mid-range processor
The first smartphones with foldable displays are coming this year, and so far they’re all… really expensive. The Samsung Galaxy Fold will sell for $1980 and up. The Huawei Mate X will cost $2600. And even the FlexPai foldable phone from the little-known display maker Royole is expected to go for $1290. High prices are […]
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Report: Motorola’s foldable flip-phone will have a useful secondary screen
Rumor has it that Motorola’s first phone with a foldable display will feature classic flip-phone style design and that it may even be sold under the classic Razr brand name. While Samsung, Huawei, and other companies are using flexible display technology to produce phones that can be unfolded to become tablets, Motorola’s device will likely […]
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Report: Samsung may have two more folding phone designs in the works
Samsung’s first foldable smartphone will be available starting April 26th. The Samsung Galaxy Fold is a $1980 device that looks like a 7.3 inch tablet… until you fold it in half so that screen is hidden and you find yourself instead looking at a 4.6 inch secondary display (surrounded by some really big bezels). Other […]
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Oppo’s folding smartphone protoype looks awfully familiar
Smartphones with foldable OLED displays are still pretty new, and so far all of the companies that have unveiled one have taken different approaches to how their phones should look (and even how they fold). But I guess that was too good to last. Oppo VP Brian Shen has posted some images to Chinese social […]
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TCL unveils DragonHinge tech for folding phones, won’t ship until 2020
As expected, TCL is showing off its technology for foldable smartphones this week at Mobile World Congress. The company’s new DragonHinge tech can be paired with a flexible OLED display to enable phones that fold in a variety of different ways. But that doesn’t mean you’ll be able to buy a foldable TCL smartphone anytime […]
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Huawei Mate X is a 6.6 inch Android phone that unfolds to become an 8 inch tablet
As expected, Huawei is throwing its hat into the foldable smartphone ring with the Huawei Mate X. It’s one of the most impressive looking foldables to date, with a tablet-sized screen that folds in half for use in smartphone mode, a four-camera system, a 5G modem, 8GB of RAM, and 512GB of storage. There’s one […]
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TCL’s folding phone prototypes leaked a little early
Mobile World Congress kicks off this week, and smartphone companies are planning to show off a whole bunch of new phones with slim bezels, unusual camera placements, and maybe a little 5G. Plus flexible phones are now a thing. Samsung kicked things off a bit early. Huawei’s bringing one to the party. And we’d already […]