It looks like 2019 is going to be the year of the folding smartphone. Samsung has one on the way. Motorola too. Royole already released one. And they all seem to use flexible display technology in different ways, with some folding inward and others folding outward. And then there’s Xiaomi. It looks like the company’s […]
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This could be what the new Moto Razr folding phone looks like
Smartphones with folding displays are all the rage these days, but it looks like different phone makers may be different approaches. Royole’s FlexPai smartphone folds in half so that part of the phone’s 7.8 inch display becomes a 4.5 inch screen. Samsung’s upcoming foldable will bend the other way… so that the tablet-sized screen is […]
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Report: LG to launch a phone with detachable second screen
Samsung’s first phone with a foldable display is on the way, and the company is expected to unveil it at a press event ahead of Mobile World Congress in February. Google has already announced it’s building support for foldables into the next version of Android. And Chinese company Royole has already unveiled its first foldable […]
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Royole shows off flexible displays for foldable phones (and more)
A few months after Royole introduced the first real smartphone with a foldable display, the company is showing off the Royole FlexPai at the Consumer Electronics Show this week. It’s basically a 7.8 inch Android tablet that you can fold in half to use as a phone… but it’s a funny looking one. The device […]
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This could be a flexible-screen smartphone that bends like a tri-fold wallet (video leak)
4 Comments on This could be a flexible-screen smartphone that bends like a tri-fold wallet (video leak)This is the year when folding smartphones with flexible displays are expected to become a real thing that you can go out and buy. We’ve already seen some early demos from companies including Samsung and Royole, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see a few more examples on display at the Consumer Electronics Show next […]
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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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Report: Huawei’s folding smartphone could beat Samsung’s to market
Phone makers including Samsung and LG have been working on foldable phones with flexible display for the past few years. But so far the closest thing to hit the streets is last year’s ZTE Axon M, which only folds in half because it has two separate displays (and a big line that runs down the […]
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Samsung’s foldable smartphone coming in 2018 (maybe)
Samsung has been working on a smartphone with a flexible display that you can fold in half for years. Now Samsung’s smartphone chief DJ Koh says the company hopes to ship a phone with a foldable display in 2018. That’s a bit earlier than we’d heard from Samsung earlier this year, but Samsung’s not the […]