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 […]
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 […]
Huawei’s foldable phone could debut at MWC (along with Samsung’s and maybe others)
Samsung is almost certainly going to debut its first smartphone with a foldable display at Mobile World Congress later this month. There’s a chance we might also see foldable and/or dual screen phones (or at least prototypes)from Motorola, Oppo, Xiaomi, LG,  ZTE, and others. Now it looks like Huawei is also planning to showcase its first […]
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 […]
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 […]
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: […]
Smartphones with folding screens are almost here
Samsung and LG have been working on smartphones with flexible displays for years and rumor has it that they’re about to hit the streets. But it looks like they won’t be alone. Evan Blass reports that LG will reveal its folding phone at the Consumer Electronics Show in January. Ice Universe says there will be three […]
Samsung says its folding phone will be unveiled this year
It’s been years in the making, but Samsung’s first folding phone with a flexible OLED display could be officially introduced this year. You might have to wait a while to actually buy it though. Samsung Mobile CEO DJ Koh confirmed the company’s plans in an interview with CNBC. While he didn’t share many details about […]
Lilbits 332: Slide-out cameras are officially a thing
First there was the Vivo Nex with its pop-out front camera. Then there was the Oppo Find X, with its sliding mechanism that allowed the front and rear cameras to hide inside the phone when they’re not in use. Now it looks like those two phones were just the beginning. This week Huawei gave us a […]