All incoming foldable phones for 2019

With Google betting on a collapsible future for Androidit seems that all phone manufacturers are preparing this type of device. Even Apple is looking at this form factor which offers the convenience of extreme portability when folded and a larger screen whenever you need it.Credit: David Paul Morris / Bloomberg via Getty ImagesObviously, foldable phones and the return of the slider phone will be the hottest trends of 2019. Our folding telephone guide shows the cats that are already out of the bag, but here are all the companies that are currently working on transformer phones:

Huawei foldable phone

the The Huawei collapsible phone (see photo above) seems to be the most impressive to date. It will have 5G and a full 5-inch screen on the front (with a notch for facial recognition), as well as an almost bezelless screen of 8 inches on the outside. Huawei President Ken Hu says it is so powerful that it can "replace a PC".

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The device would have been announced at Mobile World Congress 2019 in Barcelona, ​​Spain.

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Samsung Galaxy F or Galaxy Flex

The technology behind the upcoming Samsung foldable was announced in early November. the Infinity Flex display Samsung will use for the Galaxy F (or Galaxy X) it will expand to 7.3 inches and sport a resolution of 2152 x 1536 pixels.

Credit: Go to digitalWhen closed, the screen measures 4.58 inches with a resolution of 1960 x 480 pixels.

Samsung has not yet revealed many other details, but we know that the device will run three applications on the screen at once, thanks to the new OneUI interface. The Korean company is expected to officially show the phone at the MWC 2019. Without its box-like camouflage, it could look like the rendering above.

Royole FlexPai

The world's first folding phone He is not as polite as Huawei or Samsung, but little Chinese David beat both Goliaths to be the first on the market. Called FlexPai, it has a 7.8-inch AMOLED display with a resolution of 1920 x 1440 and measures 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.3 inches.
Credit: RoyoleThe Flexpai is equipped with two cameras of 16 and 20 megapixels and comes with 8 GB of RAM and 256 GB of storage.

LG

Another foldable that will come out at CMM 2019, according to rumormonger Ice Universe, is that of LG. This phone may be the one that appeared recently. patent discovered by Letsgodigital. This phone, however, has two displays rather than a foldable.

Credit: Go to digitalIt's hard to understand why LG would choose such a design while they are the undisputed leaders of flexible OLED technologyHowever, I do not think this is their bet against Samsung and Huawei.
Credit: Go to digitalIn a deposit with the Office of Intellectual Property of the European Union, LG has applied for the registration of three brands: Flex, Foldi and Duplex. The latter can refer to the dual-screen phone. Flex is already used in LG's curved phone, the G Flex 2. It seems logical to think that Foldi can refer to a foldable screen phone.

There is also a new patent – filed November 20, 2018 – which shows this strange collapsible LG:Credit: Go to digital

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Motorola

The brand now owned by Lenovo may resurrect his legendary model RAZR in the form of a foldable phone, at least judging by the US Patent and Trademark Office patents found by the Dutch technical blog Mobielkopen.
Credit: MobilelkopenAccording to TechradarLenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing said that folding screens could be the key to reintroducing the RAZR, a truly compact pop-up phone that is developing in full screen, in the image of 6.5-inch phones including we have today.

"With the new technology, especially the folding screens, I think we'll see more and more innovations in the design of our smartphones," he told TechRadar. "So I hope that you just described. [the RAZR] will be developed or realized very soon. "

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ZTE

The Axon M 2017 was more flop than foldable, thanks to a dual-screen design that reminds me of LG's patent. But that's not the end of the line for ZTE. In an interview, Jeff Yee, vice president of marketing at ZTE, said that he would getsomething that is really flexible."There is not even more detail on this true folding device.

Oppo

Discovered by Mobielkopen, the Foldable Oppo is the latest to appear in this range of Android Transformer.

Credit: Oppo / SIPO / MobielkopenHe appeared in a filing with the Chinese Patent Office. The document includes four variants of the same drawing, with the display on the outside, like the Royole. There are no other details about this, however.

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2020: Apple?

And finally, there is Apple. The Cupertino company does not talk about its collapsible projects, but there is no doubt that it strives to explore different models, such as this patent on the hinge drawings show.

Credit: obviously AppleIt is likely that Tim Cook and Jony Ive will wait for Google, Samsung, Huawei and the company to solve all the technical problems. But perhaps, if the format takes off as these companies and writers of Westworld think, Apple could be left behind in the next Big Thing.