Flicksbay is the first smart phone for a folding screen

The Chinese company "Royole" has introduced its new phone, "FlexPai", the world's first folding screen smart phone, to the Consumer Electronics Show 2019, currently in Las Vegas, the South China Morning Post announced. .

The Chinese company said in a statement that it was the first time that its "revolutionary and flexible" screen was being shown at the show. The founder of the company, Bill Liu, also expressed hope that the technology developed by Royole would help to "introduce a new model for the future" into the industry.

FlexPai, officially introduced in Beijing, is a "combination of smartphones and tablet PCs" in which the company seeks to "break the traditional concept of customers on smartphones".

The screen measures 7.8 inches and can be bent 180 degrees, according to a process that can be repeated more than 200,000 times, according to Royole, noting that "the screen can not be broken or scratched easily, ending the 'era of broken smartphone screens'.

The phone is equipped with a Qualcomm Snappergron 855 processor and has 16 and 20 megapixel cameras. According to the official page of the Chinese company, the price of the new phone is 1318 USD for 128 GB of memory and 1469 USD for the 256 GB version.