Folding phone: Present and expected

In a week, Samsung and Huawei have announced two folding phones. They are expensive, but they recall the era of mobile phones before they become smart as they are today. In the midst of the amazement of some followers, the passion of others, the ridicule of others, these phones have caught the public's attention, with one certainty: businesses have fallen into the trap of lack of innovation.

Over the past period, the war around folding phones has been overtaken by the world's largest technology companies. The spark was born of rumors in recent months, before Royole launched the first usable phone, followed by other companies. Here is a list of the best ads for putting on or working on a foldable device:

Samsung
Samsung has unveiled a suite of new smartphones, including the Galaxy Foldable smartphone. The company said it developed the seal and display to allow it to open and close hundreds of thousands of times. The company hoped to compete with competitors such as Huawei Technologies.
The price of the phone is $ 1,980, which is very high, but the company does not rely on it alone to generate profits, after the decline in sales last year.

Huawei
But the Chinese company Huawei was looking for "Samsung", unveiling its new mobile phone, "Mate 10" (Mate X). When you open the folds of the device, the screen enlarges to 8 inches, with a small handle at the back to help you carry the camera. one hand. The company claims to combine the benefits of the tablet and the ease of use of a small smartphone.
The price of the phone is $ 2600, a very high price too, especially since it does not have a front camera.

Ruyol
While attention was focused on Samsung, the company was immersed in the launch of the first collapsible phone that could be bought and used in fact. The phone returns to Rooyol and calls FlexPai.It has a 7.8 inch screen and can be folded in half to form a regular phone.
The phone is in two versions with a price of $ 1,318 and a second of 1,469.

Obo Um Huawei?
Obo offered his folding phone at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Curiously, the prototype is very similar to Huawei's "matt X", particularly with regard to the shape of the seal and the adhesive tape.

LG … promises and ridicule
LG's chief technology officer, IP Park, said the Korean company was working on folding devices with "scalable" devices. The company already has a spinning technology because it has already announced a removable TV that comes out of the vacuum.
But the company was surprised and ridiculed by the new LG V50, which was actually just a pair of two screens.

A phone winds up like a bracelet
TCL, owner of BlackBerry and Alcatel, operates five different folding devices, one of which can wrap around the wrist, such as a wristband.

What about Apple?
Corning, a glass manufacturer that supplies Apple and many other smartphones, offers a collapsible version of the glass, which could be available in less than two years, according to the technology website The Virg.
In 2017, Apple announced that it was investing $ 200 million in the company "to support the research and development of Corning and meet the needs of modern glass processing equipment." In a report released last year, Apple announced that it could announce a fallback device in early 2020.