A list of all the folding phones that will come to you in 2019. What about Apple?

The New Year will see a new race among companies in this category of devices

At the beginning of the new year, giants of smart phone companies are preparing to deploy their foldable smartphones. 2019 ushered in a new race between these companies in this category of smart mobile devices.

The first of these folding phones comes from an obscure name in the world of smart phones, when the Chinese company Royole revealed the new device called "Flex Bay", closer to the size of a tablet and able to to be folded inside while he works.

This device is already available for sale on the company's website at a price of 1588 USD and is based on an 8.7-inch screen, the Snape Dragon 8150 and an operating system called Water OS.

But this submerged operating system raises many difficulties in finding compatible applications with the device. The name of the company may cause users to think before testing this device and encourage them to wait for what was promised by the major competitors in the field of smart devices.

Samsung

Samsung South Korea, the world's leading smartphone sales company, saw the end of 2018 unveil its collapsible smartphone at a developer conference in San Francisco, United States, according to Sky News.

Samsung introduced its Infiniti Flex Infiniti Flex, a smart and flexible device that converts a tablet into a phone by folding both ends of the screen.

Despite the lack of details, the design chosen by Samsung for its foldable device is clear: it is a tablet similar to the devices currently available on the market, but this device folds in the interior and closes the laptop and one of its external faces on another screen; Phone

Samsung's internal screen measures 7.3 inches, the external monitor measures 4.5 inches and both monitors use OLED technology used in the latest Samsung phones and iPhone developed by Apple.

According to information cited by the South Korean Yonhap News Agency as the head of Samsung's cell phones, DJ Koh, the company plans to ship 1 million folding devices in 2019 to a price of about $ 1,770.

According to the same source, the South Korean company will unveil the tenth generation of Galaxy S phones compatible with fifth generation 5G networks, at the World Congress of Mobile Phones in Barcelona, ​​and will be followed by the detection of the folding device, called Galaxy F in March.

Huawei

But Samsung will not have a competitive market for foldable devices. Huawei's general manager, his director, Richard Yu, at the unveiling of the M1020 Pro, said he would produce a smart, 5th-generation 5G that offers greater speed in the Internet connection.

Huawei will launch its folding phone at the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona in February and will hit the market later in June, according to ETNews.

According to the leaks, the Huawei folding device will be based on two screens: the first is an 8-inch inside and the other 5 inches, which means that its design is similar to that adopted by Samsung, but on screens slightly taller.

The report reveals that the Chinese company BOE will manufacture the screens of the new Huawei device, while Samsung will rely on the screens of the industry.

Apple

But what about Apple? The American company that preceded all its competitors at the first launch of the iPhone and the iPad .. does not speak, as usual, of its future products, and no leakage occurs little before the official announcement of these devices.

This does not mean, however, that Apple will not offer folding phones because the company recently obtained a patent for a flip-top device, but the delay between the patent and the end product is usually long, and this device should see the day in 2020.

Apple's patent drawings indicate that the design of its folding device depends on a seal in the center of the screen allowing to fold both sides of the screen, at the same time. inside or out, the goal being to get as much of the screen as possible and carry the camera in the pocket at the bottom. .

More devices

LG, the leader in flexible displays, will also unveil a retractable phone at a conference in Barcelona in February 2008. The company has submitted to the European Commission for the Protection of Rights a request for registration of the name Foldi which will be launched on its folding phones.

A company such as Motorola, which now holds the monopoly of Lenovo, can not be absent from this new class of smartphones: its patent documents have shown that it would offer a collapsible phone with the same design as Apple.

The Motorola device is based on a 6.5 inch screen, with a hinge in the middle that allows to fold the sides of the phone. But the time when the camera will see the light is not yet clear.

With all this variety of folding devices coming in the coming months, the technology giants will see the user accept this new category: it's the most decisive factor for their pursuit and their evolution , or declining, as is the case with tablets that declined at the expense of big screen phones.