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- Chinese smartphone vendors are currently focusing their foldable devices on the domestic market because of rival Samsung’s relative lack of success there
- Samsung, which is already several generations into its foldable devices line-up, saw its best sales yet with the Galaxy Z Flip 3 clamshell
The new Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Flip 3 represent Samsung’s ‘third generation’ of foldable phones, and could be the ones to finally bring the form factor into the mainstream.
It’s natural to compare the Razr to the new Samsung Galaxy Z Flip, and it’s not flattering to Motorola
It’s a big phone that folds up into a neat square, but it’s not worth US$1,400
The Chinese smartphone giant lost between US$60-70m on the foldable Huawei Mate X
The new and improved FlexPai is here, but we don’t know when it’ll go on sale
Will Xiaomi’s foldable be cheaper if it only needs one set of cameras?
TCL is reportedly launching its first foldable phone early next year
The brand new device, which will ship internationally without Google apps, sold out in first-round sales in China
More than 480,000 people signed up to be notified about when the Mate Xs goes on sale
Chinese mobile and telecom giant triggers calls for apology following Huawei Mate XS foldable phone launch
TCL follows its DragonHinge folding phone from last year with a new experimental phone meant to be unveiled at the now-canceled MCW 2020
Company founded by sibling of late Colombian drug lord says it’s sourcing cheap from China and selling cheap worldwide, but some customers are getting skeptical
From Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Fold to a TCL foldable phone prototype, it looks like flexible screens might take off in 2020
Xiaomi’s all-screen phone was supposed to be released in December
The South Korean smartphone giant is planning a follow-up to the Galaxy Fold that might cost much less
Smartphone makers from Huawei to Samsung are not giving up on foldable phones
Lenovo is preparing a ThinkPad with a foldable screen, VR headsets, 5G edge computing and IoT devices
The exposed flexible display is a major concern and it requires a surprising amount of force to fold compared with the Samsung Galaxy Fold
For US$2,000, a phone should be close to perfect, but the Galaxy Fold has too many flaws
The W20 5G comes with improved internals and design compared to the Galaxy Fold
Motorola, Samsung, Xiaomi and TCL are all making flip the new foldables
Vivo NEX pioneered the pop-up camera, but Xiaomi is taking it to the next level
Apple's iPhone 11 has been decried as boring, but I'll take genuine upgrades over eye-catching gimmicks.
But Xiaomi won't be the first to market with a foldable phone: Royole, a Chinese company specializing in flexible displays, beat them to it with the FlexPai. It was really buggy at their launch event -- check out the GIF in this story -- and months on, it's apparently not much better.
The company will face stiff competition from Huawei, Samsung and Oppo