The foldable phones are one of the most prominent technical trends during 2019 and the competition intensified during the first month of the new year between many smart phone companies - starting with well -known companies such as Samsung and ending with startup companies such as Royole - in an attempt to revive the phone industry through creating midwivesFolding is equipped with flexible screens.
With a single foldable phone available for purchase and two others expected to be issued this year, the folding phone has become a real reality and not just a theoretical concept as before, and Google is committed to providing Android operating system support for folding designs, so we can expect a lotOne of the smart phone companies is to follow this trend during the coming period.
If you are mixed recently about the companies that announced a new version, who submitted a patent, or from their news about this, are just rumors, here are the most important companies that started the process of manufacturing foldable phones, or it is rumored that they make or sell them already:
FlexPai: available for purchase now
The start -up company Royole - its headquarters in California - has announced its foldable smartphone named FlexPai last November and it is a mix between the smartphone and the tablet, which is now available for sale already for sale..
The phone comes with a screen of the type Flexible AMOLED with its size 7.8 inches with a precision of 1920 x 1440 pixels when it opens and with a density of 308 pixels in the inch and supports the presentation ratio 4: 3 when it opens, but when it is folded from the middle, its program works to control the ability to display all information on the half of the screen.
The phone works with the Co -Qualcomm company, Snapdragon, eight -core, at a frequency of 2.8 GHz, as there are two versions of the phone: the first with a capacity of 6 GB for RAM and 128 GB internal storage at $ 1318, and the second comes with a random access memory with a capacity of 8 GB and an internal storage capacity of 256 GB at a price.
The FlexPai phone can be closed and opened as a book, and works with a Water OS 1 system.0, which is a dedicated version for folding screens from the Android Bay 9 operating system from Google, and regardless of the way you choose to hold the device or its fold, the screen adapts to many different directions and options.
-Galaxy F or Galaxy X: It is expected to be released in March 2019
Samsung is the largest technical company to participate in this competition, so many people are eager to see what it will offer, and it is said that the Galaxy X or Galaxy F is expected to be launched next March.
Samsung Developer Conference 2018, which was held during the month of November, was shown during the month of November, and the phone appeared with a screen of 7.3 inches to look like a tablet when it opens, and when it folds the screen turns into a size 4.6 inches as if it is a traditional phone, and the phone can run up to three applications at one time, using a technology called by Samsung named Multi Active Window, and Samsung will use its new interface bearing the name One UI that adapts to Android system.
The phone also uses a completely new folding technology that Samsung developed and called it Infinity Flex, and Samsung says the display is adequately durable so that hundreds of thousands of times can be folded without breaking.
During the Mobile World Congress conference held in Shanghai in June 2018, the Chinese company Huawei confirmed that its first phone will work with the fifth generation 5G meals, it is scheduled to be announced in February and will be issued at some point at the end of June 2019, and it will have a screenfoldable.
It is possible that this phone will not reach the United States, for security reasons, as the United States government prevented the sale of Huawei phones in the United States and retailers have stopped selling their products, but Huawei devices are still available in more than 170 countries around the world, according to a company spokesman.
- Xiaomi Dual Flex or Xiaomi Mi Flex: The date for the issuance has not been set yet
Last Wednesday, Chinese phone Xiaomi presented its new folding phone on the Weibo social media platform, and its phone came unlike the previous foldable phones that we saw and which only has one curvature in the middle while this phone can be folded on three parts, it is the first smartphoneIn the world with a screen that can be folded on both sides.
"This form is practical and beautiful as it fully integrates the experience of the tablet and the phone," said Bin Li Lin, co -founder and CEO of Xiaomi, but no specifications or information about the price have been given, and Xiaomi is currently choosing a name for the phone through the followers ’vote onTwo potential names: Xiaomi Dual Flex or Xiaomi Mi Flex.
- So far rumors with a patent request
During the month of November 2017, Apple submitted a patent request to a phone with a folding screen - this was in addition to a 2016 and 2014 request for a foldable screen - and according to what came with a request for a patent contract, the device has a flexible part and allows the possibility of folding it.
But while maintaining its usual style, Apple has not announced any details yet, and none of these patents has been achieved in the eyes of the public, and there is no information about what this device is..
- So far rumors with a patent request
During the year 2016, Lenovo presented the concept of a device called CPLUS, a phone that can bend Weld around your wrist as a hand, and although it was just a new phone concept at that time, Lenovo has made a progress to launch a real foldable phone for the masses, but so farYou did not launch any phone of this type in the market.
Also, during the month of July, the company submitted a request for a patent for a mobile device with a foldable composition.
Returning in time for the year 2014, we will find that LG has launched a phone called G Flex, a smartphone with a curved screen, but recently at the CES 2019, LG showed the foldable OLED TV TV that will be offered for sale later this year.
Therefore, many expect that LG is developing its technologies for foldable phones and is already working on a new phone, at the present time we have no idea about the shape of the phone, how much it will be, or when it will reach the markets.
There were rumors that LG will announce a foldable phone during her participation in the CES exhibition this year, but it turned out that these are just rumors and for the MWC 2019 conference that will be held next February, it is said that LG will announce two screens..
- A new version of the Motorola Razr phone with a foldable screen: It is expected to be released during the month of February
The Wall Street Journal reported during a recent report that Motorola - which was bought by Lenovo in 2014 - has revived its famous Motorola Razr but a foldable screen, and it is supposed to be launched with Verizon telecommunications company, at a cost of $ 1500.
The update of the Razr phone will be a smart step from Motorola because of the great popularity of this phone, since its launch in 2004 and the phone has gained a distinctive position of its distinctive design, thin thickness and multiple bright colors at that time.
