Start-up beats major players to launch world's first foldable smartphone

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California-based start-up Royole has beaten major players Huawei and Samsung in launching what it claims is the world's first foldable smartphone. Unveiled Wednesday at a conference in Beijing, the FlexPai mobile phone was made available to consumers in a flash sale on Thursday. Priced from 8,999 to 12,999 yuan ($1,295.49 to $1,871.33), the company said it would start delivering the phones in December. "The Royole FlexPai foldable smartphone provides mobile phone users with a revolutionary experience compared to traditional phones," Liu said. The phone's inherent design will forever change the consumer electronics industry, as well as the way people interact with and perceive their world."

LG files for trademarks of possible foldable smartphone names

LG has been in the race with Samsung to launch the first foldable smartphone and while Samsung has shown their hand, LG still is working on their smartphone. However, LG might not be far behind as the company recently filed for trademarks of possible foldable smartphones. While it's not clear if LG is working on three different foldable smartphones or is working on three variants of a smartphone, it's clear that the company is close to launching a foldable smartphone. GalleryLG did launch a curved smartphone back in 2014 but unfortunately, it was just curved and not foldable so it can't be counted under foldable smartphones. However, this time around, the company indeed is going for the foldable smartphone.

Samsung foldable smartphone name, price and unveil date leaked - Tech News

as declared in According to a report by South Korea-based Yonhap News Agency, the folding smartphone that Samsung teased at the Developer Conference last week won't be a secret much longer. The name, price, and release date of the shadowed folding smartphone that Samsung teased last week is coming into the light. According to the agency's sources, the Galaxy F will likely cost around 2mil won (about RM7,388) and be officially unveiled in March, just a month after the flagship Galaxy S10 is announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona (Feb 25-28, 2019). Accompanying the Galaxy F will be a second version of the S10, except this one will run 5G. At the conference last week, the company stated that the Infinity Flex Display-toting phone will be mass produced.