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Galaxy Fold, The World’s First Mainstream Folding Smartphone, Costs $2,000

Samsung has finally presented its Galaxy S10 lineup and the world’s first mainstream folding smartphone – Galaxy Fold. But there is one big issue with Galaxy Fold. Namely, this device costs $2,000, which, nonetheless, sets a too high price tag for high-end foldable phones. That might turn out to be in customers’ disadvantage when other folding smartphones would start rolling out on the market.

According to some analysts of the industry, people would love to buy a Galaxy Fold, only that they don’t have the financial possibility to do so. And that could prove out to be one significant problem for Samsung which was hoping to revive smartphone market sales with its innovation, sales that witnessed a drop in 2018, for the first time in history.

However, the $2,000 price tag should not come as a surprise for us since Apple with its iPhone X lineup, for example, pushed the prices beyond $1,000. Accordingly, Samsung thought that Galaxy Fold, which is of a superior quality than iPhone X, plus that it is the first mainstream folding smartphone, should cost more.

Galaxy Fold Is The World’s First Mainstream Folding Smartphone

Galaxy Fold boasts a 4.6-inch display when folded. However, when you unfold it, Galaxy Fold turns into a tablet with a screen of 7.3 inches. In tablet mode, you can use up to three applications at the same time via split-screen functionality. Besides, it comes with two batteries, one for each side of the smartphone, and a total of six cameras.

Under the hood, it boasts 12 Gb of RAM, which makes it the first mainstream smartphone on the market to possess this amount of RAM. Besides, you can order it four colors, namely, Cosmo Black, Space Silver, Martian Green, and Astro Blue. Galaxy Fold, the world’s first folding smartphone, would become available on April 26th this year.

As for how the Galaxy Fold folds, Samsung created a particular type of display technology. Namely, the so-called Infinity Flex Display makes it possible for us to fold and unfold the device for as much as we want without tearing or breaking the screen.

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Foldable iPhone Looks Stunning In These Sketches

While, at the moment, we all focus on Samsung’s conference where the South Korean tech company is going to release its anniversary Galaxy S10 lineup and the first folding smartphone, Galaxy Fold, some sketches on the future foldable iPhone emerged thanks to LetsGoDigital. The Dutch site based its renders on a recently filed Apple patent regarding a folding iPhone device.

Nonetheless, Samsung is not the only one going to launch a folding smartphone. Other manufacturers, including Huawei and Lenovo, among others, will also roll out their foldable phones soon. It seems that Apple is not going to miss this train, and the Cupertino-based company also plans to come up with a foldable iPhone, only that we don’t know yet when would that happen.

All we got right now is a patent Apple filed regarding a future foldable iPhone and the sketched LetsGoDigital created based on that patent. Accordingly, it might take a while until Apple’s folding smartphone would launch.

Foldable iPhone Looks Stunning In These Sketches

Be it as it may, the foldable iPhone looks impressive in the new sketches created by LetsGoDigital. And since these renders are based on a real Apple patent referring to a future folding smartphone of the company, we truly believe that this is how the upcoming foldable iPhone would look like when it launches.

Besides releasing their sketched on the folding iPhone, LetsGoDigital hinted that the Cupertino-based company would first launch a 5G smartphone and then would plan to come up with this foldable iPhone. Therefore, since Apple plans to release the 5G iPhone in 2020, we should also expect Apple’s first folding smartphone to come out next year.

“It would be desirable to be able to use flexible display technology to provide improved electronic devices,” the Apple patent reads. But that’s not a suggestion that Apple would indeed release a foldable iPhone any time soon.

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TCL Patent Revealed A Folding Smartphone That Easily Transforms Into A Wristband

Undoubtedly, 2019 would be the year of foldable phones, and, obviously, every tech company out there would love to get a share of this emerging market. While Samsung would present its foldable device in just a couple of days, along with the Galaxy S10, other companies are working on their own such devices. TCL, for its part, is working on something special. In a recent TCL patent, the company revealed a folding smartphone that easily transforms into a wristband, changing the concept of foldable phones.

Samsung and Huawei would most likely become the leaders in the emerging market of folding smartphones. But there’s room for other manufacturers, as well. We already heard rumors that all the big players in the smartphone industry are working on their foldable phones, and we’ve even seen some of the patents or mockups of those upcoming devices.

However, TLC is the latest tech company to draw attention with its concept of a folding smartphone that easily transforms into a wristband, similar to a sort of smartwatch.

TCL Patent Revealed A Folding Smartphone That Easily Transforms Into A Wristband

While the concept of a very flexible smartphone that can also be worn as a wristband is not new since Lenovo had presented it about three years ago, TCL filed a patent including this device. More specifically, the most recent TCL patent revealed five different foldable phones. While the first four of them are looking similar to what we’ve already seen from Samsung, Huawei, and others, the fifth device is a folding smartphone that converts into a wristband.

It would be lovely to see this device becomes a reality, but we can keep dreaming about it because TCL is not going to launch any foldable smartphone until 2020.

Also, next year, it’s not likely that TCL would come up directly with this folding smartphone that turns into a wristband, but it’s not improbable, either, as, by 2020, the market will most probably be flooded with foldable phones that would convert from smartphones to tablets. So, why wouldn’t we also get one folding smartphone that would transform into a smartwatch?

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Samsung Folding Smartphone Leak Also Revealed a Samsung Next-Gen Flagship Tablet

Last Friday, the famous leaks site SlashLeaks revealed the upcoming Samsung folding smartphone in a new video. According to the before-mentioned website, Samsung Vietnam leaked the official presentation footage of the forthcoming Samsung foldable smartphone and the anniversary flagship smartphone, Galaxy S10 lineup. But, surprisingly, the Vietnamese subsidiary of the South Korean tech giant also revealed a next-gen tablet. It seems that the tablet leaked by the source mentioned above would also be launched on February 20th, along with Galaxy F and Galaxy S10 series.

The main piece of the presentation would be undoubtedly the Samsung Galaxy F folding smartphone. It is the first of its kind in the world, and since Samsungs design it, it would be a successful device, most likely. But, we won’t know for sure until February 20th when the South Korean tech giant would reveal everything about it.

Besides Galaxy F and the anniversary Galaxy S10 lineup, about which many leaks and information came out online, Samsung is also planning to launch a next-gen tablet, also leaked thanks to the tech giant’s Vietnamese subsidiary.

Samsung Folding Smartphone Leak Also Revealed a Samsung Next-Gen Flagship Tablet

In the leaked video of the first Samsung folding smartphone, the Galaxy F device, we can also see a Samsung next-gen flagship tablet with almost no bezels. It also appears wider than the current-gen 10.5-inch Samsung Tab S4 and even with a larger screen than the 12.9-inch iPad Pro.

According, the next-gen flagship tablet of Samsung might be the sequel of the 12-inch Galaxy Book 2 which has been the South Korean tech giant’s tablet-computer hybrid that competed with the Microsoft’s Surface Pro 6 tablet.

As the leaked video indicated, this Samsung next-gen flagship tablet, along with the first Samsung folding smartphone and the anniversary Galaxy S10 lineup, would also come out during the “Unpacked” event which would take place on February 20th, 2019, in San Francisco.

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Intel Plans To Join The Emerging Folding Smartphone Market With A Surprising Concept

We expect Intel to keep on producing computer and smartphone components without releasing its hardware, as it’s been doing for many years. However, Intel plans to launch on the emerging folding smartphone market with a surprising concept of a foldable phone.

The folding smartphone market is emerging with Samsung releasing its Galaxy F foldable phone in February and Huawei planning to roll out its 5G folding smartphone later this year. Other manufacturers also struggle to take a share of this emerging market which, according to some specialists, might become very popular in the future.

Now, an Intel folding smartphone patent has been discovered by the folks at LetsGoDigital. It seems that Intel works on a foldable phone that would be different from what the Galaxy F and other upcoming folding smartphones would show. LetsGoDigital came up with renders of how the Intel folding smartphone would look like (you can see the image at the beginning of this article or the one below, for example).

Intel Plans To Join The Emerging Folding Smartphone Market With A Surprising Concept

Source: LetsGoDigital

What makes this Intel folding smartphone be a unique and surprising concept is that it boasts three screen areas instead of only two as the upcoming foldable phones of Samsung and Huawei, among others, would show. Nonetheless, the device can fold in virtually any way users would wish.

However, we don’t know if Intel is going to launch such a device, at least anytime soon. Also, the Intel folding smartphone concept might not be a hint that the chipset manufacturer is working on such a device, but might be an indication for Intel’s partners that the company can produce the necessary components for such a folding smartphone.

At the moment, Intel has not commented on these leaks, but, hopefully, they will come out to explain more about the Intel folding smartphone concept we can see above.

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