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Samsung, Apple, step aside. A relative unknown company ‘Royole’ has just unveiled the world’s first foldable phone, ‘FlexPai’, winning the race to become the 1st to produce a bendable phone.
For many years, big names in the industry like Samsung & Huawei have hinted on the idea of producing a smartphone with a fully foldable screen, but interestingly & quite surprisingly the California,USA-based startup beat them all to it.
Now it appears that they have been beaten to it by Royole, who claims to have developed the world’s first foldable phone. The company made the announcement at a conference in Beijing, China where the device was unveiled. The FlexPai foldable smartphone is priced from 8,999 to 12,999 yuan equivalent to (US$1,295.49 to $1,871.33) & will be delivered to consumers in December 2018.
According to the company Website:
FlexPai is the first commercial foldable smartphone with fully flexible display, a combination of mobile phone and Tablet, with Royole’s 2nd Generation, ultrathin fully flexible display. FlexPai can be used either folded or unfolded, giving it the portability of a smartphone plus the screen size of a high-definition Tablet.
FlexPai’s screen is virtually unbreakable and extremely durable passing tests
where the screen has been bent over 200,000 times.
Royole hopes that FlexPai will revolutionize the industry & transform people’s perception of mobile devices. The smartphone will function as a portable device, & features a high definition screen Tablet with the capacity to support dual screen usage.
Bill Liu who is the CEO of the 6-year-old component manufacturing company reportedly announced during the conference that the company will be investing 200 million yuan in global firms that will be developing software & applications for the device.
Large screens & mobility has always been a bugbear of users. FlexPai claims to solve that contradiction. Liu expressed confidence that the phone’s inherent design would, forever, change the consumer electronics industry, as well as the way people interacted with & perceived their world.
Image Credit: Royole
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