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Has Google Dropped the Pixel Fold?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Last week, we reported an article from 9to5Mac that suggested that Google would ship the Pixel Fold to market next year (Google could release its first foldable Pixel in 2022). However, …

Tags:Android| Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Google| Market Data

Foldables are 12% of Samsung’s US sales

by Bob Raikes

What They Say EINNews quoted Counterpoint Research data on weekly sales of smartphones in the US which highlighted that 12% of Samsung’s total smartphone sales came from foldable smartphones. That is up from 0.6% …

Tags:Foldable Devices| Market Data| Samsung| Smartphone Market| USA

Google could release its first foldable Pixel in 2022

by Bob Raikes

What They Say 9to5Google said that Google may have a foldable Pixel smartphone in 2022. The site suggests that the firm might have to downgrade the 2021 Pixel 6 smartphone which is bigger than …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Google| Smartphones

iPhone Fold could be one step closer to reality

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Phone Arena spotted a patent (“Electronic devices with fiber composite friction hinges”). Most of the rest of the article is speculation and quotes from the the patent application. What We Think …

Tags:Apple| Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Patents

Foldable OLED Volumes to Grow Rapidly

by Bob Raikes

What They Say UBI Research released its forecast for foldable OLED panels and said that it expects 19.1 milion units in 2022 and reaching 49.1 million in 2025. Samsung Display is expected to continue …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| OLEDs| Samsung Display

Best Buy stores will soon offer Samsung foldable repairs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Verge reports that Best Buy in the US is now offering repairs for Samsung’s foldable smartphones as well as the Galaxy S and Note ranges. Some stores have done this …

Tags:Apple| Batteries| Best Buy| Foldable Devices| Repair| Right to Repair| Samsung| warranty

Surface Duo 2 review: Getting better

by Bob Raikes

What They Say TechCrunch has had a look at the latest Microsoft Surface Duo 2 and said that it is much better than the earlier version. However it is “still far from the sort …

Tags:Android| Foldable Devices| Microsoft

Origami OLEDs on the Way

by Arthur Berman

A team of researchers headed by Dong Chan Kim of the Center for Nanoparticle Research, Institute for Basic Science (Seoul, Korea) is developing a new technology to enable the production of foldable quantum dot …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| OLEDs| R&D (Research & Development)

Reviewer Sees Cracking on Z Flip 3

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A reviewer at 9to5Google has had a problem with his Galaxy Z Flip 3, with the glass apparently cracking although it was not use at the time. The reviewer could not …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Glass| Samsung| warranty

TCL Foldable

TCL Foldable Won’t be Launched

by Bob Raikes

What They Say TCL has got a long way towards making a folding phone, but told the Verge that it saw an opportunity for the category. However, it is not currently able to bring …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Samsung