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It's big and fragile. The price is very high and the shape is very special. Not all the applications you want to use will work. And in the center of the picture, there is a crease that people care a lot about-- Despite this drawback, folding smartphones will not disappear in the future. CES2021: fold the next roll? Samsung unveiled its first folding smartphone, the Galaxy Fold, a strange gadget that emerged from the sci-fi fantasy world in the second half of 2019. The first series of folding smartphones were strange and difficult to deal with, the often broken DeVais. And the price is quite high, and there are problems with applications that make the most of unattractive images with creases. However, despite the launch delays, folding smartphones from Samsung, Microsoft and Motorola were handed over to consumers when some technical problems were eliminated. Today, about two years after the advent of folding smartphones, the technology in the form of this terminal and the software that supports it are gradually maturing.
Samsung's "Galaxy Z Fold3" sells for about $900,000 (about 100000 yen), while Motorola's "motorola razr5G" costs $1400 (179,800 yen in Japan), which is more expensive than ordinary smartphones, so folding smartphones are mainly aimed at technology enthusiasts and early adapters. However, several manufacturers' folding smartphones keen to develop Batabata and collapsible terminals will appear at Mobile World MWC, a big mobile device fair in Barcelona. This movement has pushed folding smartphones to become useful terminals, keeping pace with other smartphones. The latest folding smartphones, such as Samsung's "Galaxy Z Fold 35G" and "Galaxy Z Flip 35G", launched six months ago, some have the delicacy expected by ordinary non-folding high-end smartphones. "with the development of folding smartphones and second-and third-generation smartphones, the early rough parts seen on prototype terminals began to disappear," said Ben Wood, head of mobile industry analyst at market research firm CCS Insight. In the early days of folding smartphones, there were some problems, such as the picture is easy to break away from the body, the outer frame is often used too much, the application crashes frequently, and the crease becomes obvious over time. These problems have not gone away, but they are decreasing. Now the difficulty of folding smartphones has become acceptable to many buyers. However, folding smartphones are still a very clean market. Of the 1.5 billion smartphones sold worldwide in 2021, there are about 5 million folding smartphones. In other words, the number of terminals carrying foldable pictures on smartphones around the world is about 0.33%. "it's almost the margin of error," Wood said. Folding and starting mobile phones may be a drop of the river in the vast market for gadgets, but even so, there are still a considerable number of 5 million. Although it was a niche at first, it has now become a charming and convenient product worthy of serious capture. "if this terminal was a joke, it wouldn't have developed so much," Wood said. "there should be no other manufacturers to join in like this." In addition, Galaxy Z Flip 3 5G was used for several months, but no problems occurred. The growth of the folding smartphone market can also be clearly seen from the fact that manufacturers who are enthusiastic about development have joined in one after another. Chinese companies such as Huawei (Huawei Technology), OPPO (Guangdong Opper Mobile Communications), Lenovo and Xiaomi (Xiaomi Technology) are already selling folding smartphones and will launch new products in the future. Google is also rumored to be developing a collapsible version of the smartphone "Pixel".