Ten millionof units. This is the number of foldable smartphones that Samsung would have managed to sell in 2021 alone, three times more than during the previous period. TM Roh, senior executive at the Korean, has just shared these very encouraging figures in a new blog post published on his company's website last week.
However, as we knowApple likes to wait for the market to prove itselfbefore getting up to speed. We were able to see this with the launch of the group's connected watches but also for wireless headphones or for the fingerprint reader on mobile. It is therefore very likely that Apple will also decide to start manufacturing flexible mobiles, as certain patents already tend to prove.
The competition is already tough!
If the Apple company actually presents a foldable iPhone, its success seems assured, that's not the question. No, what risks worrying more than one analyst is rather the fact that Cupertino will therefore have to deal with heavyweights like the successor ofSamsung Galaxy Z Fold35G. This performance monster features a 6.2 to 7.6 inch panel, IPX8 certified and powered by 12 GB of RAM as well as a Snapdragon 888 chip.
Another stallion of the chaebol: theSamsung Galaxy Z Flip4and its two 12 MPx rear photo sensors, wide-angle and ultra-wide-angle, which have little to envy of the iPhone 13 Pro available at the moment. Here, the 6.7 panel folds in the other direction for a format that is reminiscent of your good old GameBoy Advance SP.
“Mainstream“
As Roh states in his article,which you can read here in English, the foldable smartphone sector is nowmainstream. Understand that the public has adopted the solution and that it hasdemocratized, confirming the expectations of groups having invested billions of dollars in their creation.
Consumers are therefore increasingly switching from a classic telephone to this new format, more practical or more comfortable although stilltoo expensiveto suit all budgets. But with an iPhone 14 costing more than a thousand euros each,a hinged variation such as this conceptand even less affordable may well cost double, at least…See you in 2025?
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