At the beginning of 2019, the hottest topic in the smartphone industry is called "folding screen"
On February 20, 2019, Samsung launched the Galaxy Fold in San Francisco.
On February 24, 2019, Huawei released Mate X at MWC.
Both products use flexible screens that can be folded and flipped. For a while, mobile phone enthusiasts boiled over. Folding screen phones seem to point the way for the next trend in the mobile phone industry. Samsung’s mobile director D.J. Koh said that the Galaxy Fold phone responds to critics who believe that the smartphone industry is in a dilemma of innovation and market saturation. However, until 2021, folding screens have still not become mainstream in the mobile phone market, and even worse, there are few people around who use folding screen phones. Why did the foldable screen phones that were so popular at the beginning disappear from the public in just two years?
In ORIWHIZ's view, the folding screen mobile phone is just a product of the head manufacturers' anxiety and self-help.
Samsung and Huawei’s foldable screen phones are different in detail logic. Samsung folds inside and Huawei folds outside. No matter what folding method is used, the purpose is the same: to achieve the pursuit of a large screen in a portable size. In other words, the two-in-one of mobile phones and tablets is realized. When folded, it is in the form of a mobile phone, and when unfolded, it becomes a tablet state. Folding screen mobile phones not only solve the problem of portability but also meet the demand for large flat screens. It looks beautiful. But actually? Huawei Mate X is an 8-inch tablet when unfolded, and 6.6 inches when folded. The size of the Samsung Galaxy Fold after unfolding is 7.3 inches; because it is folded inside, the outer screen after folding is a small 4.7-inch screen embedded in a long, narrow and huge body.
How much improvement does the folding screen mobile phone that has paid a huge price, cost countless R&D costs, and BOM cost? Increase from 6.6 inches to 8 inches. Today, when the size of mainstream full-screen mobile phones is above 6.3 inches, how much actual market demand does a 7-8 inch tablet have? We have to know that the 8-inch iPad mini has not been updated for 5 years. So, in addition to the expansion of the screen, does the folding screen phone have any other benefits? The answer is no.
The folding screen brings only a lot of new problems. Samsung Galaxy Fold is equipped with a total of 6 cameras in order to cope with the two forms of folding and unfolding. Does the complex hinge have enough drop strength and structural strength to cope with common usage scenarios in daily life, such as sitting on the bottom? The flexible screen substrate of the externally folded Huawei Mate X is made of plastic. How will this cope with the wear and tear caused by daily use? How to apply mobile phone film? Is the battery life sufficient? All kinds of details, the product maturity of these two folding screen mobile phones is far from reaching the standard, and will greatly increase the requirements for Huawei phone repair parts, as well as the difficulty and cost of mobile phone repair.
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