Recently, major mobile phone manufacturers have intensively launched folding screen mobile phone products, brewing for about three years of folding screen track, finally going to fire? Some analysts believe that 2022 is expected to become the first year of the industry outbreak, and the follow-up will continue to be good for flexible OLED, hinge and other related industrial links, but there are also voices that question the high price of products, while the product experience improvement is very limited.
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Mainstream manufacturers gather folding screen track
On December 15, OPPO officially announced the release of its first folding screen mobile phone OPPO Find N. According to the official information, the new OPPO Find N will be equipped with a 120Hz mirror folding screen and the world's first Seiko quasi-vertebral hinge. In terms of performance configuration, OPPO Find N is equipped with the Snapdragon 888 mobile platform, and the 8GB+256GB version is priced at 7699 yuan and the 12GB+512GB version is priced at 8999 yuan.
On December 14, Huawei also announced that it would release a new folding screen mobile phone P50 Pocket on December 23. According to media reports, the new product will adopt a vertical folding design, with white and gold colors. Unlike the previously speculated product name "Mate V", the P50 Pocket will inherit many P series design concepts.
In addition, it is reported that vivo is also working on the development of folding screen mobile phones, may be officially released next year, the market is expected to release in the spring of next year's consumer electronics peak season is very likely.
According to market analysis, Apple may launch a folding screen mobile phone in 2023. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said that Apple is working on launching a foldable iPhone with an 8-inch flexible OLED display in 2023, and Apple needs to solve "key technology and mass production problems" to launch a foldable iPhone by 2023, so if the technology is postponed to 2024, it is also possible.
At present, the world's mainstream mobile phone manufacturers have gathered folding screen mobile phone track, with the continuous iteration of technology maturity, folding screen mobile phone sales next year can usher in explosive growth?
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Samsung dominates the industry
It is reported that in the folding screen products, Samsung has always been at the forefront of the industry. In most manufacturers' folding screen models are still in the PPT concept stage, or the engineering machine stage, Samsung has released a number of folding screen models.
Samsung's first generation of folding screen mobile phone Galaxy Z Fold was released in 2019, and its folding screen mobile phone also opened the commercial landing of the industry. Subsequently, in 2020, Samsung launched the Galaxy Z Fold2 5G, a folding screen mobile phone product, which is considered to achieve the evolution of folding screen mobile phones from hardware to ecology. In 2021, Samsung once again launched the Galaxy Z Fold3 5G and Galaxy Z Flip3 5G two folding screen mobile phones, which have already produced its third generation of folding screen mobile phone products.