The biggest obstacle to the popularity of folding screen mobile phones is not a problem of technology and production capacity, but a problem of cost and price. The average price of tens of thousands is simply not affordable for ordinary users, even if the price of the folding screen has declined, the starting price is also above 7,000 yuan. So why is the folding screen so expensive? The reason this is not technical is really that the cost does not come down.
Take the Huawei P50 Pocket, which was just released, the official official announcement of its maintenance price. One of the most expensive is the folding screen, the price is 4379 yuan. This price can buy a top version of a Xiaomi Mi 11 Pro or OnePlus 9 Pro in that year, which is appropriately equivalent to the price of a domestic top flagship.
The price of the motherboard outside the screen is not low to 3399 yuan, and this price can currently buy the annual model of the Snapdragon 888 platform such as Xiaomi 11 and OnePlus 9. In addition, the price of the battery + external screen is 579 yuan, and the camera module is 999 yuan. Everyone adds the maintenance price of these main components together and then corresponds to the price of 8988 yuan, will you find something?
Therefore, when purchasing huawei P50 Pocket, you must remember to buy broken screen insurance and some other protection measures. (Including other folding screen mobile phones as well) because once damaged, the price of this repair will scare you, which is not what after-sales pricing is high, but the cost of the folding screen really can't come down at present. Just like models like the Huawei P50 Pocket, its screen needs to be customized individually, and other models really can't be used. Everyone knows that the smaller the number of individually customized things, the higher the cost, and the larger the relative number, the lower the cost of the individual.
Of course, with other brands entering the folding screen field, the cost of folding screens in the future will definitely be knocked down. Didn't Samsung take the lead in pressing the Galaxy Z Flip3 to about 7,000 yuan? The price of the newly released OPPO Find N is on average more than 7,000. Therefore, the best time to start folding screen should be in the second quarter of 2022, when the folding screen models of vivo, xiaomi and other brands will all be commercialized.