The annual Apple Spring Conference came to an end, but careful netizens may have found that this time Apple has made a contract with a folding screen mobile phone, in addition to the M1 Ultra processor that has been complained about "first-class paste technology", the iPhone13 series of new colors has been launched, and the iPad Air has been routinely upgraded, and there has been no major innovation. And including Huawei, vivo, Samsung, glory and other brands are hyped up their own folding screen mobile phone black technology, then is this a gimmick or the trend of the times?
Royole Technology, which released the world's first folding screen mobile phone, has recently caused big trouble. In 2018, when the world's first full-flexible screen folding smartphone FlexPai was released, Royole Technology was led by the industry to a new milestone in global smartphones; however, only two or three years later, it was exploded with large-scale salary arrears, debts, and the chairman limit, and the former unicorn Royole Technology was pushed to the cusp of the storm, and its founder Liu Zihong called the moment the "darkest hour" on personal social media.
Although the originator of the folding screen mobile phone continues to have negative news, as Samsung, Huawei and other major manufacturers have released several folding screen mobile phones in the following years, including Huawei's first 5G foldable screen mobile phone Mate X in 2019, and Samsung's folding screen mobile phone W21 5G in 2020, it has pushed the popularity of the folding screen to a new height.
According to the latest survey data from market research agency Sigmaintell, the global shipment scale of foldable smartphones in 2021 is about 7.21 million units, an increase of about 171.9% year-on-year, and it is expected that the global foldable smartphone shipment scale will reach about 14.4 million units in 2022, up about 99.6% year-on-year. What is more exaggerated is that the shipment of folding screen mobile phones is expected to exceed 70 million units by 2025.
Many people are keen on folding screen mobile phones, which are largely related to the game experience of folding screen mobile phones. A screen larger than 7 inches is equivalent to a tablet, so when playing PUBG Thrill Battlefield on a folding screen phone, the screen shows more content, and for enemies that are not too far away, they basically do not need to open the big mirror to aim and shoot.
As the leader of domestic mobile phone manufacturers, vivo has also recently exposed the appearance of a folding screen mobile phone design, according to the information revealed by the digital chat station, vivo this mobile phone was named vivo X Fold, which is vivo's first folding screen mobile phone. The appearance design is also relatively novel, the outer screen is centered on a single-hole curved screen, the rear full focal length is four shots, and there is no side fingerprint opening to understand, and the hard configuration is absolutely TOP level.
Vivo past products in many highly creative models, the upcoming release of folding screen mobile phones remind people of the previous vivo NEX series products, in response to users' questions about this X series, Vivo brand vice president Jia Jingdong also said on Weibo that the spirit of exploration of vivo NEX will be inherited by the X series.
However, the current high price of the folding screen makes some consumers call out to buy, if there is a manufacturer can make the price of the folding screen mobile phone to a more people-friendly price segment, if the price is right, there are still many people willing to buy.