【Mobile Phone China News】Sainuo, a well-known market research institution, recently released the "Development Trend of China's Folding Screen Smartphone Market" research report, announcing a series of relevant data on China's folding screen mobile phone market.
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The report pointed out that the total sales of mobile phones in the Chinese market in 2021 were 312 million units, which was almost no increase compared with the previous year. However, folding screen mobile phones have bucked the trend, with sales of more than 1.1 million units in 2021, a growth rate of 187%, and it is expected that this figure will reach 2 million in 2022, and folding screen mobile phones have become the main products of major mobile phone manufacturers to impact high-end prices.
China folding screen hinge related patent data (image source Sainuo)
The rapid maturity of hinge technology has promoted the rapid development of folding screen mobile phones, and in 2020, the number of patent applications related to folding screen hinge technology in China reached 160. Hinge technology has become a strategic control point for mobile phone manufacturers in the folding screen market, and seamless folding water drop hinge technology will be rapidly popularized. At present, the latest domestic folding screen mobile phones such as Huawei Mate X2, OPPO Find N, honor Magic V and so on have adopted this technology.
China folding screen mobile phone sales trend (source Sainuo)
The advent of the folding screen form of mobile phones is actually not short, but few people have learned about them at the beginning. Until March 8, 2019, Samsung released the Galaxy Fold, which made the folding screen mobile phone begin to enter the public eye, and it has been three years since now. In these three years, many manufacturers have not let Samsung be unique. More domestic excellent folding screen mobile phones have followed, and compared with the expensive price of Samsung folding screen mobile phones at the beginning, the price of these domestic models is much closer to the people.
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At present, several domestic folding screen mobile phones on sale, Huawei P50 Pocket official website price from 8988 yuan; OPPO Find N official website price from 7699 yuan; Xiaomi MIX FOLD official website price from 6999 yuan. The price of the folding screen mobile phone has dropped to less than 7,000 yuan, and perhaps in the near future, there will be a model that the general public can afford to consume normally.