Vivo’s new foldables shame Z Fold 5 with thinner bodies and bigger batteries

While Samsung was the best foldable phone maker for a few years, it is sad to see the company losing the race to its competitors from China, at least when it comes to technological breakthroughs. Rival smartphone brands from China are making foldable phones that are thinner, lighter, and they have better specifications than Samsung’s […]

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Tecno shows off a rollable phone prototype, better UTG for foldables and color changing tech

Last year Tecno presented a rollable phone concept called the Phantom Ultimate. This was just a concept, though, seen only in demo videos – but now the company has some actual prototypes and brought them to the MWC. We got some hands-on time with the Ultimate and a couple of other interesting ideas that are […]

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TrendForce: 15.9 million foldables shipped in 2023, Samsung was the clear-cut leader

An estimated 15.9 million foldable phones were shipped last year as per the latest TrendForce report. The figure represents a 25% year-over-year rise and saw foldables climb up to a combined 1.4% market share of all smartphone shipments. TrendForce suggests the low adoption rate of foldables is mainly driven by their high price points and […]

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Oppo isn’t quitting, will keep competing against Samsung’s foldables

Oppo is one of the handful of companies making foldable phones. Like all of them, it aims to challenge Samsung’s dominance of the foldable phone market. The company has launched a few models so far and the reactions have been mixed. A recent rumor, a rather outlandish one at that, claimed that Oppo was giving […]

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Galaxy Z Fold 2 helped Google make Android better on foldables

Google was pretty late to the foldable party, and its first foldable phone was launched four generations after Samsung launched its first foldable smartphone. Despite being the lead Android developer, Google was also late optimizing Android for foldable devices. It has now been revealed that Google took Samsung’s help to optimize Android for foldable phones. […]

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Oppo and vivo to give up on foldables while Huawei works on a 10-inch tri-folding device

According to a very sketchy sounding rumor, Oppo and vivo are ready to call it quits on foldables. This presumably includes OnePlus as well, since the OnePlus Open is basically the international version of Oppo’s Find N3. The reason for this decision by these brands is allegedly that their foldable market share fell “significantly” last […]

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Why Oppo ditching foldables could be bad news for Samsung fans

Samsung is the leading manufacturer of foldable phones. Even though there have been a few other companies, mostly Chinese, that have made similar devices the Korean giant remains in a league of its own right now. Its Galaxy Z Fold and Z Flip lineups are a class apart. The clamshell foldable Galaxy Z Flip series […]

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Deals: Motorola’s Razr foldables are cheaper than ever, non-folding Motos are on sale too

Foldables are now attainable, if not quite cheap. The Motorola Razr 40 Ultra is down to €800, its lowest price yet. It combines a Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 with a 6.9” FHD+ 165Hz LTPO OLED internal display and a usable 3.6” cover display (144Hz, both 10-bit). The 12+13MP camera leaves something to be desired, but […]

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Samsung’s making some changes to bring us cheaper foldables

Even as Samsung may not be rushing to launch mid-range foldable phones, the company could benefit from a price cut for its existing models, particularly for the Galaxy Z Fold series that starts at $1,799. If a new report is to be believed, Samsung is making some changes to how one crucial component is manufactured […]

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Best Buy offers discounts on Apple Watches, foldables from Samsung, Google and Motorola

Get ‘em while you can – Best Buy just kicked off 3-day sale on a variety of things including some nice deals on the Apple Watch Series 9, Watch Ultra 2 and Watch SE. The latter will be fine, but the first two just got banned by the ITC over a patent dispute. Before we […]

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TikTok updated to support foldables and tablets

Mobile-first social networks are surprisingly bad at adopting new form factors – for example, it was only this August that Instagram got support for foldable phones. TikTok wasn’t a great experience of foldables either, at least until now. With the latest update to its app, TikTok looks and works better on foldables and tablets. The […]

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Samsung’s 2021 and 2022 foldables are missing the One UI 6 love

Samsung may have impressed us with the incredibly quick rollout of One UI 6 for Galaxy devices of all price points, but we aren’t denying that things aren’t as good as can be. Particularly disappointing is how Samsung is keeping customers in some countries waiting longer than others instead of making sure the update reaches […]

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Feature from Samsung’s foldables is finally coming to Google Pixel Fold

While Google has been optimizing Android for foldable phones and tablets since Android 12L, not all app developers are following suit by optimizing their apps for bigger screens. To combat this issue, Samsung employed a method to force apps to stretch and fit the bigger screen on its foldable phones and tablets, but that feature […]

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Here are the best deals on Samsung and Motorola foldables in the UK

Foldables are still quite pricey, but as always discounts help alleviate that. The Amazon has the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5 with 1TB storage at £1,550 – this is after a £300 discount and with a £200 coupon applied. The coupon is available for the other two memory configurations, 256GB and 512GB, but they lack the […]

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Omdia: Honor shipped the most foldables in China during Q3

Honor led the way in foldable smartphone shipments in China for the July – September period according to the latest Omdia report. Honor climbed to an impressive 28% market share during the Q3 period, surpassing Huawei which came in second with a 26% slice of the Chinese foldable market. Honor overtook Huawei as the leading […]

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Black Friday: Samsung US offers exclusive discounts on foldables, the S23 Ultra and more

You’ve been hearing about Black Friday deals for a couple of weeks now, but today is the day. Once again Samsung US is using the opportunity to get you to try out its Shop Samsung app with some exclusive discounts. You can go through the web store too, though you will need a student discount […]

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Black Friday: Samsung UK slashes prices of S23 Ultra, offers free storage upgrades and Chromebook Go with foldables

The end of November is synonymous with shopping and deals are just around every corner. For those of you in the UK looking for a new smartphone, Samsung UK is offering discounts across its Galaxy lineup of smartphones. These offers are limited Kicking things off is none other than the Galaxy S23 Ultra which gets […]

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Google Drive’s Android app now works even better on foldables, tablets

With the launch of Android 12L, Google promised to improve its apps for foldable smartphones and tablets. The company is following up with its promise and has already revamped most of its popular apps to suit the big-screen devices. Now, Google has released another update to the Google Drive app that makes it better on […]

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Samsung is right to ditch the dumb idea of cheap foldables, for now

It been rumored for the longest time that Samsung is working on cheap foldable phones. There were even rumors that the Galaxy A series could get foldables. Currently, Samsung’s foldables are exclusively offered through the Galaxy Z lineup. They’re firmly in the flagship territory, with the cheapest option being the Galaxy Z Flip 5 that […]

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