It has been rumored a while ago that Samsung will launch a smartphone with foldable screen . If this is confirmed, Samsung will not be the first. Royole, a US electronics company, dropped out and introduced the first flexible-screen tablet and smartphone hybrid, the FlexPai.
The device has a 7.8-inch display, with a 4: 3 aspect ratio and 1920 x 1440 pixel resolution. The great news is that it can be folded in half, like a magazine or a newspaper, forming a smartphone – a little clumsy, with a rather unusual thickness, but still a smartphone – with three screens: a main, a secondary and a screen on the border that forms with the fold, to show notifications.
According to Royole, the screen can be folded 200 thousand times. Nobody said what happens after that number, and, let’s face it, it’s really hard to hit it – you would need to double more than 500 times a day to reach the limit in a year and, well, you must have more to do with life than to be touching the tablet.
Flexibility aside, the Robole FlexPai even has interesting specs: 8-series Snapdragon Octa-Core processor (model not developed) with 2.8 GHz clock, 6 GB or 8 GB RAM, 128 GB or 256 GB storage, 16 and 20 megapixel cameras and a 3,800 mAh battery.
In practice though, it seems like it does not work as well. The Verge went to the hybrid presentation event in San Francisco and said that the device has some performance issues: “The software seemed extremely slow, applications were accidentally opening all the time, and the screen orientation does not stop change randomly while one of Royole’s representatives demonstrated the process of folding. ” This may be the fault of Water OS, a version customized by Royole Android 9, which seems to be out of order
In any case, it is the first time we see a foldable display device that is not in video or just a prototype. The consumer version will be sold in China for 9,000 yuan. In the US, a developer version will be sold for the same price – converting, giving $ 1,300, or $ 4,858, considering the day’s exchange rate. It’s a lot of money for a handset that does not seem to work so well, but, you see, this is the price you need to be first.
Source:gizmodo.uol.com.br
