After going through the patents for the 8 speaker iPad yesterday, I had to take another look at the various design patents for foldable tablets too, since patents have so far been a good indicator of what companies are up to what in the foldable tablet space. And while we have already covered foldable tablets and dual-screen phones from every possible angle so far, there is another patent (pending) from … more…
The five main problems with foldable tablet displays are blisters on the flexible display, cracking display folds, the death of pixels on the screen in the fold in particular, discolorization, and displays that starts altering their size after fold and wear through many different temperatures. With the current technologies available there are several ways of solving this, mostly depending on how tight you want the fold between the opposing folding … more…
Samsung Electronics announced its Q4 and 2017 results in South Korea today, and among the highlights for us tablet followers was the emphasis on foldable OLED displays, mentioned 3 times by Samsung. Samsung believes OLED displays will become the mainstream display in smartphones in 2018, and also that OLED will reinforce its position because of (flexible) OLED display technology in coming foldable devices. And while Samsung stated that OLED displays … more…
The latest rumor or leak on Samsung’s first foldable tablet phone or dual-screen smartphone now says that Samsung decided to say yes to the product in November 2017, and that it may be launch in December 2018 or early in 2019. These news comes out of the South Korean news ETNews, who says that their industry sources have informed them that the foldable displays will be developed by March, with … more…
The prospect of a foldable Microsoft tablet got more interesting in October when it suddenly was seen as credible that the patents Microsoft have filed on various designs for foldable tablets, were more than just patents. And since yesterday and up until today, new patents with several graphic illustrations of a foldable Microsoft tablet have been found at the international patent site Wipo, thanks to MSPoweruser. Past patents have shown … more…
Model number Samsung SM-G888 with the specific version SM-G888NO have been officially listed on the support pages of Samsung’s web, strongly indicating that this device is well on its way to launch, though probably not jut yet. The news was discovered by Mobielkopen and later reported by Sammobile. The Samsung SM-G888NO is expected to by some to be one of Samsung’s upcoming foldable or dual-screen smartphones. Two foldable Samsung devices … more…
The much respected Samsung Galaxy tracking site Galaxyclub.nl in The Netherlands did some proper journalistic digging this week and came up with several examples of interfaces from the patents for the upcoming Samsung Galaxy X, one of Samsung’s first foldable mobile devices. But instead of being a foldable one-screen tablet that can flex and fold in the middle, the latest evidence suggests that Samsung Galaxy X will be a dual-screen … more…
Zac Bowden published another good article today writing on behalf of Windows Central, where he claims that the patents Microsoft have filed for foldable mobile devices, are more than just patents that secures rights for Microsoft, and that Microsoft is indeed working towards a foldable tablet or foldable phone that could launch as early as 2018, quoting insider sources. Though Bowden is the first person to caution that 2018 may … more…
Huawei is now reported by Cnet to be working on a foldable phone. But unlike the dual-screen ZTE Axon M that was unveiled last week, Huawei seems to want to take different approach, with a bezel-less design solution. The news comes from a conversation initiated by Shara Tibken of Cnet, who got the information from talks with Richard Yu, the CEO of one of Huawei’s consumer divisons. And according to … more…
We got a step closer to the launch of a foldable tablet today, as ZTE unveiled the dual screen foldable smartphone ZTE Axon M at Madison Square Garden in New York today. It will be available through AT&T. The screen is 6.75 inches wide in fold out mode, and 5.2 inches for each separate display. The specs are decent too, but first of all, what makes the ZTE Axon M … more…
The foldable tablet phone ZTE Axon Multy (Z999) aka ZTE Axon M had its FCC approval listed today, revealing the first good specs overview in the process while confirming that ZTE Axon Multy (Z999) is indeed a foldable tablet phone, and that the timing coincides with the estimated mid-October unveiling date, as ZTE have booked Madison Square Garden on October 17. ZTE Axon Multy (Z999) specs that are confirmed, includes … more…
Samsung have been working on foldable tablets and tablet phones for years without launching any, and while Samsung could have launched such devices at the end of 2016 already, they decided not to, among other things because they felt that the key technologies weren’t good enough yet. But on September 12, Samsung mobile president Koh Dong-jin said during a press event for the Galaxy Note 8 in Seoul, that the … more…
The first foldable tablet phone may launch next month in October already, according to info obtained by Evan Blass. And according to today’s rumor, the ZTE Axon Multy is a collaboration between ZTE and AT&T that will launch in October for $650. The screen is measured to 6.8 inches, but the resolution is 1920 x 1080 in folded phone mode and 1920 x 2160 in unfolded tablet mode, so we … more…
Samsung have been working on foldable tablets/phones for years, on and off at various stages, and while two models technically could have been launched at the start of the year, Samsung were soon rumored to wait until the market shifted a little while their technologies also matured more, and there were even talks of postponing the developments of the devices because of reshuffles within Samsung. Since then, the first real … more…
The display manufacturers have several foldable tablet and foldable phone screens on display as prototypes these days, as evident by the latest videos from Charbax, that Liliputing wrote about yesterday when it brought attention to a prototype of a foldable 10.2-inch E Ink eReader with a black and white display. But E Ink isn’t the only company ready to deliver foldable screens or foldable displays if manufacturers wants them. Large … more…