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After the Galaxy Fold and Z Flip, Samsung has launched its third smartphone with a foldable display-- Galaxy Z Fold 2. Samsung is offering some productivity features of the Galaxy Note 20 series along with what the company claims is bigger cover display, better quality ultra-thin foldable glass inside with a punch hole for selfie camera and 5G support. Samsung has also added a new hinge that allows the phone to be used as a laptop that allows the display to be tilted at different angles.   The cover display(outside display when folded) measures 6.2-inch. It offers HD+ 2260 x 816 pixels resolution. It’s a Super AMOLED display with 25:9 aspect ratio and 386ppi pixel density. The main foldable display is a 7.6-inch QXGA+ (2208 x 1768 pixels) Dynamic AMOLED 2X Display with an aspect ratio of 22.5:18 and 373ppi pixel density. Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2 is powered by the Snapdragon 865+ processor with 12GB of RAM and 512GB internal storage. There’s another variant with 256GB sto...

Advertising The foldable phone from Motorola retains its iconic flip design, and has a small screen on the outside. At $1499.99, this might be ‘cheaper’ than the Samsung Galaxy Fold, but the razr will looking to cash in on good old nostalgia. We take a look at what is unique about the Motorola razr. Motorola razr: The clamshell is back The Moto Razr was series of phones from Motorola, with the V3 first launching back in 2004 and these phones were a style statement at the time. The Razr series had a clamshell design, well before  Android  or  iOS  dominated the world of mobiles. But instead of a foldable display, what you had at the bottom half was a keyboard. The V3 was the best selling clamshell phone (130 million units) and Motorola followed up with other versions under the Razr branding till 2013. The big difference with the Motorola Razr is that it now has a foldable display, but in the same clamshell form factor. (Image source: Bloomberg) T...

Samsung has officially unveiled the Galaxy Fold, the company’s first foldable smartphone. The device features a groundbreaking hinge system with multiple interlocking gears—you can’t even see it from the outside—that lays perfectly flat when opened. The Galaxy Fold is a completely new type of hybrid device unlike anything else out there. When the Galaxy Fold is closed, it features a modest 4.6-inch display (840 x 1960). Open the device up to unveil a 7.3-inch (1536 x 2152) Infinity Flex display—the device is half smartphone and half tablet. This is a new era of the “phablet,” and it looks fabulous. “In order to make a brand new type of smartphone, we had to come up with all new ways to design and manufacture,” said Justin Denison, SVP of product marketing, Samsung. While the Galaxy Fold offers a large 7.3-inch display when open, it’s worth noting that there’s a rather large notch in the top right corner, which might be a problem when watching video. But that might not matter...

5G and Foldable phones – the two big trends of MWC 2019, and Huawei has made a phone that fits both trends. The Huawei Mate X is the company’s most ambitious device ever, and features not one, not two, but three total screen configurations. It’s also purportedly the world’s fastest 5G phone and features four cameras. Let’s start with the first big trend of MWC: foldable phones. Like so many other companies, Huawei wants to be on-par with, or setting, the latest trends. The Mate X features a large flexible OLED panel on the outside of the phone, which features three distinct display configurations: when flat, it’s an 8” FullView display with no notch and minimal bezels. When folded, the front is a 6.6-inch “daily driver” screen that you’ll use every day, and the rear is a 6.38” screen. The FullView tablet display is 2480×2200 pixels (8:7.1 aspect ratio), and splits into 2480×1148 pixels (19.5:9 aspect ratio) for the “daily driver” screen and 2480×892 pixels (25:9 aspect ratio) for ...