Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak doesn’t want to wait for a folding iPhone.
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Chinese firm TCL Communication has unveiled its own flexible display as it looks to offer an alternative to the new foldable phones from Huawei and Samsung.
Samsung Electronics and Huawei Technologies watched as Apple first priced a mass market smartphone at more than $1 000 – and now have upped the ante with new models at almost double that cost.
South Africa’s first fully fledged smartphone factory is to open at Dube TradePort Special Economic Zone north of Durban, as pan-African investment conglomerate Mara Group proceeds with its plans to invest R1.5-billion into the project.
Sony is to launch the “world’s first” smartphone with a 4K-resolution OLED display – similar technology to modern televisions – the company has announced.
LG’s new G8 ThinQ can be unlocked by reading the palm of the user, offering a new type of biometric security.
Foldable devices mark the “biggest change” ever in the smartphone industry, according to Huawei’s mobile boss, Richard Yu.
Microsoft is introducing an improved version of its HoloLens augmented-reality goggles and lowering the price, as it tries to develop a bigger business selling the devices to corporate customers.
The Huawei Mate X has a flexible OLED display which covers both the front and back of the device, but can be unfolded to become a tablet with an eight-inch screen.
Samsung Electronics debuted its most extensive new line-up of smartphones, taking on Apple in a slowing market with 3D cameras, an in-screen fingerprint scanner and faster 5G connectivity and a device with a folding screen.