Mainland ZTE has published a new type of folding smartphone, Huawei, Oppo will also follow up the introduction of folding mobile phones, it is noteworthy that the recent spread of Samsung Electronics (Samsung Electronics) in the United States, South Korea application for folding smartphone-related patents, while LG Display ) has received the apple (Apple) folding iphone panel research and development program. South Korea's industry believes that if Samsung and LG Electronics can take the lead in the production of a single screen of the folding smartphone, will be able to escape the mainland mobile phone operators pursuit. Mainland mobile phone industry for the development of folding mobile phones spare no effort, October 2017 ZTE published Axon M smartphone, the screen can be opened like a book to the side, two of screens to perform different applications (apps), ZTE called it a folding smartphone, but the industry most of it as a dual-screen phone, A folding cell phone that is not a single screen. Yu, Huawei's consumer business chief, said it was developing a two-screen smartphone that was expected to be released by the end of 2018. Mainland Chinese Oppo, who has already applied for the top half of the screen's foldable smartphone patents, highlighted the Chinese mobile phone industry's first foray into the folding handset market, which began the duck-pull competition in 2017. It is noteworthy that, according to international media reports, Samsung recently in the United States and South Korea, respectively, for the folding smartphone patent, from the patented product schematic shows that there will be a smart phone in the middle of a similar hinge (HINGE) structure, so that the mobile phone from top to bottom fold. Samsung IT and mobile Communications Minister Gaodong has previously said that the folding mobile phones into the product technology blueprint, the goal is 2018, but there are still some technical issues must be resolved. In addition, the industry has received the Apple-related folding iphone panel development Program, the target 2020 years ago to complete the technology development and commercialization. Because Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics each have specialized production of the relationship between the display, the future in the development of a single screen of the folding smart phone is more advantageous. Although the development of folding smart phones is not easy, but in technology applications have the opportunity to subvert the existing mobile phone market, because consumers prefer large-screen mobile phones, but do not want to bulky, inconvenient, which makes folding mobile phones to meet the potential development direction of consumer demand. From the functional side of mobile phones, the simple transmission of messages or the use of social networking Software (SNS), you can use a small screen, watching movies or play games, the use of large screen. If the screen is folded so that the back of the original camera to the front, you can take a better performance of the rear lens photography photos, the industry can also save the installation of the front-self camera lens, and for the future smartphone function will bring greater space. For 0 component developers, it would be a challenge to redesign the folding smartphone from internal motherboard, circuit, battery, and even to develop new parts that were not previously in place. and a single screen folding mobile phone, the screen must be able to withstand more than tens of thousands of folds and leveling, the product durability, at this stage, the mainland industry to merge two screens in the form of a dual-screen mobile phone, is unable to solve the single screen direct folding durability problems. Although the industry is still sceptical about the prospect of a folding mobile phone, in the face of a gradual lack of innovation in smartphones, in the 2017 full screen, biometrics and other booms, 2018 may have to look at the innovation of folding mobile phones.
