Tencent Technology News 2017, to increase the proportion of the screen as the core of the whole screen mobile phone in the global trend of eruption, almost all of China's first-tier brands have followed South Korea's Samsung Electronics and the United States Apple introduced a full screen mobile phone.After the full screen, What is the next hot spot for smartphones?
According to industry sources, folding phones will be the next new trend in the global handset industry.
Recently, Taiwan's E-Times website quoted industry sources as saying that a large number of mobile phone manufacturers, including China and South Korea, are currently developing folded cell phones, including Huawei, OPPO and South Korea's Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics.
On the full-screen mobile phone, Japan's Sharp company called the industry's founder, while in the folding phone, ZTE has taken a step ahead of China.In October, at a conference in New York City, ZTE released a folding double Screen phone Axon M. This phone has two 5.2-inch full HD screen, in addition to folding to provide a 6.75-inch large screen, providing a more extensive viewing experience.
Not long ago, Huawei's mobile phone executive Yu Chengdong revealed that Huawei is developing a dual-screen mobile phone and plans to release the product by the end of 2018. The details of the product are still unknown.
Industry sources, OPPO is also developing a similar product, the company has previously applied for some patents, and the folding screen, folding cell phones have a relationship.
In addition to Chinese companies, South Korean handset makers are also interested in folding dual-screen handsets. Like OPPO, Samsung Electronics has also previously filed a technology patent in the United States related to folding phones, one of Samsung's patents being called ' Device ', Samsung uses a flexible screen on both screens.
According to sources, LG Display Company is also developing a folding screen, and may cooperate with the United States Apple, the company may plan to launch commercially available mature products by 2020.
Sources said that Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics are also display screen manufacturers, so the introduction of folding phones or dual-screen phones, the two companies will have some advantages.
It is worth mentioning that in the smart phone market, Microsoft suffered a major setback, Microsoft executives recently confirmed on Twitter, the future will no longer develop new cell phone products.But the industry has been rumored to Microsoft's Surface The hardware division is developing a folding mobile device that will feature a smartphone that will become a white-collar family of portable office tools after the collapsible screen is turned into a tablet with a large display screen, However, Microsoft chief Nader said in an interview that Microsoft's division of mobile devices to a new size and category of innovation, once again to create a similar Surface Pro brilliant (which Product invented a new category of hybrid tablet)
So far, no folding cell phone has been mass-produced in the world. How do consumers hold attitudes toward this type of cell phone, whether the cell phone can become the mainstream, and a question mark.
Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007 and reinvented its smartphones, which have become more aesthetically pleasing in the past decade as touchscreen phones around the world have become more and more similar, but in 2017 there have been some changes .
This year led by Samsung Electronics and Apple, the industry set off a wave of full screen, the phone's border to further reduce the proportion of the screen to further improve the other headphone jack, the main screen button and so gradually canceled.This phone brings consumers The new sensory, but unfortunately, the full screen mobile phone is only a "quasi-full-screen" products, including Apple iPhone X Qi Liuhai, Sharp's phone is the 'beauty tip', and Samsung mobile phone too obvious upper and lower borders, Full screen phone there is room for further hardware optimization.
Also worth mentioning is that before the advent of folding dual-screen mobile phone, some mobile phone manufacturers have tried before and after the double-screen mobile phone panel, such as a cell phone company launched a Russian mobile phone in the rear configuration of the super-power-saving ink screen , Used to display some static information, but this dual-screen phone did not succeed in the market, and now basically traceable.