In the smartphone era, we have almost seen notch screens and bezel-less display, touting cameras, where every smartphone maker is struggling hard get some thing unique in their smart pieces. Well, after all these struggles now the time came for foldable smartphones is the latest battle ground for smartphone makers.
It is almost a year we heard about Samsung foldable phone which has already showcased at its Annual Developers Conference earlier this month. LG and Huawei are other smartphone brands working on foldable smartphones, where Huawei confirmed about to release 5G foldable phones in 2019.
According to recent reports, Huawei has also shown its foldable smartphone in South Korea.T he company also announced that it is working on Foldable 5G phones at its Mate20 launch event. It’s been rumoured since this past July that Huawei was working to beat its rival Samsung to release a foldable phone as early as next year. Huawei planned for a separate 5G phone but later confirmed to integrate it with a foldable phone. The Chinese company is developing its own chip, the Balong 5G01, that can support the new 3GPP standard for 5G networks. It has also invested $600 million to make its devices 5G compatible, so a foldable tablet that can also support 5G makes sense.
The company s the expected to develop wide 5G networks by the first half of 2019 and would showcase the smartphone first in South Korea. And the smartphone may be globally unveiled at Mobile World Congress first before its official launch. And actual launch may be at mid-2019.
According to a recent leak by ETNews, Huawei’s foldable smartphone will receive an 8-inch external screen, which is slightly larger than the 7.3-inch screen on Samsung Galaxy Foldable Phone display. Previous rumours for the Huawei foldable smartphone suggest that the device will receive a Balong 5000 5G modem with all its inherent advantages.t is also rumoured that the Chinese BOE display maker may bendable OLED display for the upcoming smartphone. In addition, it is rumoured that the smartphone will get an on-screen fingerprint scanner.
