Analysis of beauty.. It is easy to carry and folds flat.
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| Royole's FlexPai Phone (Photo = CNET) |
Samsung
Electronics will unveil the Galaxy S10 unpacking event in San Francisco next month
and will release the foldable smartphone with the Galaxy S10 series.
The newly released Samsung FolderBoop will have a 4.5-inch
screen on the outside, and when the screen is opened, it will have a 7.3-inch
screen inside, and Samsung's new UI, the original UI, will be equipped with
Android 9Pie. The product can use three apps at the same time, including
Internet browsing, multimedia and messaging on the big screen.
If a foldable smartphone, which can be used as a tablet when
folded and unfolded, becomes a true two-in-one device, it is likely to shake up
the smartphone market, which is suffering from sluggish sales and lack of
innovation.
1. Portability
The prototype of the Samsung FolderBoop was released in November,
but it is not clear how thick the product is. The folder button is
expected to be thicker than the average people use because folding the screen
causes the two screens to overlap and thicken.
If the folder is too big for people to use naturally, it will
lose its value. Zune's Axon M, which had been linked to a folder bubble
Royole's FlexPai Phone and a hinge, was inconvenient to carry.
According to Ben Wood, a market researcher, CSS Insight analyst
Ben Roy said, "Royole has set standards too low in favor of Samsung."
How Samsung is delivering the benefits of FolderBoop will be key to its future
success.
2. Fold flat
One of the challenges of FolderBoop is what shape your smartphone will
look like when folded. Looking at Royole's FlexPai and Microsoft Surfacebook
2, both had a flexible hinge in the center and a bend in the middle to close
the flat surface. |
| It is noticed whether Samsung's fold-up folder can be folded even more than Royole's FlexPai. (Photo = CNET) |
3.
Premium Phone
No one would want to feel that buying an expensive folder button
is slower or less powerful than a standard flagship smartphone. The camera
and processor of the Samsung FolderBoop should be as good as the Galaxy S10,
and should support fast multitasking on both screens. This was pointed out
as a problem with ZTE Axon M, which used relatively older processors to lower
costs.
There are also questions about what a plastic screen looks like. The
internal screen of the Samsung FolderBoop will be made of plastic material such
as Royole FlexPai. However, the evaluation of the plastic screen of Rowel
released earlier this month is not good |
| ZTE 'Axon M' (photo = CNET) |
Corning,
the maker of gorillas, is developing protective glasses for thin and flexible
foldable devices, but before that, Samsung Electronics will have to develop
materials and finishes to make the foldable display of plastic materials feel
luxurious.
4. Balance
The ZTE Axon M has only one side of the battery, so it was not
balanced and difficult to use. To solve this, you can put a balance or
several batteries, but it should not be too heavy to carry.
5. Strong seams
Folder The point at which the button bends is the folding part
of the center of the screen. This is a very important part because it is
constantly bending. Royole said FlexPai will last more than 20,000 times
over the lifetime of the device.
In addition, the middle part of the screen should not be
disturbed when viewed in full screen. In the case of the ZTE Axis M, the
thick bezel in the middle interfered across the entire screen.
6. Camera Usability and
Quality
Because AXON M had only one camera on the front of the camera,
it was inconvenient to turn it over to use the rear camera. Also, there
are products like Google Pixel 3 that can take good pictures even with a single
camera on the back, but FolderBohn also needs to maintain more than the dual
camera adopted by the recently released smartphone.
7. A killer app that works
well
Google announced that it will also support FolderBoop on Android
at the end of last year. This means that when the screen is folded, screen
switching and app usage are smooth.
Apart from Google's Foldable support, modifying your app so that
apps or game developers can also work on folderbuffers is a tough task. Samsung
Electronics will provide test tools such as an emulator to support developers
to create a folderable application.
"If the robust operating system and software support are
not right, the FolderBoop simply goes away as a device to attract
attention," said Gartner analyst Wartner Goertz, a market researcher.
8. Long battery life
The bigger the screen, the more power it consumes, so you need a
lot of batteries to use a foldable phone all day long. However, the
battery does not bend, and one battery is more efficient than two smaller
batteries. Samsung Electronics should propose a creative solution for a
long-lasting folder.
9. Price
Samsung Electronics' folder bubble is not expected to be cheap. The
minimum starting price is expected to start at $1,300 to $1,500, and
according to a media report some time ago, the price of the Galaxy F (tentative
name) was expected to be sold at 2,000 Euros.
