TechScape: Are folding phones the shape of things to come?
by Alex Hern from on (#5P15F)
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What will your next phone look like? Will it be a featureless black rectangle from the front, with a bulbous many-lensed camera unit emerging from the rear? Or will it be ... different?
Samsung is one of a growing number of companies betting that now is time for a change. The company's latest phones, the Galaxy Flip 3 and Galaxy Fold 3, aren't going to be mistaken for an iPhone at a distance: both are built, in different ways, around a flexible screen, with a hinge that bisects the whole device and fundamentally changes how it works.
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