Smartphone manufacturers still want to make foldables a thing
by Financial Times from Ars Technica - All content on (#6HG8Y)
Enlarge / A Huawei Technologies Co. Mate X5 smartphone arranged in Hong Kong, China, on Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023. (credit: Bloomberg via Getty)
Every large smartphone maker except Apple is betting that foldable" phones will help revive a lacklustre mobile market, despite the devices still largely failing to attract mainstream consumers.
Foldables, which have a screen that opens like a book or compact mirror, barely exceed a 1 per cent market share of all smartphones sold globally almost five years after they were first introduced.
But Samsung has doubled down on the product, investing heavily in marketing this year. In July, the Korean group released its 5G Galaxy Z series.