Ten millions of units. This is the number of foldable smartphones that Samsung would have managed to sell in 2021 alone, three times more than during the previous period. TM Roh, a senior executive at the Korean, has just shared these very encouraging figures in a new blog post published on his company’s website last week.
But, as we know Apple likes to wait for the market to prove itself before getting on the page. We have seen this with the launch of the group’s connected watches, but also for wireless headphones or for the mobile fingerprint reader. It is therefore very likely that Apple will also decide to start manufacturing flexible mobiles, as some patents already tend to prove.
The competition is already tough!
If the firm at the apple actually presents a foldable iPhone, its success seems assured, that is not the question. No, what is likely to worry more than one analyst is rather the fact that Cupertino will therefore have to deal with heavyweights like the successor to the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3 5G. This performance monster features a 6.2 to 7.6 inch panel, IPX8 certified and powered by 12 GB of RAM and a Snapdragon 888 chip.
Another stallion of the chaebol: the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip4 and its two 12 MPx rear photo sensors, wide-angle and ultra-wide-angle, which have little to envy to the iPhone 13 Pro available at the moment. Here, the 6.7 slab bends in the other direction for a format that is reminiscent of your good old GameBoy Advance SP.
“Mainstream“
As Roh points out in his article, which you can read here in Englishthe foldable smartphone sector is now mainstream. Understand that the public has embraced the solution and that it has democratizedconfirming the expectations of groups that have invested billions of dollars in their creation.
Consumers are thus switching more and more from a classic telephone to this new format, which is more practical or more comfortable, although still too expensive to suit all budgets. But with an iPhone 14 at more than a thousand euros each, a hinged variation such as this concept and even less affordable may well cost double, at least… See you in 2025?
By: Keleops AG