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As Apple enters the market, a brief history of foldable phones

The first iPhone in 2007 mainstreamed touch-screen technology, years after it was developed. Now Apple is betting its maiden foldable phone can do the same for a format stuck in a niche despite years of efforts from Samsung and Chinese rivals like Huawei.

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“Chinese and Korean manufacturers are leading the way in the foldable smartphone sector.” This was the reaction presented by Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun on the 11th while evaluating Apple’s first foldable phone, the ‘iPhone Duo.’ Following Apple’s launch of its first-ever foldable phone the day before, along with a reaction mixed with anticipation, other global smartphone manufacturers and

Apple has never been a pioneer: it neither released the first smartphone (as IBM did in the 90s) nor was it the first to put a touchscreen on a mobile phone. What it has achieved since launching the first iPhone in 2007 is to cultivate the image of a pioneering company with easy-to-use and well-designed […] The post Why Apple is now entering foldable phones – Broken hinges and outrageous prices appeared first on iEidiseis.

With Apple launching its first foldable phone in 19 years, Japan, which boasted the world's most advanced technology in the 2000s when mobile phones began to be widely adopted, is entering the handset market.

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