Although Apple and Samsung have long been reported as planning folding smartphones, the American technology company Royole has pioneered the technology before Apple and Samsung.
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Sideway view of the smartphone
Folding FlexPai features a “Water OS” dedicated OS suitable for folding operation. Please note that this Water OS is a Android 9.0 fork.
How it look without folding. The display size is 7.8 inches, the aspect ratio is 4: 3, and the resolution is 1920 × 1440. The pixel density is 308 ppi. In addition, 8GB of memory (RAM), 256 GB of storage (ROM), microSD card slot is also available.
Looking from the back side view. There are two lines in the center, and it seems that this is an area that can be folded.
The processor is equipped with the latest Snapdragon SoC from Qualcomm. 8 core · 2.8 GHz, Adreno 640 is adopted as GPU.
Bending with Gunit ……
This is how it looks when you fold it. Battery capacity is 3800 mAh.
It can be operated from either side. When it is folded up, it becomes a portrait screen like a smartphone.
Royole has released FlexPai in China on November 1, 2018, and the selling price is between 1295 dollars to 1870 dollars.