Get Ready for Foldable Smartphones, Because They're About to Be Everywhere

http://time.com/5537741/foldable-smartphones/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi1qlhzNjgI

For a peek at the cutting-edge smartphones you can expect to see (and even buy) later this year, look no further than Mobile World Congress, the annual Super Bowl of the handset world. And one clear trend from this year’s MWC, which wraps up Feb. 28, is the rise of “foldable” smartphones. With the appearance of a regular handset but the ability to open up to become more tablet-like, foldable smartphones are looking like the next big thing in gadgetdom. But will they be a bona-fide hit with consumers, or quickly relegated to the proverbial junk drawer of tech history?

I remember when Sony showed off a flexible oled screen like 12 years ago. I'm glad Huawei finally got around to stealing that tech and bringing it to the market.

They're cost prohibitive right now. Maybe when they get cheaper we'll see more of them.

They are just raising the price ceiling. Soon the floor will after.

Foldable smartphones are something no one is asking for.

Phones are already big enough so I don´t think this will be a hit, it reminds me of my dads old Nokia 9600 or thereabouts, which was a massive "foldable" phone

It was also clever but nothing people were asking for and quickly vanished into obscurity like these kinds of phones.

Pretty cool to fold phones

You take it out of your pocket unfold it. Once your done fold it back and put it in your the pocket. It's going to be a very nice transition.

I remember like 15 years ago, I was in a training, and some guy was like obsessed with talking about nano tech, and we spent one afternoon after testing, just reading about the future of foldable phones that will strap to our wrists and shit. Its weird that it took so long, cause I'm ready to wear my phone.

I feel the future is wearing glasses with Hololens 2 tech build in. And that our wrist watch would have the ear bud that pops out that we put in our ear when we want to talk, or just have the glasses have some device that goes in your ear. Who needs the phone, when that can be stuffed in our watch or glasses.

I mean whos gonna need eye transplants for cybernetic eyes when we can just wear glasses.