On February 15, Ross Young, CEO of DCSS, a supply chain information company, broke the news on Twitter that Google's first folding screen mobile phone will be put into mass production in the third quarter of this year, and the fourth quarter will be officially released.
The appearance design of traditional mobile phones has fallen into a bottleneck, and in the past two years, more and more mobile phone companies have launched folding screen flagships, such as Xiaomi MIX FOLD, OPPO Find N, etc. Coupled with the earlier entry of Samsung and Huawei, the folding screen flagship has many choices.
However, is the folding screen experience really good? What Xiao Lei wants to say is that if it is used as a good main machine, the folding screen flagship is not qualified because it is too heavy. The main consumer group of this type of mobile phone is high-end business people, large screen and dual screen operation, and it is very convenient to process files. However, to this day, folding screen mobile phones still have many system mismatch problems, resulting in a user experience that is not so perfect.
As an Android system developer, Google's software strength is beyond doubt, and may be able to solve the headache of dual-screen adaptation that causes consumers a headache. The only problem with Google folding screen mobile phones may be that the price is too expensive, the pixel mobile phone configuration is general, generally can be sold to thousands of yuan, the whole folding screen mobile phone, no 15,000 yuan is estimated to be unable to take down.
If you want to experience a folding screen mobile phone, domestic brands may still be the first choice. At present, there are three major domestic manufacturers that have launched folding screen mobile phones, namely Huawei, OPPO, Xiaomi, Huawei and Xiaomi's design ideas are similar, the former experience is good, but the price is expensive, and the second-hand price of the latter is almost the same as that of ordinary flagships. Oppo Find N is more tablet-like in proportion when unfolded, but slightly smaller in size. In addition to Huawei, the other two manufacturers have only launched a generation of folding screen mobile phones, and the products are indeed not mature enough.
Ross Young revealed that this year, Xiaomi and OPPO will release the second generation of folding screen flagships, and Vivo will also release the first folding screen flagship. With the updating and iteration of software and hardware, the overall experience of folding screen mobile phones will certainly become more and more perfect, and under the competition of many mobile phone manufacturers, the price of folding screen mobile phones will gradually decline.
This year, Xiaomi and OPPO have pulled the price of folding screen mobile phones below 10,000 yuan, and may soon be similar to ordinary flagships. As for Google's folding screen phone, the Pixel is not bought by many people, let alone the folding screen phone, it is expensive, then let it be expensive.