Foldable smartphones seem to be the trend that would dominate this year in the mobile phone industry. The innovative design style has for long been a hot topic in the rumour mills, with several patent filings spotted online. Last year, a relatively unknown Chinese phone maker Royole showcased the Flexpai which is the first practical foldable phone to be unveiled. The phone is still some distance from going commercial but since then, several other OEMs have revealed their own designs such as Huawei, Xiaomi, OPPO. Last week, Samsung unveiled its own foldable phone dubbed Galaxy Fold and over the weekend, Huawei did the same thing with the Mate X. Lenovo may soon join the train.
As with all trend in the industry, other OEMs are expected to join the bandwagon especially when that design turns out to be popular. We saw that with the notch screen design which became a hot trending design after Apple released the iPhone X. This time around, Apple isn’t pioneering the foldable phone design but we expect the US company to catch up with the trend soon. 
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In case you are trying to picture what a foldable iPhone will look like, the guys at tech website, Foldable New have published a concept render of the iPhone X foldable phone. The concept design is actually the brainchild of Dutch industrial designer Roy Gilsing who created the design at the request of Foldable News. The phone was named iPhone X Fold employing Samsung’s naming pattern, ala Galaxy Fold. Just like the Galaxy Fold, the iPhone X Fold comes with two screens, an outer display with 1:3 aspect ratio and a wider display with a 2:3 aspect ratio. When it is folded, we must admit the concept looks nothing like an iPhone but like the regular Android phone. But when it is unfolded, you get a tablet which looks like an iPad. The device can also be folded partially to turn it into a mini-notebook with a touchscreen keyboard.
It is doubtful if Apple will release a foldable phone with this sort of design. We still don’t know how Apple’s foldable iPhone will look like. Apple already has several foldable phone design patents in its kitty so it is a question of when rather than if the Cupertino-based company will release a foldable phone.
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