Foldable smartphones might not be the future: experts

On Sunday, China’s tech giant Huawei officially unveiled Huawei Mate X, its first foldable smartphone. That came just five days after Galaxy Fold, the first foldable smartphone of Samsung. But foldables might not be the future of smartphones, comment two experts with China Daily’s Zhang Zhouxiang.

Yuan Xuanhua, a renowned industrial designer with 20 years’ experience in smartphone engineering.

Some media outlets have described foldable smartphones with so many sweet words as if they were a technological breakthrough. Unfortunately, they are not. The technology of foldable displays were invented as early as 20 years ago in a quite easy way — By replacing the glass that supports the display with foldable organic materials. Such displays can not only fold, but also curve.

Concerning the foldable screens of Huawei and Samsung, they have better displays with higher density rate and clearer, more stable display performance, but in essence they are still using the same technology. Therefore, foldable smartphones are more like a consumption-led innovation rather than a technology-driven breakthroughs. Although among the two, the Huawei Mate X is more practical than Galaxy Fold because the latter is folded inward to lower the risk of breaking apart while falling down, which is not so useful when breaking-glass insurance is popular.

More importantly, the “new” foldable smartphones are hardly of any practical use. Of course, one can easily double the display of the foldable smartphone by unfolding it so it has the size of an iPad, but that’s all. In plain words, the foldable display enables users to combine a tablet and a smartphone into one. There might be more uses in the future, but at least not for now.

When touchable displays for smartphones was invented, they did not get popularized until certain apps that suited touchable displays only, such as Fruit Ninjia, gained popularity. Now foldable smartphones faces a similar problem. Only when apps that suit the foldable smartphones are developed will the phones be truly accepted by the market.

Wu Shuyuan, a senior analyst at Sigmaintell, a company specialized in display analysis Samsung Fold and Huawei Mate X are both foldable smartphones, but they differ greatly in terms of design. The former is folded inward while the latter is folded outward, and each has its advantages and disadvantages.Samsung Fold looks not so perfect from the outside because the camera must not be covered during the folding, while the battery is also thicker. Huawei Mate X looks better, but its display is not protected as well as that of Samsung Fold and faces higher risk of breaking should the phone be dropped.

The two share one thing in common, namely a high price — Both are rather expensive. The Samsung Fold is priced at $1,980 while the Huawei Mate X is priced at 2,299 euros ($2,606). The high price will quite seriously limit the marketing of the two products and make them the luxuries of rich people only.

According to our analysis and market forecasts, in 2019, the number of foldable smartphones and tablets sold globally might reach 900,000, which might double in 2020. As a comparison, people globally bought 1.4 billion smartphones in 2018. In a word, unless its cost fall sharply, the market for foldable smartphones will be limited for the foreseeable future.

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China’s online gaming population reaches 484m in 2018

BEIJING – The online gaming population in China increased by 9.6 percent to 484 million as of December 2018, according to a report on China’s Internet development.

Among them, about 459 million played games on mobile phones, up 12.7 percent from a year earlier, said the report released by the China Internet Network Information Center.

The year 2018 saw closer cooperation between domestic game platforms and foreign game developers, facilitating the overseas marketing of locally produced games as well as the introduction of foreign games to the domestic market, it said.

Meanwhile, concerted efforts of various aspects of society have been made to effectively tackle the negative influence that online games bring, the report noted.

Since central authorities issued guidelines on stepping up regulation over the online gaming market in February 2018, several campaigns have been launched to rectify violations of laws and regulations and remove vulgar content from online games.

Game companies were urged to better protect the youth from adverse effects of online games.

And on the other hand, the related phone, screen protectors, earphones will hit the hot and have great potential if they can catch a part of this market.

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2020 Samsung S11 series mobile phone photo pre exposure

It is expected that Samsung S11 series mobile phones which will be launched in early 2020 will be exposed in Dongguan Yuanmei Precision Electronics Co., Ltd. in advance!!!

Recently, we learned from Dongguan Yuanmei precision engineering that Samsung

will have three new models in 2020,that are S11e / S11 / S11 +.

This time, the difference is that the new models are mainly curved and the camera is in the middle.

This also shows that all of Samsung’s flagship models in the future are inclined to curved surface.

Looking at previous cases, we find that s series is surrounded by arc edges, and the camera centering will become more and more mainstream, which also shows that the best angle for shooting is the middle.

All of these prove that Yuanmei precision is a fast and efficient factory, and also an enterprisewith advantages in the industry.

Recently, it has begun to accept orders for S11 series toughened glass film for mobile phones.

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Differences between different mobile phone films

Compared to mobile phone case this has a certain thickness of the accessories products, the film with its thin enough and does not affect the phone feel to win the back. Compared to up to thousands of dollars of the phone itself, a few dollars tens of dollars of the film is slightly insignificant, and some love the phone to buy a person or even more than one, anyway, not expensive, scratched cut off and then posted new. But I do not know the film is also divided into a variety of its thin itself also contains no small universe.
From the current mobile phone protective film market to observe the ordinary common mobile phone protection film can be generally divided PET film, while the other is more high-end glass film. The market is better to sell the professional film, the film mainly to high permeability, frosted film-based.
The same type of mobile phone film dazzling, a wide range of market prices are also very different, ranging from a few dollars to hundreds of dollars. Is there really a big difference in protective foil? A few dollars of the film really and dozens of dollars of the film is the same? Next, take you slowly understand the phone protective film cheap and brand of film What is the difference. Currently on the market of mobile phone film mainly PET material and tempered glass material two.
PET material is currently the most common material of a film, PET is a polyester copolymer, with high hardness, high transparency, high temperature characteristics, adhesive surface can be with glue or static and other options, it Translucent good, after tearing can also be repeated paste, foil will not leave residual glue, and there will be no bubble problem. Now on the market with this material film with matte film and high-definition film.
HD film transmittance is relatively high, the display is better, but it is easy to stained fingerprints, and see very obvious. Frosted film is the opposite, in the sun will not reflect, the use of the process is not easy to see stained with fingerprints, but the light transmission loss is relatively large, compared to the HD film is inferior, if you are not a love clean People, or suggest you use matte it!
ARM material is the mobile phone film in the high Fu Shuai, Bai Fu Mei, generally divided into three layers, silica gel for the adsorption layer, PET for the middle layer, the outer layer for the special treatment layer, ARM film in fact its essence is still PET material film. It is more expensive than the price of PET, the price of 30 yuan to 60 yuan, of course, the effect and performance is much stronger, the reverse material using silicone layer, you can repeatedly rinse use, paste the phone screen after the bubble is also very easy to squeeze Out, wear scratch, light transmission in more than 95%, with non-reflective anti-peeping and so on.
Tempered glass material film, compared to the general plastic, can play a better role in defensive, and anti-fingerprint and oil effects should be better. In addition, because of its high hardness, even if the phone falls, but also to a certain extent, play a buffer role, to prevent the phone screen broken. Tempered glass foil is generally composed of four layers, the first layer is a special coating; the second layer is tempered glass; the third layer is explosion-proof film; the fourth layer is a silicone coating.
Tempered glass material after high-tech nano-technology after the tempered glass has a high strength is 9 times the ordinary glass, high-definition high permeability, good resistance to scratch and explosion, waterproof and anti-oil, anti-fingerprint and other effects significantly. Tempered glass protective film on the touch screen really play a protective role, this high-tech glass is Apple, Samsung and other high-end electronic equipment products preferred protective film.

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The great phone for the smaller handed

Release date: March 2018 | Weight: 163g | Dimensions: 147.7 x 68.7 x 8.5mm |

OS: Android 8 | Screen size: 5.8-inch | Resolution: 1440 x 2960 |

CPU: Snapdragon 845 / Exynos 9810 | RAM: 4GB | Storage: 64GB/128GB |

Battery: 3,000mAh | Rear camera: 12MP | Front camera: 8MP

+Premium build
+Excellent screen
-Battery life not great
-Single sensor on the rear

The Samsung Galaxy S9 isn’t quite the phone that the S9 Plus is – it’s only got a single camera sensor, for one – but it’s a more palm-friendly model that still packs the power and top screen quality of its sibling.

Screen: A QHD 5.8-inch screen takes up most of the front of the phone – and it’s still a stunning design. Brighter, more colourful and capable of showing the best of movies, the Super AMOLED tech is once again showing itself to be best thing to look at on a smartphone.

Battery life: Battery life is a little disappointing for a top-end smartphone, meaning you’ll need to think about a top-up during the day if you’re a harder user. Wireless and fast charging capabilities help with this though.

Camera: It’s only a single sensor on the rear of the Galaxy S9, unlike the Galaxy S9 Plus – meaning it’s not as good at photography. But don’t think the S9 takes poor photos, as they’re still stunning, and in low light it’s a sterling performer, with very little noise.

Mini verdict: The Galaxy S9 is a smartphone with all the top-end features you’d want, and more on top. It’s not quite at the level of the S9 Plus, and the iPhone X outranks it in a few ways – but once again the price of this phone is starting to get a little more competitive, making it more of a lure than at launch.

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