Unfolding the Foldable: Everyone’s interested in bending screens

Not just Samsung, but quite a few prominent names like Xiaomi, Huawei and TCL have been working on foldable phones

It’s clear that both, companies and customers, are thoroughly bored with the rectangular slab smartphones that are now our constant companions. Fewer people are upgrading across the world and if it weren’t for millions of new users in markets like India, the industry would find itself in a tight spot. So one thing companies are doing is exploring new features and designs, among them the long-elusive foldable phone.

For many years, Samsung was the only company whose name one immediately associated a possible foldable phone with. But now, with the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, just three days away, Huawei, Xiaomi, Motorola, (and who knows who else) are racing to bring a foldable phone to the show floor.