Tag: Samsung Galaxy Fold
Huawei accused of pushing Booking.com ads to phone lockscreens
Huawei phone users have complained of being served ads for travel company Booking.com as the main image on their device’s homescreen before unlocking. The images appear to have been added to the phone’s Magazine Unlock feature – a Huawei tool which displays a rotating set of images each time the device’s screen is activated and…
Huawei Mate X foldable phone launch delayed until September
Huawei is to delay the launch of its first foldable smartphone, the Mate X, saying it wants to test the device further after rival Samsung suffered issues with its own foldable phone earlier this year. The Chinese tech giant said it wanted to be more “cautious” over the 2,299 euro (£2,048) device after Samsung’s Galaxy…
Oppo and Xiaomi reveal ‘under-display’ selfie cameras for more screen space
Smartphones could soon hide the front-facing selfie camera underneath, rather than in the display, as tech giants race to find new ways to avoid notch and pin-hole designs in order to provide more screen space. Chinese handset makers Oppo and Xiaomi have launched into an early battle over the technology, revealing a taste of the…
Some £1500 Samsung Galaxy Fold phones are already breaking, journalists report
Some Samsung Galaxy Fold phones appear to be breaking after just a couple of days. Journalists who received the phones for review before the public launch said the screen started flickering and turning black before completely fizzling out. Two journalists said they had removed a thin, protective layer from the screens that they thought was…
Samsung Galaxy Fold will be ‘first of many’ foldable devices
Samsung’s new Galaxy Fold smartphone will be the first of many devices with flexible screens in the coming years, a company director has said. The Fold is the Korean technology giant’s first major device to use folding screen technology and will go on sale in the UK on May 3 for £1,800. It will be…
Huawei Mate X vs Samsung Galaxy Fold: How foldable phones compare
Huawei has joined Samsung in announcing its first foldable smartphone, with a flexible phone-sized screen that opens out to a tablet-sized device. But how do the two new devices compare? Martyn Landi reports from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona... Samsung Galaxy Fold (Samsung) – A 4.6-inch HD+ Super AMOLED front display, with the device unfolding…
Experts have mixed reactions to Samsung Galaxy Fold
Samsung’s first foldable smartphone has been met with a mixed reaction by industry experts. Rob Baillie, mobile expert at comparemymobile.com said questions remained around the viability of the device. “There have been many rumours floating around the first key folding device on the market – what tech it’s going to incorporate, what the USPs are…