Google filed a folding phone patent application, too

Does a patent application mean a company is particularly serious about a technology? No. Is every company that makes a phones at least toying around with a folding model? Yes, probably. It’s tough to know from a series a crude drawings and technical details filed with the USPTO how seriously an individual company is taking […]

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Xiaomi’s double-folding phone really exists, and it looks amazing

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A few weeks ago, a leaked video showed a tablet-like device, allegedly made by Xiaomi, that folded in two places to create a pretty sleek smartphone. 

Now we know that this phone is real, and that it’s made by Xiaomi. 

Xiaomi’s president Lin Bin posted a teaser video on China’s Weibo, giving us a 51-second look at this upcoming device — and it looks better than any other foldable phone we’ve seen so far. 

In the accompanying post, Bin says Xiaomi has conquered a number of technical obstacles to create the device, which he calls the “world’s first double-folding mobile phone.” Read more…

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