Experts say you may not have one yet, but a foldable phone could be in your future. And there’s a lot to look forward to.
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With Samsung’s recent announcement of not one, but two new foldable phones, it’s the big player in a market that’s still taking shape. That said, Samsung is one of the few companies offering foldable phones in the country, but experts expect that to change soon enough. Apple is sure to join the fray, and not too soon.
“More than anything, foldables bring back an element of fun that has been missing from the handset industry for the past five years,” Harish Jonnalagadda, a senior editor at Android Central, tells Lifewire over a WhatsApp message, noting that smartphones have largely looked the same for a while now.
Once little more than science fiction, you can now walk into a store and walk out with a phone that folds in the middle. The Galaxy Z Fold 4 and Galaxy Z Flip 4 are now the fourth generation of Samsung’s foldable phones, a pace of iteration that has allowed Samsung to build on its early successes and improve on its failures.
