Watch a demo of Royole’s new folding telephone, on sale right this moment for roughly $1,500

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The world’s first commercially out there folding-screen telephone wasn’t made by Samsung, Huawei or Motorola — it was the Royole Flexpai, a tool that we known as “charmingly terrible.” However in March, Royole promised to refine the thought with the brand new FlexPai 2, and the corporate is formally launching that telephone in China right this moment beginning at 9,988 yuan, or roughly US $1,471.

And whereas the corporate is usually solely sharing renders as a substitute of pictures right this moment, you can see a demo of the telephone at roughly 38 minutes into the corporate’s presentation:

It seems pretty smooth? At 6.3mm thick when flat (12.8mm folded), it’s not almost as skinny because the dual-screen Microsoft Floor Duo, but it surely sounds thinner than Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 2’s 6.9mm body (together with the…

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