{"id":265911,"date":"2019-02-16T03:07:57","date_gmt":"2019-02-16T08:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=265911"},"modified":"2019-02-16T03:07:57","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T08:07:57","slug":"tech-companies-develop-smartphones-with-foldable-displays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/265911","title":{"rendered":"Tech companies develop smartphones with foldable displays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fYPoJZk8RlE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen title=\"Xiaomi&#39;s folding phone concept might be the best we&#39;ve seen | Engadget Today\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Xiaomi CEO Lin Bin shows in a video published on Weibo that the Chinese manufacturer has the first prototype of a foldable smartphone. Unlike Royoles Flexpai, Xiaomi&#8217;s device has two joints. The construction looks quite suitable for everyday use.<\/p>\n<p>The device can be folded not only at one point of the display but at two. The two outer quarters can be folded back. Then the tablet turns into a handy looking smartphone. When Lin flips the screen backward during operation, the user interface adapts to the new shape.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, the collapsed device seems to be much thinner than the Flexpai, another foldable smartphone that has been developed by Royole, an American-based Chinese company that manufactures flexible electronics.<\/p>\n<p>In Xiaomi&#8217;s prototype, the two joints seem to have a rather small radius, resulting in a flat smartphone in the folded state.<\/p>\n<p>The disadvantage of two joints is already easy to recognize in the video: As with the Flexpai, the joints do not manage to get the screen completely straight in the unfolded state. The company hasn&#8217;t announced the release day yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xiaomi CEO Lin Bin shows in a video published on Weibo that the Chinese manufacturer has the first prototype of a foldable smartphone. Unlike Royoles Flexpai, Xiaomi&#8217;s device has two joints. The construction looks quite suitable for everyday use. The device can be folded not only at one point of the display but at two. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":265912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Foldable-smartphones.jpg?fit=1140%2C639&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-17aT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265913,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265911\/revisions\/265913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}