Motorola is probably planning a successor to the foldable Razr smartphone
Our end devices have undergone a design change in the last ten years. While the first smartphones still had a lot of buttons and a thick screen bezel, today we enjoy large screens and fast processors with 5G on most Android and iOS devices. Foldable devices also seem to have found a market in the meantime.
In 2019, it still looked as if very few users saw possible folding as a purchase criterion. In a poll only 20 percent said that they would like such a feature. Nevertheless, we see more and more prototypes or generations of devices of this kind, Samsung lets us fold lengthways or crossways, Microsoft is doing its own thing with two screens and then there is Motorola, which made headlines with its new Razr.
The first two generations of the clamshell phone were less popular, the device was too expensive and too fragile. Now discovered the magazine Android Authority but a post by Chen Jin on Weibo that makes a new model likely. The manager of the Lenovo Mobile Business Group (parent company of Motorola) describes in it that they are working on an expansion of the foldable product line.
The new device should therefore have a better processor, a clear and comfortable interface and a new look. Jin did not comment on any further details, and it is also unclear in which price segment and market a new smartphone would be located.
A possible translation that the online magazine The Verge is available, allows the conclusion that the device will initially only appear in China. Therefore, an announcement exclusively on Weibo does not seem so absurd, but we are looking forward to new information that will be available in the next few months.
Until then, the market is likely to see great growth. In 2019 just under 3 million foldable smartphones were shipped, this number could increase to almost 50.1 million by next year (source [Paywall]). Personally, I am not yet convinced of foldable devices, but maybe with more use cases I will change my mind in the foreseeable future.
Via The Verge
