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In september, the mobile phone market had two words, “higher prices” and “fold screens”. One is due to the cost of the chips, and one is due to increased demand。
The world's giants have come to the fore, and the major producers have put up a stack of folding-screen tracks, once high and exclusively digitalized, and are now walking into the eyes of ordinary consumers。
Product sales are good for industry, producers and consumers. But i'd like to say "cool water": the amazing experience of the screen is true, but it's expensive and expensive to repair, and it's not completely resolved。
The insides of the track will be upgraded, and by the end of 2026, the stacking of the screens will have broken billions
A few years ago, the folding screen was just a handful of toy tastes, priced in the thousands, equipped with less mature hardware and software, and many problems arose, and ordinary users were barely able to consider it。
In just a few years, the entire track has been completely reversed, with the giants continuing to add a collage, and the folding screen completes the full transformation。
The screen is fading, the fuselage is thinning and the ability to continue is steadily improving, and interactive functions, such as multi-tasking screens and large-screen office views, continue to be optimized. The folding of mobile phones combines the portable and small flat screen advantages of the rectangular, multi-purpose features that precisely capture the needs of high-end users。
As technology continues to be decentralized and entry-level stacking prices continue to fall, it ceases to be the exclusive preserve of the rich, with sales rising year after year, tearing down the labels and becoming the most important direction for the intermingling of smartphones. The latest report released by counterpoint predicts that over 100 million mobile phone deliveries will be made by the end of 2026, sufficient to prove the unique product value of the folding screen。
There's one thing. There's still technology
The output went up, but one thing said, the technology is still there。
Even after many generations of grinding, folding screens will not be able to escape the label of "precision and shredding" and durability will be difficult to catch up with traditional straight-board phones, with low error tolerance being a birthright shortboard。
Many manufacturers have promoted millions of folding tests, and many consumers have mistakenly assumed that this data represents daily use of safe and secure, but the ideal laboratory environment, and the real scene of squeezing of their pockets and the infestation of their dust, are completely different. The flexible inner screens and the precision chains of the folding screens are both the brightest and weakest spots of product innovation。
Ordinary straight-line mobile phones rely on whole steel-coated glass to fight wrestling, with little stress on daily bumps. The inner screen of the folding screens uses special flexible material, and the collages of the rotors tend to accumulate dust and may be loosed after long periods of operation. An inadvertent squeeze, bumping and even hard friction can cause a leak in the screen, an increase in the crease and a breakdown in touch。
In short, you can use a straight-line phone as a consumer, but a folding screen phone is a work of art
It's more expensive to pay for
If impatience is only a small flaw, the high cost of maintenance is the most lethal, untreated pain of the folding screen。
The current main folder type, with the single replacement of the inner screen, is in general in the order of $300 to $5,000, and the price of the high-end flag ship is almost equal to half the new machine. Maintenance prices remain high and are rooted in special integrated hardware structures。
The fold screen inner screen, the touch layer, and the protective layer are crushed together, unlike a straight-board mobile phone, which is capable of replacing external glass alone, and, once the inner screen has been damaged, only the complete replacement screen is complete. This, together with the sophisticated parts of the chains, the low availability and limited availability of spare parts, the cumbersome maintenance process and the consequent high labour costs。
More realistically, the overall failure rate of the folding screen is higher than that of a regular straight-line mobile phone, with ash entry, low-temperature touch failure, acoustic sound and screen loss being a high frequency problem. Once beyond the warranty period, a single maintenance cost would be sufficient to start with a medium-end straight-line mobile phone。
It can be said that the cost of follow-up repairs has exceeded the cost of traditional mobile phones several times from the moment they were purchased。
Personal cold thinking: the folding screen is good and not good for everyone
Over the years, two of the most rolling industries, one of which was a new energy car and one of which was a mobile phone。
Objectively, the product advantages of folding screens are real, with large screen interaction, multi-scene flexibility to switch, portable forms, and the resulting escalation of the unattainable experience of straight-line mobile phones, as well as important innovations in smartphones breaking growth bottlenecks。
However, it is equally impossible to ignore the fact that the aircraft are very delicate, that maintenance costs are high and that the price of the whole machine is limited. This determines that folding screens are difficult to universalize and are not suitable for each category of consumers。
The value of folding screens is far more than flawed for users with adequate budgets, customary care, and front-screen experience. But if mobile phones are dropped and dropped with their hands, priority is given to saving durability and value for money, folding screens become a burden, and traditional straight-board flagships remain a more secure option。
Sometimes the simpler, the more reliable, like in nokia。
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