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November 6, 2018 08:37 am -08

The first foldable smartphone is here, but don't get too excited yet

The first foldable phone is here and it's not from Samsung.

Chinese company Royole has (just barely) beaten the Korean electronics giant to the punch with its FlexPai (pronounced "flex-pie") handset, the first foldable phone you'll actually be able to buy. 

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For now the phone is available for pre-order as a developer edition and costs $1,318 for 128 GB of storage, and $1,469 for 256 GB. It won't actually ship until December but I had the opportunity to take an early look at the FlexPai at a press event in San Francisco.

While the FlexPai is an exciting development for anyone who has been waiting for bendy smartphones to become a reality, it's painfully obvious that the software has not yet caught up. And without compelling software, I'm still not convinced that anyone really needs a phone that can fold itself in two. Read more...

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