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Folding Screens

Photo: Sam Rutherford/Gizmodo
Photo: Sam Rutherford/Gizmodo

This inclusion is sure to ruffle some feathers considering foldable phones are a nascent technology with a rocky past and an uncertain future. Come on, though, the technology is fascinating, and the latest round of foldable phones are more reliable (and less expensive) than ever. We can’t talk foldables without discussing the original Galaxy Fold, a phone so fragile that review units were recalled and the launch was halted until Samsung could make a new version.

Rather remarkably, Samsung did just that. The second attempt, while clunky and overpriced, fixed most of the durability issues of its ill-fated predecessor and gave us hope that this could work after all. But it wasn’t until the arrival of the newest model, the Galaxy Z Fold 3, that it started to feel like foldables could indeed be the next big thing for phones