“It’s the latest news in tech! Foldable smartphones coming soon! The future is here!” Wait, we all had foldable phones back in the early 2000s! Yeah, the thing folded in half and flipped open with the flick of your thumb! Are we going back in time? The familiar, old flip phones (for anyone not old enough to remember) usually had a screen on one side and a keypad on the other, connected by a small hinge. The “clamshell” design. 

But nowadays, we need bigger and bigger screens. We’re now working and studying from our phones, watching movies and shows, multi-tasking with split-screen features. Watch a YouTube video on one side, chat on social media on the other! So, no, the future will be nothing like the past – it’ll be all about a big long bendable screen! That’ll be a reality sooner than you think because foldable screens already exist thanks to OLED display technology.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices