Honor plans international release for its foldables

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Chinese smartphone maker Honor has plans to bring its foldables to markets outside of its home country. Its CEO George Zhao confirmed the news at IFA 2022 in Berlin. We expect its next foldable device to come out in the first quarter of 2023. Zhao hasn't shared specifics about the upcoming device, but the brand's focus for its foldables is to make them thinner, lighter, and more affordable. Europe seems to be the target market, but we're keeping an eye out if it'll make its way to this side of the world.

As The Verge pointed out, the first quarter release will come roughly a year after Honor debuted its first foldable, the Honor Magic V.

New leak suggests the Motorola Razr will have mid-range specs but premium price tag

Maybe you want to be one of the first to own a reimagined version of the Motorola Razr. Well, you're going to have to pay for it. This rumoured foldable device will reportedly have a hefty US$1,500 price tag. According to "verified information" LetsGoDigital got from an anonymous source, the redesigned Motorola Razr is coming soon. And it could come to the U.S. in just a "few months." The phone modernizes the clamshell design with this rumoured foldable display hidden inside. The dimensions of the phone aren't known yet, but recent renders did show that we can expect a small second screen on the outside for notifications.

According to the report, the premium price tag doesn't seem to match the specs of the phone. It will reportedly not come with a high-end processor, and it'll supposedly have a "smaller battery" than other foldable phones. It seems Motorola wants to bank on the nostalgia of the form factor. But we aren't sure if that would make people want to shell out that much money. The report suggests that there will be a European launch after the U.S. debut that could take place between December 2019 and January 2020. If there's any truth to this report, then we might be seeing the phone this fall.

Source: Android Authority

The S Pen might be coming to the next-gen Galaxy Fold

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We’re not exactly counting on this rumour to be true, but the Korean media is buzzing with claims about Samsung’s next Galaxy Fold. Yes, the next one, even if the first one hasn’t even left Samsung’s gates. But we want to indulge the idea a bit and think about what Samsung might bring to the next-gen Galaxy Fold. Rumour has it the Galaxy Fold 2 will get a screen size upgrade, going from 7.3 inches to 8 inches, placing it in Samsung’s tablet territory (close to its own Galaxy Tab A, in fact).

On top of that, Samsung is reportedly toying with the idea of adding support for the S Pen stylus. As SlashGear points out, this raises an important question. For the Galaxy Fold to support the S Pen, it’ll need a Wacom digitizer, which doesn’t exist for foldable surfaces just yet. There have been Chinese digitizers that have been used on flexible drawing tablets, but we don’t think Samsung might head down that route. Or could they? Is there even a point to working on a second-generation one when the first-gen hasn’t even made its way to the public yet?

Samsung is reportedly working on a folding clamshell phone

The upcoming Moto Razr isn’t the only folding clamshell smartphone coming to market, at least according to this report from the Economic Times of Korea. Samsung is reportedly working on a new clamshell phone that unfolds into a 6.7-inch smartphone. Unlike the Galaxy Fold that expands into a bigger tablet-like device, this new form factor aims to emphasize portability. It’ll have a smaller 1-inch screen on the outside for things like notifications. As for when this product will hit the market, the Economic Times claims it could come in the first quarter of 2020.

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