Colossium Magazine March Issue_2019 | Page 20

The BATTLE of FOLDS Samsung Galaxy Fold Samsung and Huawei beats Apple to introduce the future of smartphones into the consumer market. Are folds really the future? 2019 will be the year of ‘folds’. At this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Huawei one of the world’s mobile phone giants unveiled their latest invention – Huawei Mate X. This comes after Samsung showed off its own long-anticipated Galaxy Fold folding phone. The Huawei Mate X when released will be sold for $2,299 whiles its counterpart the Samsung Galaxy Fold will go for $2,000. Both devices are defining the future of smartphones. They are what await us when it comes to smart phones. Who wouldn’t want that? In recent times smartphone manufacturers have been focusing on smartphones with high speed cameras which consumers seem to be having enough of. Since the’ no bezel screen’ era came upon smartphone users, the question consum- ers have been asking is what will be next? What is the future of smartphones? When it comes to innovation, there’s one company that comes to mind –Apple! Unfortunately the smartphone and computer company seems to be left out of the race so far. Experts say that Apple is at least 2 years behind the ‘folds’ race which many Ap- ple customers will not be happy about. Having a phone that doubles as a tablet for the price of one device is something everyone will jump on board so this is bad news to Apple fans – 2 years is a long wait.