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What was the first consumer gadget to feature a foldable display?

Huawei Mate X

Royole FlexPai

Samsung Galaxy Fold

ZTE Axon M

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Ask most people to name the first folding-screen device and they will say Galaxy Fold. The real answer is a phone almost nobody outside China ever held: the Royole FlexPai, unveiled in Beijing on October 31, 2018, sold in a flash sale the following day, and shipped to buyers that December.

Royole was not a phone company. It was a Silicon Valley and Shenzhen display manufacturer that had been building ultra-thin flexible AMOLED panels since 2012, and the FlexPai existed largely to prove those panels could ship in a real product before Samsung Display or BOE beat it there.

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