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Foldables are sort of boring now — and that’s great news for Apple

Foldables are sort of boring now — and that’s great news for Apple
The Verge Sunday 02 August 2026, 12:00 UTC By Dominic Preston 2 min read
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How it started

Believe it or not, it didn't all start with Samsung. Royole, a now-bankrupt manufacturer of flexible displays, was the first to release a commercial folding phone, the "charmingly awful" FlexPai. Samsung's first Galaxy Fold followed a year later, plagued by a variety of faults that saw review units break within days. That launch went so badly that it prompted Chinese riva …

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