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I guess we're MWC 2019 and this is the first year that we've actually seen a number of flexible displays actually making their way into consumer products so we figured we do a roundup of all these new flexible phones that are coming out so stay tuned so the first phone that we're gonna talk about is a Samsung Galaxy fold and this was Samsung's first foray into this whole foldable phone market they're really the first one that basically said yeah we're gonna make this consumer ready phone it is a mass-market phone and you can buy it in April so basically the Galaxy fold folds closed as if you were kind of like closing a clamshell and it's got the screens on the inside as opposed to on the outside of the phone now if you open the phone you basically get this long tablet with a little notch in the top right corner for the cameras and then whatnot and you can basically turn your phone which is like a pretty big phone already into this 7.3 inch tablet which is pretty massive you got to say but it's not as big as the second phone on our list which is the huawei mate X now the while we may X surprise everyone basically because it folds backwards it doesn't close like a clamshell it really folds kind of to be outside of itself and this phone is really interesting because the main display is still really huge it's over six inches and it basically works as a giant phone and when you unfold it you get this 8 inch tablet which is even bigger than Samsung's offering and we have to play with it for a little bit it's got this little hinge design on the side that allows you to hold it and also has the cameras housed in there so it's really easy to use and we're really excited about the huawei mate X just a quick note that our MWC coverage is brought to you by digit daily your daily dose of tech straight to your inbox check out the description below to learn more next we got this TCL foldable phone concept and we didn't get to play with this phone we didn't even really get to see it fold but TCL just wanted to show off that they can also make a foldable phone and they're aiming to make it more affordable so the Samsung Galaxy fold and the huawei mate X are extremely expensive they're like $2,000 or more and TCL is saying no we want to make this more for the mass-market so they're not releasing anything right now they're not announcing any consumer ID products but they did say that they want to make a much cheaper foldable phone option that will probably be coming in like 2020 or so let's forget the Oppo prototype foldable phone and it looks a lot like the huawei mate X and they didn't actually show it off here MWC but I think got a little hasty and just revealed it on Weibo which is this Chinese social media website because they saw all these other manufacturers dropping these foldable phones and they really wanted to get into the market so an executive at Oppo actually released these pictures and we've only really seen pictures so far I think we maybe have like a clip a video but it looks a lot like the huawei mate X and we're excited to see what they can do with their foldable phone concept and next we've got their royale flex pay and you probably remember this phone because it was basically the first foldable phone concept that we actually saw we saw at CES and even a little bit before that we got a little briefing with it but they're also here at MWC 2019 and it seems like they've updated the software on their foldable phone so it works a lot more smoothly than it did before so they're really rapid prototyping this thing and it's nice to see that they are upgrading it over time now a number of other brands are definitely going to get into this foldable space a lot of people have said yeah we need to compete we need to make sure that we're in the mix because honestly there's gonna be a ton of big manufacturers that are gonna be releasing foldable phones in 2019 and 2020 it really seems like this is a brand new product category that's gonna take off this year so excited to see what other manufacturers decide to jump into the fray so that's been it for are foldable roundup here at MBC 2019 we've got a ton of other coverage of every other phone regular phone that's been released here at MWC make sure you head over to our YouTube channel stay over at Android authority comm for all the news all the exciting features coming to these phones this year and I will catch you in the next video