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Last week Motorola released the moto razr 2022 folding screen mobile phone. Motorola, the price butcher in the mobile phone industry, directly reduced the price of this folding screen mobile phone to 5,999 yuan, making it the cheapest folding screen mobile phone currently on the market. Compared with the top-down folding Huawei P50 Pocket phone (priced at 8,988 yuan), the price has dropped by 33%, and the left-right folding OPPO Find The launch price of N is only 7,999 yuan.
Many users are very excited when they see this price and want to try a folding screen mobile phone. So is now a good time to buy a foldable phone? I think we can wait a little longer.
(1) Why do the prices of foldable screen mobile phones drop again and again?
When folding screen mobile phones were first released, they were expensive, costing tens of thousands of yuan. Moreover, because of the obvious creases, the market acceptance was not high. Users cannot afford it and the mobile phones cannot be sold, which gives mobile phone manufacturers a headache when promoting folding screen mobile phones. Although it is a high-end product, it is too niche to survive.
So even though the hardware cost of folding screen mobile phones has not dropped much, and the continuous investment in research and development has also cost manufacturers a lot of money, mobile phone manufacturers have still lowered the prices of folding screen mobile phones in order to attract more Many users purchased folding machines, cultivating users’ usage habits and gradually opening up the market. It is foreseeable that the price of folding screen mobile phones will continue to drop, and some sub-mobile phone brands will even produce cost-effective folding phones, so users who are not in a hurry to use them can wait.
(2) The current cost of repairing for folding screen mobile phones is high
After buying a folding screen mobile phone, you must take good care of the screen and never drop it on the ground, because the maintenance cost of folding screen mobile phones is very expensive. It only costs the same to replace a screen. I bought a candy bar flagship phone.
And if it breaks now, you can only go to the official for repairs. Many of the spare parts for folding machines at third-party repair centers are incomplete, and it is very likely that the third party will not repair it for you, because the hinges and shafts require very high skills. With the popularity of foldable screen mobile phones, this phenomenon will most likely decrease.
Even if I buy a folding screen, I myself prefer to buy a large folding screen mobile phone that folds left and right. This kind of mobile phone can also use an external screen. Compared with the up and down folding mobile phone that needs to be opened every time, the folding screen The times will be fewer and the creases will be lighter. Do you guys make the same choice as me?
Overall, foldable screen mobile phones are in a period of rapid development and will be the fastest growing smartphone product category this year. According to counterpoint data, the global number of foldable screen mobile phones is expected to increase by 73% year-on-year to 16 million units in 2022. You can look forward to what surprises the rapidly developing foldable screen mobile phones will bring us.
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