Royole Introduces 'FlexPai', the World's First Commercial Foldable Smartphone With a Fully Flexible Display

Royole Introduces 'FlexPai', the World's First Commercial Foldable Smartphone With a Fully Flexible Display

Royole Corporation, a leading innovator and manufacturer of next-generation human-machine interface technologies and products including advanced flexible displays, flexible sensors, and smart devices, has introduced the world's first commercial foldable smartphone, a combination of mobile phone and tablet with a flexible screen, the Royole FlexPai. Disrupting consumers' traditional concept of a smartphone, the unit can be used either folded or unfolded, giving it the portability of a smartphone plus the screen size of a high-definition tablet. The FlexPai foldable smartphone is based on Royole's Flexible+ platform, which can be easily integrated into a variety of products and applications across numerous industries.

"The Royole FlexPai foldable smartphone provides mobile phone users with a revolutionary, different experience compared to traditional phones," stated Dr. Bill Liu, Royole founder and CEO. "It perfectly solves the contradiction between the high-definition large-screen experience and portability, which introduces a whole new dimension to the human-machine interface. The phone's inherent design will forever change the consumer electronics industry, as well as the way people interact with and perceive their world."

Continuing Royole's tradition of combining art and technology in its products, the FlexPai is elegantly designed with multiple form factors. When unfolded, FlexPai supports split-screen mode and multi-tasking; supports drag-and-drop across applications, enabling it to share features just as a computer does; automatically adjusts screen sizes; and provides enjoyable video-watching and gaming experiences.

When folded, FlexPai can support dual screens with separate, simultaneous operations. The interface on the primary and secondary screens can mutually interact with each other, or independently use different interfaces without interfering with one another. Users can also get notifications on the edge screen side bar, which can be used to manage calls, messages, and other notices that may disturb the primary and secondary screen usage.

The FlexPai's screen is one complete, fully flexible display with light, thin, colorful, and bendable features. Using Royole's innovative and proprietary technologies ensures the FlexPai's stability, reliability, and long life span, which have been fully verified by the company. FlexPai has passed bending, twisting, and tension tests over 200,000 times. The FlexPai can also be folded at different angles. On the software side, its unique Water OS automatically adapts different viewing modes for different folding angles and user scenarios, such as taking photos, office usage, video watching, gaming, and more.

FlexPai smartphone will be available to order globally beginning at 7:00pm PT on October 31, 2018 from the company's website. The consumer model will be available at the same time to Chinese consumers. Order fulfillment will start in late December, 2018.

Royole