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TCL roadmap leak shows off 5G, foldable phones for 2020
Ready for more 5G andĀ foldable phones? Whether you are or not, more companies seem set to join Samsung and Huawei next year.
In a set of tweets Monday, noted leaker Evan Blass shared images of TCL's upcoming T1 phone as well as a leaked roadmap depicting the Chinese company's phone plans through much of 2020.
[...] A foldable TCL phone, listed on the roadmap as the Flextab, is listed to arrive in the third quarter of the year. Earlier this year a TCL executive told CNET that the company planned to launch its first foldable in 2020, with the leaked roadmap seemingly confirming that issues delaying the first batch of foldables, like Samsung's Galaxy Fold and Huawei's Mate X, haven't moved TCL off of its plans.
The Flextab listed appears to be a phone that unfolds into a tablet, which is just one of the many foldable ideas the company was working on.
Best known for its Roku TVs, TCL already sells phones in the US through its Alcatel and BlackBerry brands. The new devices, however, appear to use the company's own name. It's not clear in which countries they'll be sold.
TCL declined to comment.
So what do you think Soylentils? Are foldable screens the wave of the future?
(Score: 2) by driverless on Monday August 26 2019, @05:30AM
I also don't get it.. will the OS be written in Tcl? Is the 5G modem code implemented in Tcl? And why would your choice of scripting language dictate whether the phone is foldable?
Should also probably point out, just as a general aside, that every phone is foldable at least once.