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Mr. Mobile | The Folding Phone Is Getting Wide Again

If you think you know folding phones, think again, because by all accounts we’re staring down a second half of 2026 filled with a different kind of foldable: the widebody.

But we’ve been here before. Oppo was first to split the difference between the clamshell and book-type form factors in 2021 with the Find N, a phone that sold well enough to justify a sequel the following year.

In 2023, Google followed suit with the even squatter Pixel Fold, and for a minute there, it felt like this might be the future of foldables. (Even Microsoft was in the mix for a minute with its dual-screen Surface Duo.)

But then as quickly as they appeared, these in-betweeners evaporated, with Oppo and Google returning to more conventional aspect ratios, leaving only Huawei to carry the squatty-smartphone torch with its (China-exclusive) Pura X and Pura X Max.

So why are Samsung and Apple taking us back to the widebody world, and how should we feel about that?

Let’s, erm ... unfold that.

Michael Fisher

Michael Fischer

Mr. Mobile | The Folding Phone Is Getting Wide Again

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