ZTE Announces the Axon M, a Folding Phone

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ZTE’s Axom M is a foldable, dual-screen phone that transforms into a tiny tablet: two 5.2-inch screens flatten out to give you 6.8 inches of screen real estate. What can you do with double the screens? Open two different apps, for one, each on its own display. You can also fold the phone like a sandwich board and mirror the content of one screen to the other.

ZTE USA announced the upcoming launch of the revolutionary ZTE Axon M with AT&T as the exclusive carrier in the United States available in the next month. The foldable, dual-screen smartphone will also be available to customers in China, Europe and Japan. The ZTE Axon M lets customers multitask and enjoy entertainment in new and exciting ways. The ZTE Axon M is the size of a traditional smartphone when folded, fitting easily into a pocket or purse and functions in four different modes.
 
So basically a donkey kong dual screen smartphone?
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I'm glad that in 30 years they made it touch screen and bezel-less. So advanced.
 
This phone is kind of pointless.....i was thinking the fold-able screen but its literally an attached extra screen not an extended screen that folds away. (still waiting on that to finally mature into a real product.)
 
It's the Kyocera (sp?) Echo... damn that thing sucked so awesomely
 
I'm guessing it's two separate screens that hinge together, and connect two bezel less halves together.

Edit:: From what I can gather, it's not what I described above. Fail. Maybe the market will justify it though.
 
TMCM said:
It's the Kyocera (sp?) Echo... damn that thing sucked so awesomely
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Had a friend that had the Echo. It really suffered from much hackyness to get Android apps to work with dual screens. Now that Android has it built in support it looks like it's much improved, plus there are many more tablet optimized apps that just work. No mention of the battery life as I'm curious how much that extra screen draws with real use.

I had expected Samsung or even Blackberry to release something like this but Samsung seem to be hell bent on a folding screen solution, and Blackberry is in pivot freefall.


This looks like a cool niche product someone out there someone will buy, but remains to be seen if ZTE will be able to keep up with timely android updates.
 
Wew, the samsung flip phones got me a little hot under the collar but this too will be getting my attention. Interesting.
 
lostin3d said:
I had this and the DK jr. Man those were awesome in the day!
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I had the one with the Mario Bros in a factory loading crates of bottles onto a truck. My dad found it, cleaned it up, put new batteries in it, and gave it to me a while back. Still works great! :cool: (and still moderately fun given its limitations)
 
Perhaps they should've asked themselves, why nobody did it before.
 
M76 said:
Perhaps they should've asked themselves, why nobody did it before.
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Because everyone else lacks vision of course! :D

Still, I could see this being somewhat useful if it was properly executed. However, I also see it being a liability. If it was a high-end milled aluminum casing, very thin for both halves, and had excellent performance, ran a non-bloated OS, (which would also price it way out of most peoples' acceptable ranges) it would actually be pretty cool.
 
M76 said:
Perhaps they should've asked themselves, why nobody did it before.
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Because there was no market for it. Looks like people in this thread are taking it a little unfairly - a lot of people would love a second screen to multitask on a mobile computing device. A lot of people would want a tablet without the size, too. In the phone world this is the dual-monitors stage.
 
greenman said:
Because there was no market for it. Looks like people in this thread are taking it a little unfairly - a lot of people would love a second screen to multitask on a mobile computing device. A lot of people would want a tablet without the size, too. In the phone world this is the dual-monitors stage.
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There is no market for it. People like the ones in this thread are the market. And it doesn't seem like they want it.

Don't forget that two screens means twice the bulk, twice the weight and twice the consumption.
 
greenman said:
Because there was no market for it. Looks like people in this thread are taking it a little unfairly - a lot of people would love a second screen to multitask on a mobile computing device. A lot of people would want a tablet without the size, too. In the phone world this is the dual-monitors stage.
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It would be useful in some business and management scenarios. E.g. showing a diagram to multiple personnel in a machine hall.
 
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