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Description: Royole Flex Pai : The world's first Foldable Smartphone You Can Buy Now The Royole FlexPai is available to buy in China right now, and comes in at a pretty hefty $1300 The Royole FlexPai is the sort of device that companies rush out when they feel the absolute imperative to be first with some new technology. Measuring 7.8 inches diagonally, this is an Android tablet in its extended mode which becomes two, not just one, Android phones when it’s flexed closed. It provides two SIM slots and tries to provide an auto-detection system that only shows content on the half of the folded screen that you’re facing at any given time. One of the two phones is assigned as the primary, and its content spills out onto the full tablet when the device is opened. You get a 1920 x 1440 resolution on the full display, which shrinks to less than half when you’re in phone mode. The phone features a bendable 7.8-inch AMOLED screen that's made out of flexible plastic and has a 1440p resolution. Running along the back of the FlexPai is a hinge, where you can bend the device in half as if you're closing a book. You can leave it bent and propped up, or close it altogether, wherein it'll snap together with embedded magnets. When it's closed, it functions as any standard phone would, and depending on what side of the screen you hold it by, you can navigate on a screen with either a 16:8 or 16:9 aspect ratio. The FlexPai runs an OS called Water and it's layered on top of Google Android 9.0. Whichever way you choose to hold or bend the device, the screen adjusts to the many different orientations and viewing options. During my brief time with it, the FlexPai's screen appeared vibrant and colorful, and the hinge and enclosing mechanism felt sturdy. But the device still needs work. Aesthetically, it still looks like a prototype rather than a refined and polished product. As a double-sided phone, the FlexPai is quite squarish and thick, making it hard to hold. (Although it's slim when flattened out as a tablet.) The screen was also buggy while switching orientations, and it was hard swiping and tapping through different home screens without the FlexPai registering all my unintentional touches from the different sides of the screen as I was holding it. But FlexPai won't be the only flexible phone you'll see in the months to come. In addition to Samsung, LG is rumored to be working on its own phone, and it could debut as soon as the beginning of next year. Huawei reported that it's developing a foldable phone too, and it'll be equipped with high-speed 5G connectivity. Until these phones eventually launch, however, it looks like these tech giants were outrun by this small Royole company and its FlexPai phone. And while the device itself is still rough around the edges, at least it can say it was first.