World's First Foldable Phone, Royole FlexPai, Was Quickly Sold Out In Its First Sales

Karamchand Rameshwar - Apr 29, 2019


World's First Foldable Phone, Royole FlexPai, Was Quickly Sold Out In Its First Sales

Despite receiving quite a few negative reviews, the Royole Flexpai was still sold out in its first sales.

No matter how hard Samsung tries, it still can’t change the fact that the Galaxy Fold will still not the first foldable phone in the world as the title belongs to a device made by a China-based company called Royole Technology. The first foldable phone in the world is called “Royole FlexPai” which was first introduced at the end of October 2018.

019 Royole Flexpai Phone Ces 2019

By December last year, the brand set the phone on pre-sale. And now, the Chinese company finally launched the first sales of this Royola FlexPai is now up at Tmall and it didn’t take long for buyers to grab all of the units available. However, Royola didn’t reveal the total devices sold of the first batch. There will be another sale batch which is set to be at 10 a.m on 9 May.

The foldable phone is offered in three memory configurations which are 6GB RAM / 128GB storage, 8GB RAM / 256GB storage, and 8GB RAM / 512GB storage. They are priced at CNY 8,999 (around Rs. 93,300), CNY 9,998 (around Rs. 103,600), and CNY 12,999 (around Rs. 134,700), respectively.

015 Royole Flexpai Phone Ces 2019

The Royole FlexPai only has a 7.6mm thickness, and it sports a 7.8-inch 2nd-gen AMOLED flap flexible display which is developed independently by Royole Technology. Its display is measured 4.3 inches in size when folded. To quickly charge the phone, the company is said to develop its own Ro-Charge tech that can charge 80 percent of its 3,970mAh battery in one hour.

 

Royole Flexpai 9282

The device is powered by a Snapdragon 855 SoC paired with up to 8GB of RAM and 512GB of storage. At the back, there are two cameras which are a 16MP shooter along with a 20MP camera.

Royole Flexpai 9300

The Galaxy Fold was scheduled to be the first mass-produced foldable phone in the world, but the plan failed because of design flaws. Another foldable phone from the Chinese phone maker, the Huawei Mate X, is set to go on sale in June.

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