Huawei started selling their second generation of foldable phone Mate Xs on 5th, March, then three platforms Vmall, JD and Tmall are all sold out of their stock in 30 minutes. There is no new technology like foldable display that can attract collective attention from industry and consumer since smartphone industry entered innovation bottleneck. Evolution of smartphone is always tightly linked to the display technology and thus many people deduct that foldable display will raise a technological revolution in smartphone industry. Besides foldable display, core technology of foldable phone also includes hinge system, 5G function and operating system. Foldable phone hinge magnet may become another flash point like taptic engine magnet.
About Foldable Phone Hinge Magnet
The hinge system of foldable phone is mainly used to support rotation and connect display. Hinge system should have thinner structure and stable performance to reduce the gap between two displays after folding. Hinge system also needs relatively high rotation accuracy and frictional coefficient at the same time. In fact, the structure of hinge system is extremely complicated which assembled by over one hundred parts. Foldable phone hinge magnets are served to assist the hinge system and adopted by several mainstream smartphone manufacturers.
