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CTOnews.com, July 20 / PRNewswire-Asianet /-- Nothing recently launched the Phone 2 smartphone, which is a mid-to-high-end model with great personality. However, Carl Pei, the company's founder, made some controversial remarks about folding screen phones at the press conference, saying that they were "unnecessary innovations" that were "forced by manufacturers" and did not bring real value to consumers. This remark caused many people's dissatisfaction that Pei only vilified the technology because it did not have a folding screen phone.

In a recent interview with The Verge, Pei further explained his point of view. He acknowledges that Nothing does not have enough resources to develop folding screen phones, so it needs to focus on products that are profitable and popular. "folding and flip phones are not exciting enough at the moment," he says. "over time, as this category matures, as the screen wrinkles really disappear, as applications adapt to this new form, we may consider entering this field."

Pei also believes that folding screen phones won't let Android beat iOS: "We're not saying no, but I don't think it's something that can really change the rules of the game, I don't think it's something that allows Android to win over iOS, I don't think it's something that will turn us from a niche smartphone maker into the next big technology company."

It is worth noting that Android is still the largest mobile operating system in the world. But Apple's iOS is still ahead of Android in two key areas. First, iPhone accounted for 75 per cent of the global market in 2022 at the high end of the market with wholesale prices of more than $600m (CTOnews.com Note: currently about 4338 yuan). In addition, according to the Canalys report in the first quarter of 2023, Apple accounted for more than half of the North American market.

Although Android manufacturers have pioneered many hardware innovations in recent years, such as ultra-fast charging, 5x and 10x zoom lenses, one-inch sensors, large-size ultrasonic fingerprint recognition, off-screen cameras and folding screen phones, but Apple still beat Android devices in these two key areas.

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