In Depth: Chinese Firms Bending Over Backward to Offer Foldable Phones

As Chinese suppliers begin to catch up in foldable phone technology, domestic smartphone brands are betting that the novel technology will set them apart in a highly competitive yet relatively stagnant handset market.

It comes even as high manufacturing costs, troubling failure rates and a lack of software remain significant hurdles.

With their bendable displays, foldable phones function like a regular handset when folded, but unfold to form a larger screen resembling a tablet.