Foldable Phones Likely to Be 2019's ‘Ultimate Device Status Symbol,’ Blogs SA

It's estimated $1,500 cost will be a major “stumbling block” for Motorola’s Razr foldable smartphone, expected to debut in the U.S. this year exclusively through Verizon, blogged Strategy Analytics. “The price may end up looking cheap,” as SA speculates Samsung’s first foldable phone “will likely have a retail price of at least $2,000." The Razr “will be entering a crowded field,” SA said Thursday. Besides Samsung, Huawei, LG and others have announced foldable smartphones for 2019, it said. That “actual volumes” available for sale this year “will be extremely small” makes it likely that foldable smartphones will become “the ultimate device status symbol in 2019,” it said.