{"id":1034712,"date":"2026-09-12T09:07:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T03:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1034712"},"modified":"2026-09-12T09:32:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T04:02:46","slug":"how-2026-became-the-year-of-the-passport-style-foldable-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/12\/how-2026-became-the-year-of-the-passport-style-foldable-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"How 2026 became the year of the passport-style foldable phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Book-style foldable phones have always been about a tall aspect ratio that opens up into a tablet-sized display, until 2026, when phone makers altered the shape. Instead of the long pencil-box shaped layout, foldable phones have started to evolve into passport-shaped devices with wide cover screens and even wider main screens. <\/p>\n<p>Driven by a desire for better ergonomics, utility and comfortable one-handed typing, smartphone manufacturers have overwhelmingly embraced a new footprint \u2013 the short, wide, \u201cpassport-style\u201d form factor. Huawei showed its first on the Pura X Max for the Chinese market, and Samsung followed it up with the Galaxy Z Fold 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book-style foldable phones have always been about a tall aspect ratio that opens up into a tablet-sized display, until 2026, when phone makers altered the shape. Instead of the long pencil-box shaped layout, foldable phones have started to evolve into passport-shaped devices with wide cover screens and even wider main screens. Driven by a desire for better ergonomics, utility and comfortable one-handed typing, smartphone manufacturers have overwhelmingly embraced a new footprint \u2013 the short, wide, \u201cpassport-style\u201d form factor. Huawei showed its first on the Pura X Max for the Chinese market, and Samsung followed it up with the Galaxy Z [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034768,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034712\/revisions\/1034768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}