{"id":620709,"date":"2026-09-10T20:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T20:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/620709\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T20:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T20:28:10","slug":"trendforce-apple-to-capture-a-quarter-of-the-folding-phone-market-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/620709\/","title":{"rendered":"TrendForce: Apple to capture a quarter of the folding phone market in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following yesterday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/apple_iphone_duo_fold-13804.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iPhone Duo<\/a> announcement, TrendForce published a new report that outlines the state of the foldable phone market for 2027. According to the report, Apple will ship 5 million units of its folding phone by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"622\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789072090_467_gsmarena_003.jpg\" alt=\"TrendForce: Apple to capture a quarter of the folding phone market in 2026\"\/><\/p>\n<p>If this prediction turns out to be true, then Cupertino would be sitting at a 24.8% market share, which would slot it in second place, right behind Samsung. Global folding phone shipments are expected to reach 20.2 million units in 2026, which would make for a 0.5% rise compared to 2025.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"799\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789072090_855_gsmarena_002.jpg\" alt=\"TrendForce: Apple to capture a quarter of the folding phone market in 2026\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The upward trend with folding phones is then projected to reach 23.5 million shipments in 2027. TrendForce estimates that Samsung will account for 7.1 million shipments with a corresponding 35% market share, while Huawei is expected to reach 5 million shipments for its folding phones and a 24.8% market share. The report notes hardware improvements and AI use cases as the main driving factors for the upward trend in foldable phone adoption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-source\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trendforce.com\/presscenter\/news\/20260910-13228.html \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following yesterday\u2019s iPhone Duo announcement, TrendForce published a new report that outlines the state of the foldable phone&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[61,60,202,80],"class_list":["post-620709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mobile","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}