Jul 26, 2026 – 12.41pmLondon | Launching his company’s latest generation of folding phones in London last week, Samsung president and chief executive TM Roh made a claim that should be familiar to anyone who has watched the symbiotic relationship between the mobile phone and the artificial intelligence industries flourish into a full-blown love affair.Phones, and in particular folding phones, were people’s first and best platform for AI, he said.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Fetching latest articles
How Samsung and Apple can survive the AI apocalypse
With phone prices rocketing due to an artificial intelligence-induced chip shortage, new interest in already expensive folding phones could help.
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