iTWire Wednesday, 21 April 2021 09:35 Foldable smartphone sales seen reaching 18m by end of 2022 Shares Pixabay Foldable smartphones, not everyone's cup of tea after some models received a less than stellar welcome, are still expected to ship 18 million units by the end of 2022, the technology research firm Counterpoint Research says. In a statement, the firm's Charles Moon said foldables comprised just a fraction of a percent of the 1.3 billion smartphones sold in 2020. That figure is expected to rise to 1.2% by the end of next year. The low rate of growth was expected even as the industry experimented with different form factors, designs, materials and operating system variants.