Folding phones got a lot of attention at the Mobile World Congress tech conference, but releases from big industry players meant Energizer's more interesting design was ignored, says Holly Brockwell.

The annual Mobile World Congress (MWC) conference in Barcelona has just wrapped up, and this year all the headlines were about folding phones. Samsung launched the butterfly-like Galaxy Fold, Huawei launched the outward-folding Mate X and lots of other brands made a splash with their take on the folding trend. Except one.
Admittedly, it's hardly a big player in the smartphone world, but Energizer ? yes, of the bunnies and batteries ? shows off interesting handset designs every year, and every year we focus on the wrong ones.
This time, the brand exhibited a series of smartphones with, as you might expect, humongous battery packs. But Energizer also showed off a folding phone of its own, and it almost entirely flew under the radar despite being easily one of the most interesting devices of the conference. Energizer stole its own thunder
One big reason Energizer's folding phone didn't grab the limelight is that the same brand also makes a really gimmicky "how-big-a-battery-can-we-fit-in-a-phone" handset every year, and 2019's design was so completely ridiculous that the tech media couldn't help reporting on it, with its other more realistic phones relegated to footnotes. In other words, Energizer stole its own thunder.
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