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Just look at Huawei’s trifold phone
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I think in 5-10 years foldables will have a strong market presence.
Remember "phablets"; almost all smartphones eventually turned into phablets.
Which is, arguably, for the worse. I miss smaller 16:9 devices I could use one-handed and reach all the corners of. Almost cried when I had to give up my OnePlus 3 and everything now is an unwieldy, tall-skinny rectangle.
I've not had a hands-on experience with foldables yet, but the reviews I've read imply they still seem too fragile for the price.
I am not arguing for or against a given form factor, I personally like big screens, but I would only be happy for there to be offerings and more competition.
I am just saying that it's not completely unreasonable to speculate that in the future almost all smartphone will use the foldable format.
Oh, yeah, the speculation is not unreasonable. I just don't know if that's necessarily a good thing (unless there's a huge leap in durability preceding that).
I'm already rocking the foldable I like, anyway lol:
Cool device, what is the model?
Cat S22 Flip. Sadly discontinued as well as the manufacturer (Bullit) out the phone business.
This made my day.
My wrist hurts, gimme back my tiny pixel 4a.
What phone do you currently use?
The 4a 5G, ironically. Looks only a little bit wider, but the difference is quite significant in practice. It is on its last legs though and the replacement (9a) is in the mail.
Unless they manage to make those bending screens have Gorilla Glass 5, I think those are still gonna be rich people toys.
Way too fragile.
You could argue the same about the initial transition from hardware keypad phones to slab style touch screen phones.
I am not saying foldables will without doubt become mainstream, but it's not beyond the realm of possibility.