This is going to be like shaving razors, isn’t it? How soon before quad-fold phones?
I’m waiting for one that unrolls like a bamboo placemat.
Behold, the iRoll!
🙄
A phone you can crumple up like a receipt before you put it in your pocket
That would finally be a convention to replace slacking the phone down in rage.
Well phones already vibrate so they're ahead of the curve in that regard.
I'm waiting for the twelvefold myself.
Not sure if we're talking about phone, razor blade, origami, or sword-making.
anything is a dildo if you’re brave enough
Nice, it has twice as many failure points as previous folding phones.
Why have a single point of failure when you can have multiple?
Redundancy!
Whose brilliant idea was it to demo this with a wallpaper that looks like a shitty diagonal screen fold?
It’s to make a subtle "Z"
Commitment: 10/10
Execution: 0/10
😲 Zorro is real!
I’d love to see a Japanese fan style phone 🪭 Maybe it folds up into a reusable straw?
You had me and then you lost me.
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Not that I'd ever buy it, but I'm looking forward to the price tag so I can have a good laugh.
*foldable tablet that can also make calls
Phones have been tablets, well phablets, for nearly a decade now.
That's absolutely phabulous!
Impressive from an engineering standpoint and it's only going to get more refined. Give it 5-10 years and maybe they will be durable enough for regular use.
This would be the coolest shit ever if these phones didn't have a reputation for breaking so easily. I had the Z Fold 4 and after I left it partially folded for about 30 mins in my car while I was driving, something went wrong with the hinge and it could no longer open fully flat. Unacceptable for a device at that price range.
I want us to go back when it comes to smartphones, not forward. Bring back the holy trinity of removable battery, headphone jack, and SD card slot.
This is a very cool piece of technology. The comments here naysaying about it seem odd to me. If it's not for you that's fine, but many millions of foldables have been bought over the past few years, and they continue to sell very well today
Why did they make the screens fold in? The Huawei Mate XT folds up in a z-shape, which imo makes more sense as you don't need a 'fourth' outer display anymore. Seems more efficient that way.
Because they're fragile. You don't want your screen to die on the first drop.
and you don't want it full of scratches, since cover glasses and protection cases will probably be quite complicated for these monstrosities?
I guess i don't really see the point. Is there a strong use case out there, or is this a marge's potato? ("I just think they're neat")
What is the point of current folding phones? I still fail to grasp that. This, however, seems more clear. It's a phone that can become a full on tablet. This is a true transformation into an otherwise disparate device. A phone that becomes a slightly bigger phone is the real mystery to me.
When you try to look at a spreadsheet and there are too many columns even in portrait mode, I open up the phone.
For some reason nobody figured out "zoom all the way out" functionality on the phone yet
When you start needing reading glasses, you'll know. I have a phone for outside the house and a tablet for home. I would much rather just have one device be both.
Sticking with my pixel 3a xl running ubuntu touch/waydroid for a while it seems.
Actually not the first tri-folded phone, but OK
Can use it to play D&D.
Yes, because the dual-fold phone did so great. Clearly the problem was a lack of folds
I look forward to trying it whenever it gets below £1000 refurbished.
Why?
No word on if it's coming to the EU :(
My pixel 6 is dying and I'd like to get something for graphene or another less monopolized distro but there's no support for phones released this year as far as I can tell from most distros so I'm looking for one more normal phone until hopefully that ecosystem is better off.
Even the new pixels look weak from several angles It was hard to get want them after all the reviews came in.
You're looking for a replacement for your Pixel that is also not too monopolized, and the first thing that comes to mind is Samsung?
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