Foldable phones: The new future or a dead trend ?
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The foldable phone technology is very new and VERY expensive still. Probably will have a market among very rich and well to do people, not poor people like me. Even if I had a budget for it, I'd rather invest in a good ipad or tablet than have a fold phone. Like the fold phone reminds me of the sleeper couch functionality where the end product is neither a very good bed, nor a very good couch. Something is always in the way of it being a good couch or good bed. Ditto a foldable phone that has the folding a challenge for dealing with it as a phone and the other way round.
Kreesher
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Yozora
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I'm personally glad that smartphone makers are getting creative again. Smartphones have been getting all too fragile, and maybe a foldable phone might help solve that. I dislike that my old flip phone could survive a fall better than today's glass-backed smartphones. That said, new tech is usually buggy and expensive, so I'd likely wait a while before even considering buying a foldable phone.
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It may look like a marketing gimmick for the moment, but it's the future.
Any attempt to reduce the physical size of a device but restain it's usability and power should be considered an advancement as it suits the human needs. I have always been hoping my devices to be smaller without sacrificing screen size all that.
The problems of the new folding phones are more technical rather than conceptual, meaning the idea is not wrong and technological improvement may one day erase its shortcoming.
The technical problem with the samsung is its plastic screen that breaks or wrinkles easily. So the complaints are about the screen, not about its reduced size.
Any attempt to reduce the physical size of a device but restain it's usability and power should be considered an advancement as it suits the human needs. I have always been hoping my devices to be smaller without sacrificing screen size all that.
The problems of the new folding phones are more technical rather than conceptual, meaning the idea is not wrong and technological improvement may one day erase its shortcoming.
The technical problem with the samsung is its plastic screen that breaks or wrinkles easily. So the complaints are about the screen, not about its reduced size.
Few years ago I've took part in crowdfunding campain on Indiegogo.
It was a small foldable smartphone on the wrist.
Unfortunately campaign was terminated with moneyback.
Some China manufacturers demonstrated the same concepts this spring, I think it's the best possible lifeway for this devices.
It was a small foldable smartphone on the wrist.
Unfortunately campaign was terminated with moneyback.
Some China manufacturers demonstrated the same concepts this spring, I think it's the best possible lifeway for this devices.
I probably won't ever be able to afford the phone, but what I'd be worried about is the possibility of the phone falling. Like the more one needs to fiddle with folding and unfolding the phone when you are also multi tasking with something else the greater the chance for the phone slipping out of your hand and falling. Samsung has a bad record for screens easily cracking and the cost of fixing those is almost the equivalent of a new phone.
Yozora
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While in theory a folding phone might protect the screen from falls more, I suspect making a sturdy case for it might be hard. I also wonder if the hinge might break and then the phone might fall apart easily. Honestly I don't like the way flagship smartphones are so easily breakable nowadays, and this kind of design might make it worse. I know glass backs probably seems more "premium" to some people, but plastic backed phones are typically so much more durable, in my experience at least.
its a device used as marketing material for the company, if you buy it then it's good for the company if you don't its ok, the purpose of this device is to say that Samsung can do this.
basically it is overpriced to make it rare at this time, only rich can own one so it is a show-off, you get to have an iPhone and a flip in your hands to look rich
basically it is overpriced to make it rare at this time, only rich can own one so it is a show-off, you get to have an iPhone and a flip in your hands to look rich
Somehow looks like we had duplicate threads on foldable phones. I've chosen the oldest of the two threads to stay and have merged the posts of the duplicate (second) thread on Samsung's foldable phone into this thread.
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