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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

Just… why…?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I can see this having some advantages over two-folds. The unfolded screen has a better aspect ratio, there's no need for a "back"-screen and all folds have only one screen on them, allowing the full thing to be thinner.

Price is an issue of course, as well as it having HarmonyOS instead of Android (less app compatibility).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Coming soon, they will unveil the Huawei xxMatexx XTX Pro X design.

[–] [email protected] 93 points 1 week ago (8 children)

do not want. want removable and replaceable batteries and storage, also a headphone jack because fuck you.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Motorola has ⅔ of that on many models.

Removable battery not an option though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I could complain about my experience from a few motos the recent years but let's just say I would no longer recommend getting a moto.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 week ago (21 children)

I don't understand the folding phone thing. It feels like tech now is all about creating ridiculous features and tech companies trying to convince us that we want them while ignoring things that would actually be worthwhile like repairable phones, headphones jacks and minimal bloatware.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I can actually see the value in a trifold like the one pictured. In your pocket it’s a phone. When you unfold it, it’s an iPad. You’re consolidating devices.

That said, I’m not a fan of folding lcd screen tech used today. It creases. I’d rather see three separate bezel-less screens that magnetically join to make a larger surface.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

I see it the same way. I would love a tablet I could fit in my pocket.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Not many people get it until they get one. I got a fold 3 when it came out and have just upgraded to a fold 6 because i just couldn't go back. Its a better form factor for a mobile computing device. Its a phone thats also a small tablet! I gave my old one to my wife who was always averse to getting a fold and she has told me multiple times since then that its her favourite phone shes ever had.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It is pretty useful and convenient if your use case suits it but I don't think that fits the majority of people. For me my Fold 6 replaced my Kindle and Surface. It's nice to able to open it up to read ebooks and manga since opened up, it's pretty much the dimensions of a typical book. Also makes things a lot easier when I need to remote into a PC or SSH into stuff and is a really convenient sketch pad for ideas.

It's also really neat that it's not ridiculously wide like every other phone out there nowadays since I have small hands.

My Fold 3 lasted 3 years with no issues until I traded it in so I think they're fairly well built.

In this case with the trifold, I personally think it's way too big but I'm someone who's never seen the point of tablets that were larger than 7 inches anyways. Always preferred a laptop at those sizes.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I've used a Z Fold 4 for two years now and it's been the best phone I've ever had. Desktop versions of websites, on my phone, without feeling cramped. Two apps side by side, both roughly the size of a usual phone screen. Huge screen for retro emulation using a Bluetooth controller. All with still having a small screen for one handed use and more traditional scrolling.

Games like Hearthstone, Gwent, Chess, Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition, Roller Coaster Tycoon Classic, feel way more playable.

At this point, using any other device feels limited and cramped in ways that a big screen doesn't.

My only complaint has been price, and I only got mine because my company paid for it

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

It's really not bad, especially for reading, especially if your eyes aren't what they used to be.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

they can make intricate folding devices now.

but making them repairable is somehow fucking impossible.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's not impossible for them to do. They just don't want to do it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I don't want to cure cancer, I want to turn people into dinosaurs!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I suppose that would be an improvement for the people with cancer (assuming the options are mutually exclusive). I don't think it would be that great for everyone else though so on balance I cannot support this idea.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Holding out for the Anne Frank Trapper Keeper phone.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Do you mean Lisa Frank, the artist for colorful animals on school supplies, and not Anne Frank, the famous diarist who was killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Shit. That's a big oops. Been a very long day.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

Lmao thank you for leaving your comment unedited.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

An Anne frank fold out phone would be a hell of an art piece. I think it could give Lisa Frank a run for her money.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can hear the sand crunching.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

this is going to be like the Gillette blades

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

That'd be cool. Buy one cheap phone frame, and a pack of 8 screen+electronics assys for $20,000.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

They already stuck a screen on the back

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Gimme a fucking keyboard instead of extra screen size

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

they also give a keyboard for that extra screen size

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

Is it stupid? Yes! Yes it is certainly. But I's it fucking stupid? It certainly is fucking.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Folds.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

Y'all are so stuck in the old linear thinking. Be brave, expand your mind. Rubik's cube phone when?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Screw that, I want a phone that folds into a fucking origami crane

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (7 children)

This technology gets interesting, when I can unfold a full 27" 2k screen.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Plastic screen on the outside seems nice when my gorilla glass screen still manages to scratch

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Whilst I agree the technology is awesome, £2,000 for a phone, wow, no thanks.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Phones are becoming the new wallets to the point we need something slimmer to pay with soon again.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Westworld here we come!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

This is dumb and stupid

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