Tech Demos keep showing rollable screens, and those look way more interesting to me than foldable
But all the demos are still not what I want, I'd want it to go from pager sized to feature phone sized 
this post was submitted on 27 Oct 2026
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Surely they at least thought about adding a thick border to prevent the screens from rubbing together, right?
The damage happens at the fold. Not sure anything can be done about that.
make a hinge that doesn't break and take out your fragile bendy screen?
there is a korean video where it broke in the same spot, and the part of the hinge that broke was very thin.
ffs, every other manufacturer has a fold phone, and none of them experience this high a failure rate, this quickly too.
ffs, every other manufacturer has a fold phone, and none of them experience this high a failure rate, this quickly too.
We don't know what the failure rate is, as of yesterday there were "at least 10 different confirmed cases". And I remember Samsung also had similar issues on their first fold phone for example.
Either way fold phones are stupid as far as I'm concerned and never should've been invented. Just another way to part idiots and their money.
ah that phone went a week without charging, which has as much to do with how much we used phones back as with how fast smart phones deplete battery.
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If they weren't a bazillion dollars I would love a tri-screen foldable (if it supported Graphene).
locally, it is cheaper than the iphone duo. although it is about 2 years old at this point.
I am talking about the Huawei mate XT. there seems to be a new one in the works though.
Still a bazillion. But where is locally?
For me it's the synchronized flipping
It's amazing isn't it that this product category has been around for nearly a decade and then apple come in with their version of the product and its back to generation 1. The whole point of Apple waiting around is so they can steal everybody else's innovations.
They made a βbetterβ hinge. Apparently thatβs whatβs failing and breaks the screen.
Which is hilarious because even their 'better hinge' tech is just a copy of the OPPO Find N's 3d resin smoothing idea.
What? The two processes are nothing alike, where did you hear that they were? OPPO is adjusting surface flaws in machined components by filling with 3D resin, whereas Apple is directly printing components from an amorphous metal.
where did you hear that they were? OPPO is adjusting surface flaws in machined components by filling with 3D resin,
Apple themselves, via techcrunch
βDuring manufacturing, we use AI algorithms to precisely match each individual hinge with its best-fit housing to ensure perfect alignment, and a confocal laser progressively scans the topology of every single unit and 3D prints up to 25 micro layers of a custom photopolymer to eliminate residual waviness,β
Their hinge is using the same tech, in addition to whatever other thngs they'd thrown in.
I won't quibble over semantics, thank you for providing a source!
So did they not test it?
They probably did, but could be that their production process is faulty and the problems only popped up during full production. Itβs more a QA problem than a design problem. Otherwise every phone would have had a broken screen by now.
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Ahhh, for the old days! When the phone was bolted to the wall in the hallway and had a 3ft/1m cord! Those things were capable of lasting for a generation without issue. They just weren't very portable. And long distance rates were a thing. And party lines.*
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