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Apple's next model will be a super unfolding one. Then some junior exec will let slip, "wait, it's a tablet". Then some senior exec will say, this could be good. We'll call the phone Model XV-19 and we'll call the tablet Model XT-20 and sell two streams with only one product!". Oh, Apple...what have you wrought, you evilly clever capitalists you.
I just want a phone that I can comfortably reach all points on with one thumb without having to juggle it about.
So when foldables started getting attention i was hoping theyβd make smaller phones that unfolded to have average sized screens.
Instead we got average sized phones that unfold in to a tablet. Even the vertical folding ones are too wide.
Drives me crazy how small phones died because "not enough demand" but a fragile gimmicky $2000 folding phone is perfectly commercially viable
Certainly has not bern a shortage of demand for the duo, people have been losing their minds over the thing
Call me crazy but I miss 16:9 5"/5.5" standard smartphones(aka pre 2018) made it possible to comfortably 1-hand. Then they had to switch to doom-scroll long ratio sizes.
Moto razr and I believe there's a samsung one which does just that
Of all the foldables, I liked moto's implementation the best. I don't want them to fold out to a larger screen. I want them to fold into a smaller form.
You want small? There you go: https://gadgetbond.com/bluefox-nx1-4-inch-compact-android-15-smartphone/
But yeah, itβs a shame there isnβt really a market with competition. Basically all serious phones are already too big for my taste. I have an iPhone 13 Mini and that is already slightly too big and I couldnβt even replace that with a similar sized one if I wanted to.
The Unihertz Titan 2 Elite is surprisingly small. The Minimal Phone 2 might be as well. And they have physical keyboards β yay.
sadly, no 5G on these phones
Comfortably reach all points with one thumb? Would that not be really small? For me that would be like 1/2 the size of a normal phone when I don't actually hold it but just having it lay on my hand (aka high drop risk). When I actually hold it like usual I can reach, with that is thumb, maybe 1/4th?
I have seen one of these, folds lengthways into more of a square shape. No idea what the model is though.
Z flip series from samsung. Crazy expensive though, I don't know if there are any reasonable alternatives
Motorola's Razr is probably 300-400 less. But Ive never owned any of them
The problem with all of those types is that theyβre still too wide to reach across with a firm grip.
I love the clamshell form factor, but it should be two screens, not one delicate one stretched such that it will always show a crease and will fail after a year...
So, the first one I had (1st gen DS) fell of a table on the hinge and broke. I eventually got a new case from China and got it working. Second one, 3DS XL, I was playing around with a katana and struck my leg, but I had a 3DS in a baggy pocket so I hit that instead, right on the hinge. It survived though, just has a small battle scar now.
I took this as a sign to not use foldable electronics.
Edit: Now that I think about it... My GBA SP didn't get any of its hinges hurt while in my possession... so 2/3 I suppose.
Iβve owned GBA, NDS, 3DS, and my brother had the DS Lite. Every Gen 1 DS Iβve seen has had its hinge break eventually. All the others on this list seem more durable. My GBA in particular went through some rough spots.
But yeah, adding moving parts is always going to add more points of failure.
Laptops work pretty well in that regard. Sure, I saw a few with broken hinges over the years, but saying that hinges don't work is overblown IMO.
(And I say this as an owner of a 1st gen DS with broken hinge. That was probably a design error.)
Yeah, man. Look at how well-protected those screens are when you flip it closed! I don't care what version of Gorilla Glass+++ you have, no one's throwing a smartphone in a backpack or laptop bag without good screen protection...
Folding up like that is potentially very robust if it's done right, keeps your screen safe. Personally I'd also go for a screen+keyboard combo (wow I just invented the laptop). A thin keyboard that doubles up as a screen protector, that should be a thing
We're like 10+ years past the point where new smartphone features were worth something. Now we're back to buying new phones because the last one finally died, not to upgrade.
Some Chinese phones are interesting. I particularly like the ones with lofic camera sensors, or crazy attachable lens modules, but there are all sorts of niche devices.
What made them boring is the homogeneity. Like aliens designed them, have no idea what an actual human would want, but know they have to build one bland universal thing for everyone.
I wish chinese phones were easy to unlock and flash with custom roms. Sadly you need to install a closed source windows based app with root permissions to unlock most of them if even possible at all.
Apple iPhone duo != all foldable phones.
There's more out there, folks.
This comic apparently comes out when the first foldable smartphone comes out, which have the similar issue.
Impossible. Apple just came out with it. Others couldn't have copied Apple that fast. Stop lying.
I don't think I really get foldables. Instead of having a phone and a tablet, you can have one device that does a shit job of being either (the outer screen is usually a weird aspect ratio and not optimised for one handed use, and the inner screen is quite small as tablets go), but it also costs the same as just getting both. Oh and they're also very fragile.
Man, I love the update to this classic.