It sucks. I know its not for everyone and for sure its gonna cost €€€€.
The foldable phone are fine, yet expensive and not so widely used.I recently bought a flip folder for under $600.
And who asked for it? They very well know that nobody will buy that.
Just get a tablet at this point.
Considering everyone I know with a folding phone has had a fault with the folding part of it - I don’t think its the best idea from a durability standpoint to add yet another folding part.
If one screen or fold point breaks, you’re now left with two unusable (but perfectly functioning) screens. Seems like an expensive gimmick to me.
Then they can replace more devices. Capitalism at work
Mine grew a visible line at the foldy bit that you can see at an angle.
I like the phone though, just know what you’re getting into.
PhabletPhoneTabletWhy 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?
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!
This is going to be like shaving razors, isn’t it? How soon before quad-fold phones?
What about 6 minute abs?
6 little Samsungs twirling on a branch
Eating lots of iPhones on my uncles ranch
You know that old children’s tale from the sea
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
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
it is a very cool technical achievement, but the user experience leaves a lot to be desired with them. most people don’t think about comparing. which is the only way i can imagine samsung getting as big as they have.
Statement with no substance. What do you desire that’s not there?
Aside from the screen being softer and easier to scratch, name a practical difference between this and another 10" Android tablet…
If a 10" tablet meets your desires, and your desire to fold it and put it in your pocket, what’s left?
well that is part of the user experience. the main thing that annoys me though is that the ui tends to go one of two ways for these devices; either it’s super-custom to the point that all application developers have to do extra work to be usable on it, or there’s too little customisation, which again means apps are not properly usable without extra work. i’ve not seen a folding device that “just works” yet.
Whose brilliant idea was it to demo this with a wallpaper that looks like a shitty diagonal screen fold?
thats not the wallpaper… someone just had nails.
It’s to make a subtle “Z”
Commitment: 10/10
Execution: 0/10😲 Zorro is real!
You had me and then you lost me.
Samsung’s Most Versatile AI Phone, Powered by the Largest Screen
How is screen?
Why are you confuse? Battery will last a day? Maybe half of day. Screen? What about three folded screens? The power is immense.
I’d love to see a Japanese fan style phone 🪭 Maybe it folds up into a reusable straw?
Not that I’d ever buy it, but I’m looking forward to the price tag so I can have a good laugh.
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?
It’s comments like this that make me worried about literacy rates and reading comprehension.
I want to replace my Pixel with a cutting edge phone that is user friendly, repairable, highly private, has all the features I like, and whose company is owned by its workers and not evil.
That phone doesn’t exist.
So now we talk priorities. With Google looking to close down android, I want something more open than stock android. My options are very limited. Graphene only works on the pixel line and not even the newest pixels, which are very underwhelming, so that’s not a great fit. LineageOS doesn’t seem to support any new phones albeit I didn’t cross reference every phone. The nothing phone, and every other competitor, seems lackluster as well.
So I’ve resigned to settling for any phone that’s cutting edge. If this is going to hopefully be my last mega evil corpo phone, I’ve been flirting with going with multiple screens because I doubt in 3 years there will be a non-corpo folding phone option if the normal slabs are still struggling. Samsung only “comes to mind”, and this might surprise or confound you, because we’re commenting on a thread about a Samsung phone.
If anyone has better recommendations for a last corpo phone out now or on the horizon, I’m all ears. And if someone wants to try and convince me there’s a great phone out there that can run a non-stock OS and still be a largely enjoyable experience I’m also ready to be wow’ed. But I’ve looked around a bit and failed to find anything.
Graphene now supports the newest pixel just so you know, Google held up the update that they needed to support it for a couple of months, but it’s out at last.
That’s great to hear! Google is a PoS for doing that.
It’s possible to clarify your position without first insulting the person you’re replying to, fyi
They could have also reread my original message. They could have also commented something meaningful even with the wrong initial reading. They could have asked for clarification, additional context, or anything else useful.
Instead their comment was… Idk how I would describe it. An attempt to insult? An unhelpful observation?
Its the opposite of being an ally, of helping people break from their chains, to misread their position and then write something snarky. Idk, I think people who make online spaces exhausting or worse deserve a few more insults in their life. Especially if they’re not being helpful.
There’s always Fairphone and Shiftphone if you’re living in the EU. Not cutting edge, but should be more than good enough for most people. (Oh, and my Fairphone 5 is honestly built like a tank.)
So I’ve resigned to settling for any phone that’s cutting edge.
If you drop the “cutting edge” condition instead, you could grab a Fairphone, which ticks all the other checkboxes.
Unless you game on your phone, you won’t notice a thing between modern high end and low end phones as long as they put enough RAM in.
Samsung is the opposite of everything you mentioned besides cutting edge.
Maybe try a phone that isn’t trash as soon as the battery dies. Something repairable.
I mean I’d love to buddy. When someone releases a phone with all the modern features I want and the best processor and a repairable battery (or any other of the consumer friendly practices we all want) I’ll buy it. But don’t act like I’m choosing to not get the ideal phone when it doesn’t exist. It’s compromises everywhere.
all the modern features I want
What are those? Because the difference between midrange and top of the line has been shrinking from year to year.
the best processor
What do you do with your phone that needs the best processor? Maybe you have some special use case, but the vast majority of people don’t need the best processor - often that’s a case of chasing the shiny new thing.
Sticking with my pixel 3a xl running ubuntu touch/waydroid for a while it seems.
*foldable tablet that can also make calls
Phones have been tablets, well phablets, for nearly a decade now.
Wow, haven’t seen anyone use ‘phablet’ for years!
Because phones now are bigger than what we called phablets 12-13 years ago lol
Galaxy Note II (2012): 5,5 inches Pixel 3a (2019): 5,6 inches
Exactly! :)
My first tablet had a 7" screen. Huawei Mate 70 Air is 7"
What else is 7"? 😏
That’s absolutely phabulous!
