Somebody please make a foldable vr.
Like, a foldable VR headset? Wouldn't that be Google Cardboard or similar?
Samsung’s Foldable Phone Is the $1,980 Galaxy Fold
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4) do the two screens wear uniformly? 5) what effect does putting a hinge in the center of the device have on the thermal capacity of the unit (thermal capacity is almost more important for performace than ram on a modern mobile computer architectures) 6) what are the long term ramifications of splitting the battery cell into two halves. It must be less capacity due to the extra packaging and safety overhead. I could…
There could be some benefits. I wouldn't be surprised if separating the battery in 2 actually helped with some of the thermal characteristics and reduced battery aging
I hope for Samsung's sake that there isn't some freak failure mode with the folding mechanism that makes it more likely for the battery to explode
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#193Does anyone know why both the Samsung and the other announced foldable phone have huge bezels on the OUTSIDE screen? That's just a regular non-foldable screen, why is it not edge-to-edge?
Likely cost savings, also its the auxillary screen. They likely wanted it to be useable with one hand and more for texting and email when on the go.
The star of the show was the inside screen with nearly no bezel even less than the tab s5e or iPad Pro except for the camera cutout in the top corner.
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#194Anyone know if the S10 or Fold will support Linux on Dex?
I'm glad someone mentioned this, or had a question about this, since it's the one thing I would really want on a fully convertible device. Currently the s9 and s9+ have open betas for Linux on dex, and it works on note 9 and tab s4. I am pretty optimistic that the fold will support it. But seriously, think about how great this would be: phone that could turn into a tablet when you want (say, to read or consume media,…
it 100% should support Linux on DeX and later this year Google should be officially launching Android Studio for all AOSP devices so you can develop apps for your Galaxy Fold right on your Galaxy Fold.
What a beautiful time we live in.
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#195Samsung's answer to a $1,000 phone is a $2,000 phone? Bold.
Considering the first iPhone was $600, $728 in today's money, and did basically nothing. I don't see how $1000 is completely unreasonable. Video games still cost exactly the same(without inflation), with 100x the budget, as they did 40 years ago, and people still bitch. People love blowing things out of proportion.
considering the iPhone X didn't have a single standout feature over the smartphone market it's reasonable for people to criticise the price of $1000, even apple realized that's not a viable strategy and released the XR at $750 as to avoid losing all of their customers with those exuberant prices offering little more than camera upgrades and meaningless changes avg consumers can't notice.
the avg person will tell you they don't know why the X is better it just looks more futuristic and that's why apple sells it for $1000.
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This is a user interface decision, not a programming decision. Allowing simultaneous viewing of arbitrarily many apps may not be a problem technically, but it would make the system more complex to use, with more possible interpretations of actions. It's a tradeoff.
Next year Samsung will announce a new phone with FOUR apps that can be open at once! Or Apple will do it for them.
they announced that with the Note 4 actually since that phone supported Facebook messenger style floating windows for as many apps as you wanted.
Android nougat added that to the AOSP source so any android phone can open up to 8 apps at once in floating windows. This is not new tech. The 3 way app view is just a tiling window manager managing it in a weird way it's not a real restriction
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#197Earlier quoted context omitted.
Considering the first iPhone was $600, $728 in today's money, and did basically nothing. I don't see how $1000 is completely unreasonable. Video games still cost exactly the same(without inflation), with 100x the budget, as they did 40 years ago, and people still bitch. People love blowing things out of proportion.
considering the iPhone X didn't have a single standout feature over the smartphone market it's reasonable for people to criticise the price of $1000, even apple realized that's not a viable strategy and released the XR at $750 as to avoid losing all of their customers with those exuberant prices offering little more than camera upgrades and meaningless changes avg consumers can't notice. the avg person will tell you…
Well, X was lightyears better than my aging 6s. Is there a major leap year to year to justify the cost? Of course not. Is everyone upgrading year to year? Of course not. I'm not trying to justify a $1000 phone, but Apple hardware has always been more expensive than the sum of its parts.
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#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm glad someone mentioned this, or had a question about this, since it's the one thing I would really want on a fully convertible device. Currently the s9 and s9+ have open betas for Linux on dex, and it works on note 9 and tab s4. I am pretty optimistic that the fold will support it. But seriously, think about how great this would be: phone that could turn into a tablet when you want (say, to read or consume media,…
it 100% should support Linux on DeX and later this year Google should be officially launching Android Studio for all AOSP devices so you can develop apps for your Galaxy Fold right on your Galaxy Fold. What a beautiful time we live in.
I had the Motorola Atrix when it first came out, my first Android phone. The experience with the laptop dock blew me away, and installing chroot and a terminal made it my daily laptop my freshman year of college. It was unfortunately never updated, and the system was just a bit too slow for me.
I'm really hoping the experience on this will be much better, and really get me the convergent experience I've wanted since then.
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#199Is that a huge notch in the upper right corner of the "tablet" screen?
That was my first reaction. And when they watch a video, it looks like the notch removes like 1cm of screen width. Which means that the videos gets scaled down a lot from what it could look like if they placed the notch differently. Watching videos, reading ebooks or browsing websites on a large screen is the first use I can think of for this screen.
the display is quite square, there will be black stripes bottom and top with most videos anyways.
For reading: notch fits the status bar, so no text should scroll behind it.
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it 100% should support Linux on DeX and later this year Google should be officially launching Android Studio for all AOSP devices so you can develop apps for your Galaxy Fold right on your Galaxy Fold. What a beautiful time we live in.
I had the Motorola Atrix when it first came out, my first Android phone. The experience with the laptop dock blew me away, and installing chroot and a terminal made it my daily laptop my freshman year of college. It was unfortunately never updated, and the system was just a bit too slow for me. I'm really hoping the experience on this will be much better, and really get me the convergent experience I've wanted since…
highly recommend you test out any of Samsung's recent phones or tablets. s8 and up all have Samsung DeX which polishes the Atrix idea to be usable daily.
Samsung is really attacking this from the business side (automatically load work desktop at work) and actually use it for development on the DeX team.
Its amazing that we can now write android apps on android itself.