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"Revenue from the mobile business reportedly grew by 22% and operating profit went up by 3% year-over-year."> Samsung is hoping the launch of its foldables will help level out these losses Very serious question: Who is asking for foldable phones? Who is saying, "You know what's missing from my phone? More moving parts! A huge hinge for crumbs to get stuck in! I just can't enjoy this app unless it's in a square form factor and a crease in the center!"
Flip phones seem like a nice concept - small pocket size, notification display, full size. But current implementations are like overpriced beta implementations - once they polish the concept I can see myself getting one.
All the Samsung foldables gen 3 and above are mature tech, no longer in beta but yeah, they are way to expensive
I remember walking on the sidewalk in one of the busiest city sections of downtown Gangnam when I was stopped by a guard. On the street, other guards were stopping traffic. Mind you, this street is as busy as any in Manhattan. Then a secret gate opened as a $400k+ Mercedes Maybach slowly backed out. The entire block of pedestrians and traffic was inconvenienced for 10 minutes for this ordeal. I was told by my Korean…
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Personally, I'd just open my laptop or plug it into the desktop monitor. Like even a giant iPad with a keyboard isn't productive for me. I just use my phone to check messages, read the news, etc. If I want to do something useful, I just sit down at the ultrawide and use a real OS with like four times the memory. I played with those folding phones at the store last week and thought to myself "nah, just more shit to br…
Tell me you're a fellow boomer without using the word. These kids today...might not even have a full computer at home. It is possible that they only use one at school/work. So the majority of the compute time is on a device. This is something I have to remind myself of a lot more often. The mobile first concept is real for a reason. So, just having an ultrawide and a system with an OS is pretty much on the lines of a…
How awful. Do they play games, do work and watch TV on their phone?
Every one repeats this same headline in the same way, and it kind of annoys me. It strongly implies that profits are now 0.05 x 0.05 of what they were, but it's really just one 0.05. They were very profitable, and now they are not, but it's not a continuing decline from last quarter.
Just tell me that last year profits were 11B, and now they're 0.5B.
And here it is: https://www.statista.com/statistics/237093/samsungs-operatin...
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I don't get it. You need glasses anyway for everything else. I've started using glasses and I'm not interested at all in getting a foldable. What I would like is something like an Ubuntu phone. And better batteries.
> I don't get it. You need glasses anyway for everything else. When you get older, you often start needing two pairs of glasses (or bifocals). One for things far away (the glasses you drive with) and one for things much closer (computer, phone, etc...).
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Tell me you're a fellow boomer without using the word. These kids today...might not even have a full computer at home. It is possible that they only use one at school/work. So the majority of the compute time is on a device. This is something I have to remind myself of a lot more often. The mobile first concept is real for a reason. So, just having an ultrawide and a system with an OS is pretty much on the lines of a…
>might not even have a full computer at home How awful. Do they play games, do work and watch TV on their phone?
My old phone was actually still working okay but it became unusable as day to day phone due to lack of updates from Samsung. Also, the idea of locking myself into the Samsung ecosystem never appealed to me. I never really used Samsung-specific apps beyond Camera and Gallery.
We're at the point already when a mid-range phone has more than good enough hardware specs. Paying $1,000 for a phone or purchasing a new phone every year or two makes no sense to me.
> Samsung is hoping the launch of its foldables will help level out these losses Very serious question: Who is asking for foldable phones? Who is saying, "You know what's missing from my phone? More moving parts! A huge hinge for crumbs to get stuck in! I just can't enjoy this app unless it's in a square form factor and a crease in the center!"
I like small phones. I dont want to have something larger that 5.5 inches in my pocket. Five years ago I bought a Sony xperia zx1 compact, due to its form factor. I've been looking for a new phone for about a year, but all of them are too big or under powered for my liking. To me, the alternative seems to be foldable phones. I'll probably buy a Motorola razr 40 in the coming weeks. Also, an iPhone is not a option.
> Samsung is hoping the launch of its foldables will help level out these losses Very serious question: Who is asking for foldable phones? Who is saying, "You know what's missing from my phone? More moving parts! A huge hinge for crumbs to get stuck in! I just can't enjoy this app unless it's in a square form factor and a crease in the center!"
I have a pixel fold and it's actually just really nice to have a big screen to flip open sometimes. It's especially useful for a site that doesn't have great mobile scaling. The price, weight and fragility need more iterations but it's a neat toy. I'm not sure it's for everyone but not everyone wants or needs a stylus either.
My dental hygienist whipped out a foldable phone last week to show me a picture of her granddaughter. First time I’ve seen one in the wild. There was a very distinct thick dark line/crease down the middle of the picture… it was all I could look at.