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Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era

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Post by bakies »

k8sToGo wrote: post #108
Archer6621 wrote: post #103

The crease makes it look cheap and fragile, like with many of the foldable phones. I'm curious what people need the huge screens for on phones? Is it mostly for watching videos?

When you open it, it becomes a tablet not a phone. And therein lays your answer.

Yep! Having just got the Pixel Fold 10. I've been wanting a tablet for casual browsing and video watching but I knew I wouldn't use it because it's not my phone. The apps data would be different logins are annoying. If I'm getting another device out I'll just get my laptop. This thing is great though. There can't be a more seamless transition. The multitasking is pretty good and with coding agents it's actually turned out fairly production to have two apps side by side.

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Post by phyrex »

macNchz wrote: post #200
harrouet wrote: post #104

I remain an irreductible fan of the one-hand theory, and therefore stick with an iPhone 13 mini. I might be late at the folding-phone revolution. Alas it seems we won't see any such phone that fits in a pant's pocket and that can be operated single-handedly. I am afraid that the 13 mini is the last of its kind. Yet many reports of people dropping their gigantic phones. Maybe that's a business model after all.

I broke my 12 Mini, replaced it with a 17, then went so far as to return the 17 and buy a used 13 Mini. It was totally annoying to me to not be able to operate the phone with one hand without feeling like I was about to drop it. I kept the 17 for most of the return window thinking I’d get used to it, but I just kept finding more situations where it bothered me. Battery life on the mini is not amazing, but a slim mags…

same here

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Post by some_random »

eahm wrote: post #133

I think everyone lost their damn mind, possibly during Covid. New iPhones used to be $199 and when they went to $299 the decision was seriously questionable. Now they cost like a used car, everyone buys $1000+ iPhones without batting an eye, insane. This one is $2000, I wouldn't get it if I had a billion on principle.

The only time iPhones were $199 was when they were subsidized by lock-in contracts, they were never actually that cheap.

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Post by bakies »

frollogaston wrote: post #79
shaklee3 wrote: post #75

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RCS is not terrible. Apple's implementation of RCS is terrible.

Android users still go on WhatsApp for group chats instead of using RCS. I'm in an RCS group chat with some Android users, and they're always missing messages even between each other. So no I don't buy it. Same with MMS, Google and other phonemakers always blamed Apple, but nobody actually wanted to use MMS even in a full Android group chat. Maybe RCS between Pixel phones is ok, because that's not the same thing, it…

Nope rcs is great, except when iPhones are involved. Sms and mms are only fallbacks and it's always iPhones that fallback. Rcs just says the other device is offline and wait

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Post by adamsb6 »

harrouet wrote: post #104

I remain an irreductible fan of the one-hand theory, and therefore stick with an iPhone 13 mini. I might be late at the folding-phone revolution. Alas it seems we won't see any such phone that fits in a pant's pocket and that can be operated single-handedly. I am afraid that the 13 mini is the last of its kind. Yet many reports of people dropping their gigantic phones. Maybe that's a business model after all.

Are you aware of the reachability gesture in iOS?

I’d probably still be on my 13 mini if this feature didn’t exist.

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Post by coldpie »

harrouet wrote: post #104

I remain an irreductible fan of the one-hand theory, and therefore stick with an iPhone 13 mini. I might be late at the folding-phone revolution. Alas it seems we won't see any such phone that fits in a pant's pocket and that can be operated single-handedly. I am afraid that the 13 mini is the last of its kind. Yet many reports of people dropping their gigantic phones. Maybe that's a business model after all.

> Alas it seems we won't see any such phone that fits in a pant's pocket and that can be operated single-handedly

Check out the Motorola Razr! I switched from an iPhone 13 Mini to the Razr last year and I'm a big fan. The outer display is 4"! It runs all applications and it's extremely usable one-handed. Some apps and websites are clearly not designed for a screen that small, but the vast majority work just fine. And it unfolds into a phablet for when you want/need an enormous screen. And it's Android so you can use Firefox. I'm much happier with it than I was with the iPhone.

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Post by rjh29 »

squeegeeninja wrote: post #162
princevegeta89 wrote: post #87

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Folding phones aren't going away; they're becoming more mainstream. The initial versions of folding phones that came out five or six years ago had issues and some aspects that weren't addressed. But we are literally in the sixth or seventh generation of folding phones, and Samsung has basically perfected them. If you think the durability is bad, think again, because they are very, very durable. I use a Z Fold 6, and…

I'm not sure you can engineer your way out of the fundamental problem: You have a lever with both arms converging into a fragile display fold. Sand and dust can't not be brutal on that.

Even the earliest folds have a brush in the hinge to kick out dust and sand. I can only imagine after 6 years they've worked out the kinks.

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Post by rjh29 »

jeroenhd wrote: post #197
fg137 wrote: post #190

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It's the Verge. They want you to think everyone is following the trend, when most of the world don't care about foldable phones at all.

I think there are plenty of people like me who would like to try one, but don't feel like spending multiple months of rent on the privilege of doing so. I'm holding off for the coming while with the current RAM prices keeping phones incredibly expensive, but in five or six years when my current phone goes EOL I hope to see affordable options.

Second hand zfold 4 was 600 quid when I bought it a few years ago. Hardly "multiple months of rent".
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