If you look at Google's Android phone market share (currently 1.1% according to https://www.appbrain.com/stats/top-manufacturers), and consider that the foldable version is probably the least popular model in this not-really-popular phone family, it becomes understandable that they're not investing heavily into R&D for it...
Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era
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Re: Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era
#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am a tablet user but crease is a non starter. However I know people who like foldables in different ways, like financial stuff, they don't care
For most, if not all users, the crease is not something one notices during regular use. You just forget it's there when you look at content. That said, with the Pixel's enormous crease you feel it if you touch the middle of the screen.
Depends on your use. If you draw or want high quality display with no weird reflections from your tablet then it's a non starter.
Re: Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era
#153> A great foldable with IP68 and a reliable triple camera, trapped in a shape everyone else seems to be moving on from. I never even considered buying a foldable phone, and they're already moving on from that shape.
They aren't moving on from foldable, they are moving on from the shape to a shorter and fatter shaped foldable.
While the form factor does seem nicer for the pocket, and perhaps better when using the cover screen, I fear I would miss the screen real estate of the tall foldable.
Not having to rotate the phone to view either portrait or landscape content is more convenient than I thought.
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#154Who is paying $1900 for not an iPhone? $1900? Wow wth
I think a lot of people pay their phones off with a contract over several years.
Signing up for a new phone contract, you start looking at a $600 phone. Thats $25 a month plus $15 for your calls and data, so $40 a month. Then you see the next phone next to it thats only $1200, it's so much better, and you're only paying $65 a month for it.
And then they flash this one in front of you, only $67 a month (just ignore the fact it's now over 3 years instead of 2)! 5 minutes later, you are in.
Re: Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era
#155I just don't see why you would spend more than double (almost 2K USD!) for the fold phones though. I have large screens in my home to watch high quality video content. I do like the Pixel Pro XL series with 6.8" screens though, but they are a lot cheaper.
While they are more expensive, if price is the only concern, you could get last year's Z Fold 7 for a price similar to the launch price of an iPhone 17 Pro Max.
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#156I have zero interest in folding phones and only read to kill time while eating, but this review is incredibly irritating. "This isn't exactly like another phone, with a bunch of subjective design differences, therefore it's dated and bad!" I hate this way of thinking so much. Products should be different. There should be small phones and large phones, thin phones and thick phones, rather than scoring them all against…
I didn't read the paywalled article, but this phone looks exactly like the Pixel 9 Pro Fold I used to own.
And that is to say that it looks dated and ugly, particularly compared to Samsung's square phones.
Google's design comes with larger bezels, more weight and thickness, and a bigger crease.
The rounded corners are subjective I guess.
Re: Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era
#157Foldable phones still feel like a solution in search of a problem to me. Like, what is the actual usecase?
Re: Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era
#158Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Global foldable smartphone shipments have grown from roughly 2.8 million units in 2020 to an anticipated 20–25 million units in 2026. Foldables will slowly become the standard phones, probably over a decade or so.
I doubt that very much. They will always be a lot more expansive than even large (~6.8") single screen devices. I don't see how folds will ever be easier/cheaper to produce than single screen displays.
The same way that smart phones aren’t easier nor cheaper to produce than feature phones. Once the technology and features get good, people’s default expectations shift.
I’ve not been sold on flip phones so far, but the latest “passport” style has made me curious.
Re: Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era
#159I 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.
Samsung is testing the water with their new passport-size fold phone. Looklike enough people demanded for smaller size phone. Granted it is still considerably bigger than ip13mini, but it's step in right diretion
There were suggestions that they went this way as the intel suggested Apple might release one soon with a similar form factor.
Re: Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era
#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m hoping that with a supply of the passport-sized front screens it might become a new form factor for non-folding phones. Though again, ideally I’d like something Mini-sized or smaller.
There is a wave of 'blackberry-like' android phones coming soon (4:3 screen + qwerty keyboard) - Unihertz Titan 2, Clicks Communicator, Minimal Phone 2 to name a few.
I was ready to say that they were all too big, but looking at a comparison they’re surprisingly reasonable in size?
https://comparesizes.com/comparison/Unihertz-Titan-2-vs-Clic...
Not sure I’d want a physical keyboard, but it’s nice to have an option potentially.