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Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era
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#172I 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.
Look up the figures for inflation, your money is worth a fraction of what it was before COVID, then we have component shortages on top of that.
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#173I cannot understand how people can tolerate the crease. It's so visible on every foldable. And it's simply not acceptable to my eyes.
Really depends on what you do with the open phone. I can understand it being a huge distraction when watching video with the seam right in the middle. EBook reading? Apps in tablet interface mode? Might as well complain that using two monitors on your desktop is unusable because of the bezels. Doesn't matter in practice.
> EBook reading?
> Might as well complain that using two monitors on your desktop is unusable because of the bezels.
There's a pretty important difference there - monitors don't draw content on the bezels.
If what you're doing is reading an ebook, what advantage is a folding phone supposed to have over a non-folding phone? Reading isn't an activity where you can use more than a small part of the screen at once.
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#174The 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?
I read PDFs on my foldable phone.
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#175I drop my phone a lot, I have a great case for it so not a scratch after 6 years. I am interested in getting the foldable but apparently the cases don't protect the hinge or let dirt get in? Anyone have experience with this? Maybe I'm not the right audience, too clumsy
The Google foldable seems to be the only one with dust and water protection. It has an IP68 rating.
Which imo puts it above every other foldable.
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#176Earlier quoted context omitted.
Really depends on what you do with the open phone. I can understand it being a huge distraction when watching video with the seam right in the middle. EBook reading? Apps in tablet interface mode? Might as well complain that using two monitors on your desktop is unusable because of the bezels. Doesn't matter in practice.
> EBook reading? > Might as well complain that using two monitors on your desktop is unusable because of the bezels. There's a pretty important difference there - monitors don't draw content on the bezels. If what you're doing is reading an ebook, what advantage is a folding phone supposed to have over a non-folding phone? Reading isn't an activity where you can use more than a small part of the screen at once.
Show multiple pages at once. Makes it easier to go back and forth. It's actually a huge QOL improvement such that I can't stand reading books on a normal phone anymore.
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#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Not sure if all, but some (Clicks i am sure) will offer touch-sensitive keyboards where you can swipe over keyboard to apply gestures as if was the screen itself, so its not such a dead space if you are not typing.
You can still navigate by interacting with the lower half.
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#178Earlier quoted context omitted.
Huawei has their HarmonyOS but still releases Android phones too for international markets - but these can't use Google Services, so they have their own services. If it's possible to somehow install google services I have no idea. Personally I would perhaps like to use or at least try Pixel's software (I've had some Google-software phones years ago, a Nexus I think? Maybe even some Pixel. And they were fine), but not…
Google software has changed - a lot. It used to be very strong. Not today.
This is another good point. When the pixel first came out its camera app was industry-leading. I don’t think that is true anymore.
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#179Something is broken on the site. I scroll a bit and then a nag screen locks further reading.
Thats deliberate, heres the archive link: https://archive.ph/3ql6b
Re: Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era
#180I 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 original iPhone cost $500 and adjusting for inflation that is about $800 today. I don't remember phones costing $300 since before the smart phone era. Even Walkman phones cost $500 in the early 2000's.
800$ for a total novel technology vs 1800$ for a small iteration of the technology. I don't think so many people in the world can afford that.