like all folding phones it is just too expensive for me to justify.
Yeah, you can almost buy two phones for that price. There you go, wireless foldable
I can buy at least my 3 last phones with this price
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
#182> trapped in a shape everyone else seems to be moving on from. Really not sure if we were ever there. Foldable phones still feel like a novelty that is expensive and fragile, among other tradeoffs. Also moving on to what, exactly? The regular slate form factor is what people buy, and have been for years at this point.
This article is extremely poorly written and has the assumption we all very deep in folding phone lore and can read the writers mind. I think there's some new folding phone aspect ratio ("passport sized"?) that's more popular but the article never really explains which one they're talking about. Don't think it means moving away from folding in general.
Dunno which country they mean, but my passport is quite big. I would never buy such a behemoth phone. But maybe that's just me, always sticking with the smallest (flagships) available... I also never bought a tablet, so the foldable brings something in which I was never interested.
Re: Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era
#183I 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'm a fan of the iPhone Mini as well. It turns out though, I'm a bigger fan of USB-C.
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#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
When you open it, it becomes a tablet not a phone. And therein lays your answer.
That might explain my naivety here, I've never really gotten into using tablets for anything.
And I've never gotten into using my phone for anything outside of calls messages and navigation. The web is the worst on tiny vertical screens.
Re: Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era
#185Earlier quoted context omitted.
This article is extremely poorly written and has the assumption we all very deep in folding phone lore and can read the writers mind. I think there's some new folding phone aspect ratio ("passport sized"?) that's more popular but the article never really explains which one they're talking about. Don't think it means moving away from folding in general.
Dunno which country they mean, but my passport is quite big. I would never buy such a behemoth phone. But maybe that's just me, always sticking with the smallest (flagships) available... I also never bought a tablet, so the foldable brings something in which I was never interested.
Passport sizes are standardized and AFAIK every issuer complies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_7810
Re: Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era
#186I 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'm a fan of the iPhone Mini as well. It turns out though, I'm a bigger fan of USB-C.
You don't have to choose one over the other
Re: Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era
#187Pixel 11 is almost exactly like Pixel 10.
Re: Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era
#188With Graphene and Termux, I use my Fold 10 as a cyberdeck with a foldable BT keyboard. It’s amazing how focused that experience can be. More portable than a MacBook Air. I didn’t look at it as a phone getting bigger, but a laptop getting smaller.
Re: Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era
#189> trapped in a shape everyone else seems to be moving on from. Really not sure if we were ever there. Foldable phones still feel like a novelty that is expensive and fragile, among other tradeoffs. Also moving on to what, exactly? The regular slate form factor is what people buy, and have been for years at this point.
> Foldable phones still feel like a novelty that is expensive and fragile, among other tradeoffs.
I've had a Moto Razr Pro for three years now. No signs of wearing out and it's taken quite a bit of abuse. The only tradeoff is probably water resistance and the crease in the screen (which you get used to but is a trade-off). The positive: same size a a wallet when folded, outer screen makes checking notifications fast, and the outer screen lets you use the outer camera for selfies and video recording. I'll probably get another one when the battery dwindles away.
Re: Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era
#190> trapped in a shape everyone else seems to be moving on from. Really not sure if we were ever there. Foldable phones still feel like a novelty that is expensive and fragile, among other tradeoffs. Also moving on to what, exactly? The regular slate form factor is what people buy, and have been for years at this point.
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.