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Re: iPhone Duo

#191
post #161

Ugh; folding screens are so failure prone these things just exacerbate e-waste problems Would rather ditch my phone size thing and be able to pair a cellular Watch to iPad Mini size thing that also has "50% more screen" than iPhone Max Gen AI could take telemetry like GPS from Watch and recreate most adventures without need of all the pictures; I don't care if every little thing like a day hike is captured "for real"…

What an amazingly soulless way to think

Re: iPhone Duo

#192

After four years of watching the JerryRigEverything YouTube channel snap Google's foldable phones in half at the same spot along the antenna lines, I'm looking forward to seeing how well this holds up. Something this expensive should not be that fragile year after year.

new foldables are surprisingly strong along the spine. Not impossible to snap or damage but would support being accidentally sat on without it being catastrophic, for example.

Re: iPhone Duo

#193
I'm looking forward to doing code review on the go on a phone like this! Once a GrapheneOS-compatible brand copies it, that is.

Re: iPhone Duo

#194
I don't see the appeal of this or the Phone 18 for the matter. I have an (old) iPhone 15 Pro that just works so the upgrade just doesnt seem worth it.

Also I think it would be quite bulky to carry the Duo in a pocket all day long.

Re: iPhone Duo

#196
It felt very "un-Apple" when they called it a foldable phone _before_ revealing it.

The folding part is the thing the tech journalists say; done right, it shouldn't matter whether it's foldable or not.

Bigger screen, pencil support, nano-glass, etc. The foldable part is obvious, why say it?

Re: iPhone Duo

#197

Looking forward to reviews after a few months of use. So far all the foldables I've seen get destroyed quite fast.

> So far all the foldables I've seen get destroyed quite fast.

I doubt you did see any from the last few years.

Re: iPhone Duo

#198
post #153

I cannot believe that the central crease could disappear altogether! Suspiciously could not see reviews of it yet - usually bloggers like mkbhd get their hands on early, and they release the reviews moment the embargo is off, usually when live event is over. This time nothing.

It doesn't come out until October. There won't be anything to review until then.

Re: iPhone Duo

#199
post #174

Duo screen: 7.6" vs iPad mini: 8.3". Duo will support Apple Pencil later. I wonder if many people with iPhone+iPad combination can now replace it with one device.

I never trust the later with Apple. Too often have they failed to deliver. Why release this without the obvious benefit?

Re: iPhone Duo

#200
post #38

One thing I love about metric paper is the beauty of the simplicity: When you fold it, it maintains its ratio. This is because it is 1:1.41, aka 1:sqrt(2) When I saw that this new phone is 1:1.4, I instantly appreciated why it is that way. Metric paper wins again!

I see a possible future where we have ultra thin devices that can be successively unfolded to larger formats based on this ratio, making size-based product variety obsolete. After that we get screen origami.
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