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"Please do a bunch of work to support a folding phone model only a few people will be able to afford"
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It is a pain to carry an iPad and a phone if you are walking. You need either large pockets or a handbag. If it is warm then you don't want either,
those folding phones are permanently bulging and enormous. I feel like I'm the only person on earth sometimes who just wants the phone to be small so it's easy to carry and use one-handed. I want to live life when I'm out and about, the phone I have is the heaviest thing I am constantly carrying.
My pockets are not wide enough for a mini but would take a folding phone - the depth is much less of an issue.
I've gone all the way around and came back. The Samsung Fold was awesome and convenient. But carrying an ipad mini and a phone is not that big a deal. It's quite nice that the ipad mini does not have whatsapp or SMS plugged into it, so I can use it exclusively for reading books or playing music. The cost of the iPad Mini + my phone was like $600 and the folds - even the 6th gen and above - are super unreliable, so ri…
> But carrying an ipad mini and a phone is not that big a deal I did this way back when the first iPad mini was released, and it's not bad. But these days, the big iPhone is 7 inches to the iPad mini's 8 inches... the phone is big enough for most iPad mini use cases
These numbers don't correspond to the screen size though
> On the other side of the pond, Android foldable owners have spent seven years discovering which of their apps work and which ones don’t. Funny how this thing isn't even announced yet and the fanpeople are already glazing Apple over it :p I daily a Surface Duo 2 as my car-relegated phone, running Android 12 (which I kinda regret upgrading from 10) and loaded with offline maps and plenty of cached music, and it has n…
I think discussion here are missing that most people do not own a PC/laptop and if they do barely ever opens one, and not because they can't afford it, but it just didn't fit into their daily lives. This is obviously entirely different from the HN crowd. And in that case, a folding phone is huge! Having played with one that my parent use, it's such an upgrade for reading/scrolling experience. When we all are spending…
I hardly use the thing closed, even for things I easily could.
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What's huge about it for someone who doesn't own a PC laptop? Every example I've seen or tried using a fold-able was just a regular smartphone with a screen that displayed apps that looked like the app doesn't fit on the phone very well. The few that did fit didn't seem to provide any real advantage. That and the fold-able users I know all run into reliability issues with screens breaking over time.
With my foldable, I find that I hardly use the full display and just use the main screen.
I think discussion here are missing that most people do not own a PC/laptop and if they do barely ever opens one, and not because they can't afford it, but it just didn't fit into their daily lives. This is obviously entirely different from the HN crowd. And in that case, a folding phone is huge! Having played with one that my parent use, it's such an upgrade for reading/scrolling experience. When we all are spending…
What's huge about it for someone who doesn't own a PC laptop? Every example I've seen or tried using a fold-able was just a regular smartphone with a screen that displayed apps that looked like the app doesn't fit on the phone very well. The few that did fit didn't seem to provide any real advantage. That and the fold-able users I know all run into reliability issues with screens breaking over time.
The screen is big enough for me that given it's always in my pocket it's far more convenient to grab my phone than getting up to grab my tablet or laptop.
Everyone I know over 70 would love something that works like a phone when folded but like a tablet unfolded -- big enough for text to be big, small enough to carry, and without fiddly interface -- and at a reasonable price for those anchored in 1980 prices. (If those under 17 got attached to foldables, it would be an enduring franchise.) For those of us in between, I'd love it if my foldable when unfolded were finall…
I'm still waiting for a large folding phone with no/minimal outer display and with all other features cost reduced for half the price of the flagship folding phones.