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I'll never understand why "thin" is still a standout feature of a phone when they add a fat ugly camera bump on it anyway. Why not make a thicker phone and the camera flush with the casing?
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I like to read comics and I’m too lazy to bring tablet with me. I am thinking about buying foldable. That said, not at this price point and with Pixels not known for their hardware quality. Maybe I’ll wait for when Apple inevitably does their foldable.
The inevitable Apple foldable will come with the inevitable Apple price. I'd say $2000.
I just don't understand who wants these foldable phones, especially at the $1799 price point. I guess a use case is wealthy frequent travelers who don't want a separate device with a larger screen to watch movies/videos on the go? Someone help me out here.
It's more than the price of a nice smartphone, and a nice tablet. An iPhone 14 and iPad Pro are gonna' run you $1,600, and be more useful in most cases. I mean, sure, you're not going to fit an iPad in your pocket, but do you really need to? And when it's out, it's more productive to have a separate tablet and phone, than just one device that's trying to do it all. Folding phones are a neat idea, and as a technical a…
It’s 1600 for iPad Pro alone in Europe.
> I mean, sure, you're not going to fit an iPad in your pocket, but do you really need to?
Yes.
> And when it's out, it's more productive to have a separate tablet and phone, than just one device that's trying to do it all.
Majority of people care about convenience, not productivity.
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My laptop budget is closer to $1400. And it is deferred until next year ha.
I just spent $400 on a Ryzen 5650, 32GB RAM and 1TB NVMe. The screen sucks compared to my work MacBook (most do) but it’s faster and has more cores
I fell for the Ryzen laptop hype and bought one around the time of the M1 that was supposed to be about as fast as the M1. In practice it started throttling pretty fast and the performance was way worse than the M1. Also, the battery life was ~3 hours under normal workloads on Linux (with most power optimizations done) and ~6-7 hours on Windows.
The price definitely can't be beat though. Even though a laptop with a 5650, 32GB RAM and 1TB SSD for $400 sounds really unbelievable? Those specs usually go for at least $1200. Do you have a link?
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If you use your phone an average of 5 hours a day for two years and then throw it in a junk drawer the hardware would cost less than 50cents per hour of use. I use my $800 iPhone about 30 minutes a day, keep it for 4 years, and spend about $1 per hour of use. I'd say the market is heavy cellphone users that use apps that benefit from the larger screen.
> If you use your phone an average of 5 hours a day for two years and then throw it in a junk drawer the hardware would cost less than 50cents per hour of use. I don't understand this type of justification. My fridge would cost around $65k for a 15 year lifetime at $0.50/hour. It just seems like a completely meaningless way to judge the value of something.
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> If you use your phone an average of 5 hours a day for two years and then throw it in a junk drawer the hardware would cost less than 50cents per hour of use. I don't understand this type of justification. My fridge would cost around $65k for a 15 year lifetime at $0.50/hour. It just seems like a completely meaningless way to judge the value of something.
"At the price of one coffee cup" is another thing that gets me. I brew at home and it's 10p for me, is that what you mean?
I'll never understand why "thin" is still a standout feature of a phone when they add a fat ugly camera bump on it anyway. Why not make a thicker phone and the camera flush with the casing?
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You'd pay double the price for double the fridge capacity (if doubling your capacity serves useful purpose for you) You'd pay double the price for double the screen size (if more screen size serves a useful purpose to you) It's really not that hard of a concept to grasp.
I would? I don't see how those have anything to do with the price. The newly announced Pixel Tablet screen is 4 times larger than the newly announced Pixel 7a, and they're the same price. Is the Pixel Tablet supposed to be $2k because the screen is 4x larger? I really don't know what either of you are talking about with these strange thoughts on pricing.
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Yes, I bought an iPhone 4 and then upgraded to iPhone 6 which had a larger screen. I had a 55' TV and I also bought an 85' TV. I had a 24' monitor. I also bought a 34' monitor Not a difficult concept to grasp
> I had a 55' TV and I also bought an 85' TV. > I had a 24' monitor. I also bought a 34' monitor So huge! I don't think I could even fit a 24' monitor in my house. How would you get it through a door?
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hi, I want these folding phones. Though I took advantage of the ridiculous trade in offers that Samsung usually promotes with. Everything is just nicer on the bigger screen: messaging, browsing, videos, gaming. And that screen is always in my pocket. Can't read the QR code menu at the restaurant? Here, look at my pocket tablet. The technology is still in an awkward phase but I think slab phones will be obsolete in 5…
I don't want to have to lug a tablet everywhere, like some fulltime scribe.