Samsung still hasn’t given us a good reason to buy a foldable phone

I miss my Note 4.

Had lots of sensors, plastic enclosure, removable battery... Great phone, very robust, fast, did not need to be handled delicately.

Then they made the enclosures glass. Now I have to handle a phone delicately and with considerable care. It's slippery! Wants to slide and hit the floor!

Next move?

Get rid of the headphone jack!

After that?

No SD card.

After that?

No removable SIM.

Now, it folds?

None of this makes my life better. None of it improves the robustness and utility of the device.

I bet the first company to make a robust, plastic case phone with all the good features put back into the product will do well.

People want the utility and robustness.

Happy with the Flip 3. It is small in the pocket. I can check messages and new emails without unfolding. I can even do NFC payments while it's folded up.

Besides that, I can stand it on my desk with the screen towards me, which is very convenient when doing things on a computer and the phone simultaneously (like 2FA authentication).

Can't think of any downsides to a standard phone really.

I used a Z Fold 3 as my primary phone for a few months.

It dramatically changed my phone usage habits. The super slim front display is just slim enough to be annoying to use, so I'd find myself checking/acknowledging notifications without finding myself engaging and becoming distracted as frequently as I used to. I also found that when I was sitting around somewhere bored, I was much more likely to start reading an ebook than before, as the form factor is really fantastic for that. My reading habits have dropped back off now that I've returned to using an iPhone.

And Rainbo hasn't given us a reason to buy sliced bread. Some things are just obvious and, to those who refuse to use their own cognitive faculties, Samsung owes nothing. The producer is not on the hook for manufacturing demand.

The only thing holding me back is concerns about duribility and software updates.

Granted I haven't really looked into it in the past year or so, and I'm not planning on upgrading my current phone for at least one more year.