| ▲ | Night_Thastus 4 days ago | |
I'll be totally honest, I do not get the appeal of foldable phones, at least with the designs I've seen so far. I guess you can unfold it to get a bigger 2-part screen? That's about it? I'd imagine that having it be un-foldable compromises the battery life, overall thickness (when folded) and weight to at least some extent - plus it costs way more. Is the additional screen real-estate really worth that? | ||
| ▲ | bluGill 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
If your eyes are young and you only use the phone alone. If you are older you need reading glasses for small screens. If you are showing a video to someone else you need a larger screen to see detail. of course not knowing you or your uses I can't say if any of this should matter to you. Still it seems like a nice idia not a fad. Only time will tell if people really want it once the fad is over. | ||
| ▲ | bhelkey 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
> it be un-foldable compromises the battery life, overall thickness (when folded) and weight to at least some extent Not as much as you would think. The Galaxy Fold 7 has a 6.5" outer screen (as compared to 6.3" screen in the iPhone 16 pro), is 8.9mm thick when folded (8.25mm in the iPhone 16 pro), has a 4400mAh battery (3,582 mAh in the iPhone 16 pro), and weighs 215g (199 grams for the iPhone 16 pro). > plus it costs way more The big downsides are price of $1999 launch price as compared to $999 launch price for the iphone 16 pro and durability. For durability, the foldable screens seem to be very soft making it easy to damage, say with a thumbnail. | ||
| ▲ | kace91 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
I could see it for older people. My mom and uncles all use extremely large font sizes, they’re barely able to see a whole text at once and they check pictures by traversing them while highly zoomed. | ||
| ▲ | pinkmuffinere 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
It doesn’t appeal to me either, but I’ve often heard “functionality, taken to an extreme, becomes fashion”. I think that might be what’s happening here. There are _some_ cases in which you might want a foldable phone. But even if you don’t need it, a (good) foldable phone becomes a status symbol. See also: expensive mechanical watches, sports cars, bottles that hold temperature for 24 hours | ||
| ▲ | bee_rider 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
I’d much rather have a screen that unfurls like a scroll. | ||
| ▲ | __s 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Checkout Huawei Mate XT: 2 folds It could be an SNL skit | ||