I don't think I get foldable phones. When is the extra space necessary? I mean most of them turn from a somewhat 9:16 aspect ratio to 1:1. You don't earn anything in space to consume media content. The only real improvement might be for multitasking?

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pasc1878 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

You get more to see.

Maps are too narrow on phones.

Books also are easier to read.

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layer8 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The foldable iPhone will have an aspect ratio very close to 3:2 for the outer display (like the original iPhone) and of 1.41:1 (between 3:2 and 4:3) for the inner display (similar to an iPad).

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wat10000 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Multitasking would be huge. One reason I hate doing anything "real" on my phone is because I can't see more than one thing at a time.

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hbn 6 days ago | parent [-]

I mean you can see more at once but now your typing experience is worse. I have an iPad and it's by far my least productive device unless it's connected to a physical keyboard. Typing on a giant touchscreen is so much more tedious than my phone's screen.

	▲	wat10000 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		It's not perfect, but there are plenty of things I do where I'm not typing very much, but I am swapping back and forth between apps or web pages quite a bit.

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internet2000 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You can read more Hacker News comments per screen without having to scroll.

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paradox460 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Running two full size apps at once is pretty nice. Text conversation and website, things like that. Or copying and pasting credentials out of a password manager