• Samsung debuts foldable 'Infinity Flex' phone display
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https://www.engadget.com/2018/11/07/samsung-foldable-phone-infinity-flex-display/
Oh boy a phone that's even harder to hold in one hand
is this "Flip Phone 2"?
wouldn't it be easier since you can fold it to make a smaller display?
weird flex but ok
Ignore the top one You can take solace in knowing that this one is harder to break, though; flexible screens have to be pastic, so they won't shatter.
I was just going to comment that.
It s cool but what pratical advantage
ok now it needs to have curved display and be be bendable
Mechanical stresses ahoy, not only is the display going to wear down from folding but you've got the phone hinges which are going to be critical failure points allowing water/dust ingress not to mention potential impact on the boards if its dropped. Even if case manufacturers somehow got around the design, they couldn't provide proper bumpers on the folding edge/corners without compromising the folding ability. Its a novelty, its not an every day driver let alone a even half-way decent rugged phone.
Honestly find the folded version most exciting. Smaller, thicker phones need to make a comeback.
wake me up when we get thin, foldable tablets
Would laugh my ass off if it still had a headphone jack but an iPhone still can't manage to have one.
It's still way cool that technology got to a point where this is possible, though. Give it a few iterations and maybe all those issues will be handled.
I guess you could unfold it and turn it into a tablet sized device if you wanted (2 devices in 1). It might be more "bend resistant" as well but that's all I can think of.
for people like me who have massive hands and browse the internet on them.
an actual bendable phone would be neat less of a problem for sitting on it in ur ass pockets
No I understand that, but the problem is that plastic deforms plastically so although it has some elastic deformation tolerance (being able to fold with little initial wrinkle), if it's dropped or forced upon a different axis than its main deformation axis, it'll plastically deform thus you'll have a bunch of dents/folds/bumps over time.
when are we going to get phones with ferrofluid structures so when you turn the screen off it goes limp and foldy
I wouldn't mind a somewhat floppy phone. It would be drop proof presumably and it wouldn't be annoying when you lean forward with it in the wrong spot in your pocket.
I'm a fan of the concept. Having more screen real estate with a flip for things like games would be cool. Now if only there were good mobile games outside of Downwell...
Can you just stick a bendy screen inside a rigid phone so we now have a rigid phone with a screen that does no shatter?
the screen covering material in the bendy phone scratches very easily, thatch why the screen folds on the inside with a separate glass screen on the outside when folded.
afaik bigger screen that still fits in your pocket (in theory).
Be good just to sit on the toilet and flop ya phone ou.... I was just on Youtube, I swear.
There's obviously going to be a lot of problems zzz but it's fucking cool that we have something like this now. Imagine what phones will be like in 5 years time.
The tech allows for rollable screens, so I just want my scroll-like tablet that opens up into a large screen like in these concept images. https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/89/64e9bee9-18b5-4d6a-b025-e4af603ef4cf/Samsung-rollable-display-e1514895806948.jpg https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/89/5a05f8f7-6025-47e0-b7e3-a7ce6c883ede/thumbnail_30701.jpg https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/89/fe3dca95-6bbf-4e0d-a82f-540f2a349e79/VS2.jpg https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/89/d9468840-416d-45aa-9f6b-5e323ca4f50d/rollable-phone-00.jpg
in 10 years: brain phones, use your mind to invoke the phone in your vision in 20 years: metaphysical phones that exist in the quantum realm in 30 years: we are in the phones now
Novelty product.
It's like a tech demo at this point. I'd believe they will reach the form factor of current phones within 2-3 years.
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