• Samsung unveils their folding phone: Galaxy Fold
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to use it more easily, handheld touchscreens are at their best as an input device when they're big enough for your hands to give you precision and accuracy
I doubt they ever intended this to be for standard consumers in the first place, so the price point isn't a huge shock. Likely for tech channels to have fun with and people who have more money than sense. It's like people who buy all top of the line shit asap even if it's basically a version 1.0, they're in it for clout
It was also different times back when those phones basically even existed, with 2-3" screens being the norm. Now imagine a thicker 5-6" phone with a retractable keyboard. Would make my laptop feel redundant and obsolete for most tasks
would be pretty hard to do with any glass being part of the display or the backside
Flip phones used to fuck up 1,001 ways and I remember people flicking open their Razr phones and things like the below used to happen. I saw my best friend spring hers open and it snapped and flew 20 feet . Hopefully in 15 years the design of fliphones has been strengthened https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/208031/2559d7e5-919b-4a78-982b-e633e4f83732/image.png
When the technology is optimized and cheaper to produce, I can see casual content consumption. But this isn't a casual device, it's a $2K power device, the most expensive phone I've seen (barring phones made literally to be expensive, like made of gold or that Lamborghini phone). So I see... Like no market for this. And cases look like they'd be a nightmare to make for this. It's a cute gimmick, but I can only call it a gimmick.
New technology is expensive and dumb. If everybody decided that the first iteration of a new technology was stupid and would never get better we wouldn't have mobile phones in the first place.
Razers were absolute garbage. Flimsy, fragile as all get-out. My little brother went through Razers like they were Kleenex. Meanwhile, my old Nokia flip-phone fell out of my coat pocket in my friend's drive-way (without me noticing it somehow) and I ran it over accidentally and other than the screens being cracked, it was still intact, would power on, and worked.
You can easily plug one in or get a keyboard case for most phones.
There's Bluetooth keyboards too, I've used a Filco Minila Air with my phone sometimes
I'd rather it be integrated? Why is there only one fucking form factors for phones?
I threw my Moto Razr 1 into a wall, and it stuck. It never broke, or had any issues. To this day, that is my most fondly remembered phone.
At least Samsung did it first, if it kinda takes Apple down a notch cause it shows they're stale. But you're an idiot if you buy this, in a few years theirs gonna be knockoffs for a fraction of the price.
this is the google glass of smartphones; a prototype likely meant for developer use
My enV Touch back in the day had a pretty good keyboard and I got fairly proficient at hammering out texts on it. I wouldn't say as fast as I type on a computer keyboard, but maybe... 65%?
Wait for reviews for this to come out before making such a bold statement. And that's besides the question of how a 2k USD smartphone is supposed to 'take apple down a notch', considering how the Xs and Xs Max haven't been selling as well as previous iPhones. Also, if you're gonna criticize Apple for being stale, maybe use better reasons than a trend that instantly got copied by everyone else and a point that's kind of rendered funny by the fact that the Note line of phones still exists.
Imagine taking dick pic with this... putting your dick between screens, like in photocopier except it feels more like making a hot dog except without the sauce...
Being able to type blind on my Nokia N97 in my front pocket was the best thing during class. The Nokia N97 probably has of the best physical keyboards on a phone in my opinion, it even has extra spacing, so its not like you are at a high risk to hit something else. On topic though, the price is bonkers but its also the first big flagship phone that actually uses a seamless folding screen. Just give it a year or two and the price on that will drop, might be copied by the chinese phones as well, there were already some other fold phones, although nothing that closes as tight as this one.
The note phones started as a goofy side project just like this. Maybe a few iterations later, it'll be more practical, and at a better price?
Why is everyone up in arms about this? It's fucking cool and the tech behind foldable phones is only going to become better and cheaper
Because its not cost viable. The mass market just wants one form factor. Any other one just isn't really that useful for people to break away.
No, its because everyone has to be the fucking iPhone.
I think if judging by the pictures the screen bends with it. Flip phones are much different from this.
This is one of those legendary “dan was boobies” tier posts
...Which is because that's what sells. Phone makers aren't ignoring what people are interested in buying, and then ignoring it to go copy Apple. Yes, they're also copying Apple, because people are buying Apple.
Except their not selling. Their sales have been stagnating as Samsung has actually held to older designs.
Look at phones designed for other country's markets, iirc a lot of Korean models have them.
I mean I would buy international if I had the money to spare to get it imported.
Samsung always pushing innovation, whether the phone is good or not. That imo is more important than the quality of the end product. I'll be picking up the S10+ but I definitely want to try this out.
It's extremely cool tech and just like all new tech it's not worth it in the beginning. If it costs Samsung a shitton to make it then it's going to cost you a shitton to buy it. I don't really see the issue.
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