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New Samsung Origami phone. Each fold is a new dimension of value!
Fold your phone in to a paper plane to enter airplane mode. It won’t stop you from receiving calls, but it will look badass when your $2000 Samsung phone makes it several feet down the cul-de-sac
Damn, I misunderstood. I thought the airplane fold was just to increase the aerodynamics when you need to throw your on-fucking-fire phone because Samsung somehow found a way to hold the distinction of designing the first phone banned on flights across the globe due to catching on fucking fire. Imagine how cool that burning airplane (phone/firework hybrid) looks though!
Continues to baffle me that Samsung did their damnedest to go out of business with making all sorts of shit catch on fire for a few years and everyone went “meh, it’s shiny tho”
I had a folding phone back in the day. I think they’re called feature phones now. I preferred it over my Nokia because it was harder to accidentally call someone or make weird noises.
In order to call your mom, you have to:
Pick a color
Pick a number
Pick a number
Pick a number
No, not that number, Nora just did that and it’s not funny to get the same one twice
Okay, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5… Flips open page
You’re a turd
Wanna try again?
Four-dimensional hyperphone
Glad we’re finally moving away from the featureless black rectangle era, might even pick up a foldable once the price drops.
Right‽ Lmao, for years:
Everyone: The slab is so boring! Why can’t they just innovate!
Holly shit, I didn’t know that interrobang symbol existed in utf-8.
I like innovation, but i had 15 different people in my circle with a folding phone from Samsung and they all had constant issues.
Innovation does need to be good imo.
No sane person buys a foldy phone, unless they completely fix the issue of it breaking because it got folded.
Anecdotal of course, but my flip phone has been great for mental ver a year, and my friend has had his for a couple, but ymmv
I’m on my second foldy with no issues, first was 0g Pixel Fold and now the Pixel 9 pro fold
Or just use a normal phone that costs third as much. Or just use a pocket laptop if thats what you need because those can run linux and windows.
I don’t know why people bother to buy foldable phones, if you want bigger screen just buy tablet…smh…
Tablet has bigger screen plus it’s cheaper than buying foldable phonesTablet doesn’t fit in my pocket.
Buy a larger pocket. Easy.
Time to bring the JNCO’s back
I have a foldy phone, I’m never going back.
if you want bigger screen just buy tablet…smh
I did, multiple times, sooo many times in all manner of price points, sizes, brands and even OSs (I’ve got fucking Windows tablets WITH cellular FFS just chilling in archive). Do you know what happened to them? They started collecting dust within a couple weeks
I don’t want to carry multiple devices, even when I do want to I can never get the habit to stick, so I never have the tablet when I need it the most
My foldy phone solves that issue immediately, it’s a phone when I need a phone and a tablet when I need a tablet.
I’m just curious
Does the screen vertical folding bulge area (idk if it has its own name) somehow get in the way during day-by-day usage?
Do you mean the crease? Nah, I hardly notice it, I used to feel it when sliding my finger across one side to the next like to drag and drop things, but after awhile I stopped noticing that to
Do you have one of those who fold along the longer side or the shorter one?
I have the book-style pixel 9 pro fold.
The clam-shell style is truly a gimmicky nostalgia-grab IMO
I tried a pixel 9 fold for a little while, it was neat but way overpriced for the novelty, and there are no cases worth a damn that aren’t attached entirely by glue strips. Returned it and got a pixel 9 XL instead.
If they can make one with the same width/height as the XL (big hands, too many typos on the small screen keyboard), for under 1500, id probably go for it
That’s mine right now lol, I also had the OG Pixel Fold. I don’t find it to be a novelty for me. Def a bit on the expensive side, but since I buy my phones through the carrier on EIP anyways it’s meh.
I use the Poetic Spartan case and it’s solid, it has the adhesive strips, but I don’t use them (I just took em off) though it adds some heft, it’s worth it considering the amount of drops my phone has taken its protected against lol
I had one of the Ghostek ones. I went through Best Buy (unlocked, to try Grapheneos; which handled switching screens much better than i expected) due to good return policy and no restock fees in Ohio.
Why have a phone with a screen? Just use your computer if you need it, smh 🤦
Why have a phone at all? Just ask a friend to use theirs if you need it 🤷♂️ or maybe write a fucking letter for once? Damn kids…
Why have a friend at all?
going to my basement
Why have a computer when you can just use one at the library? smh
Why use a computer when you can just wander, naked and fearless, back into the forest from whence we came. Climb a tree. Make a nest of leaves. Screech “Ook Ook!” to let everyone know this is your tree now.
Reject modernity.
Embrace Mokee
I only contact people via my QRP rig, CW mode. Don’t talk to me unless you have a valid HAM licence.
Bigger screen and fits in my pocket.
tablet screen size is okay, but really the people who want bigger screens should be buying tvs. not to mention they have the advantage of being cheaper than tablets. but even tv screens can only get so big. a really cost effective way to get a big screen would just be to go to a movie theater. that’s like 10 dollars(?) for 2 hours of access to a huge screen.
I have the same question about tablets. A tablet to me is like a laptop without anything good about a laptop.
I have similar question: Why did Samsung bother with developing foldable phones? It isn’t selling as well as they thought, after all.
I guess you have to try one. I got a samsung fold 3, i loved it. Then, when my contract ended, i got a fold 6. I would have a hard time going back to a standard phone tbh.
My wife said she wouldnt get a folding phone but when i got my fold 6 i offered her my fold 3. She ended up really liking it and wants to get a newer fold when her contract ends.
So theres me, who knew i wanted one and am happy with it to the point where i cant go back. And my wife, who didnt want one but after trying one for a few weeks, said she got it now and would be upgrading to a newer fold when the time comes.
They need to get these in peoples hands if they want to sell them better.
If I want a bigger screen, I’m reaching for a laptop or desktop, not a phone with a self-destructing screen. I expect my gear to last at least 5 years, preferably 10.
My desktop and laptop are too clunky for day to day stuff. There are a wide range of things i now do on my phone that would be less than possible on a normal phone screen.
I dont blame you for not seeing the benefits. Like i said earlier, you need to try it to get it.
As for a self destructing screen, its nonsense. There are 5 people at my work that have folding phones. There are 2 fold 4’s 2 fold 5’s and a fold 3 as well as my fold 6, theres also my wife who has my 3 year old fold 3 and my brother who now has a pixel fold and no one has a broken screen. Oh! My mum and her partner both had flip 3 phones and have just bought the flip 6s and her partner ended up getting a fold 5 last year. No broken screens.
If you know anyone who has broken a folding screen, that person would have a brokwn screen regardless of having a folding phone or not. The amount of broken screens or damages cases i see in my day to day is insane.
I know even all of the examples i gave are anecdotal, but your claim about self destructive screens is simply false and not backed up with anything.
I expect to have my fold 6 in 5 years still as good as when i bought it.
I remember there being an uproar about folding screens developing visible seams after a while. I would consider that a failure.
Unless your folding phone also has a physical keyboard and a serious non-toy operating system, I fail to see how it can practically replace a laptop or desktop.
Word.
Phone for, uh, phone stuff, while I’m out and about. Pixel 4a, $70 on eBay.
PC and TV screen for internet.
Crappy $25 tablet for reading epubs.
Lemmy: NO! I want all my use cases on ONE device that doesn’t do any of them well!
OK, pay out the ass for it along with the associated global warming and ecosystem trashing. Oh, and the slave labor that took to produce it.
Lemmy: NO! Not like that!
