Depends on what you mean by foldable. The smaller flip type phones are actually quite popular in Asia.
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More like iPhonebook. Without "the". Because remember, Apple products are living beings.
"People love iPad", "People take lots of photos with iPhone"
Classic first reply. It’s the good ol’ nobody wants a foldable iPhone. It’s like 1% of the market. Yep…just like nobody wanted a phone with no physical keyboard or no one needs a camera on a phone. Give it a minute, champ.
Perfect! Make it the same size as the 13 Mini, give it a front facing screen and then when you unfold it have it mimic the front screen but double the size so I can read it. I don't mind if there's a display bar across the top of the internal screen that says " Happy now Grandad? " I can take it.
I see a lot of flip-style foldables in my part of the US. I've only seen one book-style.
Not interested in a foldable, but I would prefer a flip, if I had to choose.
I’m actually really excited to see what Apple pulls off. If this is done right it could be big! I might not be in the market for one but I’ve considered buying and iPad Mini in the future. So maybe this could be the perfect replacement for both and iPhone and iPad.
Eagerly waiting to see the foldable from Apple. The device should definitely have a 48MP main camera if it is not going to have a zoom lens as then it can be used for crop zoom. Disappointing though when the Samsung Fold has a zoom lens today.
The folding phone I want is a Flip that goes from normal (large) size iPhone down to smaller than an iPhone Mini when folded.
Doesn't look like I'll be getting any cookies.
Doesn't look like I'll be getting any cookies.
I can see space for the camera being one of the biggest hurdles. The thing is already going to be massively thick because it is two phones in one. So those two pieces need to be as thin as you can possibly make them. So maybe that means all the electronics in one side and the battery in the other? But the weight can't be lopsided. So will it have 2 smaller batteries?
Now add a camera bump and millimeters may not be the most appropriate base unit of measure!
It's been a decade in the coming because if you give a crap about build quality and user experience there are some really big engineering problems to solve.
Now add a camera bump and millimeters may not be the most appropriate base unit of measure!
It's been a decade in the coming because if you give a crap about build quality and user experience there are some really big engineering problems to solve.
Not for me, but certainly greater than one percent. The price will be something.
It will certainly take away some iPad mini sales. This is one reason I don't see it branded as iPhone.
It can be an iPad or an iPhone = Apple FoldSo basically, don't shoot me down, a folding iPad Mini.
The "mini" naming, and relative battery life were some of the reasons for the subpar sales. Both those are fixable now.
At their actual price points, both are tied at zero interest.
If they were priced as consumer products, maybe the Vision Pro wins slightly just for being a completely new type of product that might be fun for a few minutes until the novelty wears off.
I disagree. If it's a phone then it will be 'iPhone something'. Having iPhonebook as a play off 'phonebook' and t a lesser degree 'Macbook/Powerbook' is a pretty Apple thing to do.
Difficult to answer before establishing the 1% of what.
Global smartphones market?
USA smartphones market?
Global portable computing market (a vague category which contains phones, tablets, laptops)?
And even if it was 1% of the phone market now, it doesn't mean that it couldn't expand the share in the coming years.
It could erode some of the tablets market, for those who want a small tablet and don't need a full-size powerful one, and don't want to carry around 2 devices (it could kill the iPad mini)
So if this render is accurate and it’s basically a folded iPad mini, that’ll make a massively wide phone to carry round.
I think they need to make it fold twice! 😅
I think they need to make it fold twice! 😅
Totally not interested in a foldable iPhone, not even when it's 13-mini sized (highly unlikely). I'm only interested in a new mini. Either that or I'm going to move to a FairPhone with /e/OS as operating system.
Yeah, iOS doesn't have universal landscape support so it will probably be iPadOS with a Phone app.