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Phones Folding phones the next frontier
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another shrinking of bezels would be awesome.
Ludatyk
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I’m sure it’s on the roadmap… but reality is settling in for me, curious how the trade-in deals are going to be. Have a feeling Samsung will be frugal when it comes to giving us discounts toward the upcoming foldables.Agreeanother shrinking of bezels would be awesome.
During the Fold 6 pre-orders… Samsung gave me 1k for my Fold 4, which was very generous of them… but I don’t think that’s in the cards for me now. I’ll probably get $800 for the Fold 6 and with the Fold 8 costing $1900… guessing I’ll be paying around $800-900 this time around.
Going to do the veteran move of contacting them a few days after I preorder to see if they have any more discounts toward lowering the cost (last time they credited me around $160).
Bkdodger
macrumors 601
Yeah ideally 1k trade in would be nice and usually the order then cancel for additional 5% but I never called them previously so that looks to be a good move too.
rhinosrcool
macrumors 68000
rhinosrcool
macrumors 68000
Well, here you have it folks. A supposedly real image of the new foldable phones.
If the crease has not been improved, then it would be a pass for me. I know everyone is different, but I never like the crease when trying these phones at the store.
Yeah, I don't care about the crease. However, I really miss the s pen. So, we'll see if one of the folds intrigues me enough without it.
My boss had a Motorola Flip and it seemed nice but after 6 months the novelty must have worn off he is back to using his iPhone. I have only seen one of the Samsungs in the wild and I guess it might work for some but is definitely a 2 hander.
Bkdodger
macrumors 601
S pen I don't ever use it enough to miss it but I would like them to come back with it.
Ludatyk
macrumors 604
I didn’t think to contact them as well… until I checked in on Reddit and seen the increased discounts applied. And when folks reached out to Samsung to get credited… decided to do the same.
Yeah, I’m going to miss it too. Strangely, I’ve been avoiding using the S-Pen now… to get adjusted to not having it.
I have a stand that I solely use with the Fold… so I’ve been using the MX Master mouse a lot more now, which having a back button nice is nice to have (something I wish the S-Pen had). Only thing missing is the ability to change the mouse cursor… similar to how we can on Pentastic with the S-Pen.
We've discussed the Razr Fold and iPhone foldable but you're not totally wrong. LolThis thread should just be renamed to Galaxy Fold/Flip as y’all don’t discuss anything else here
Bkdodger
macrumors 601
Yeah some sprinkling of other devices which now that some dummy units are hitting for the iPhone Ultra some comparison pics vs other devices ..
I guess time will tell how many will actually purchase an iPhone fold at the projected price then again its Apple with a new product who knows.
rhinosrcool
macrumors 68000
I know that I say I don't care about the crease (at least with Samsung's), but this one looks awful!Yeah some sprinkling of other devices which now that some dummy units are hitting for the iPhone Ultra some comparison pics vs other devices ..
Bkdodger
macrumors 601
It's a dummy unit so the crease is not indicative of how it's going to be when it's released, they pretty much do this for case manufacturers and for overall pre-release
rhinosrcool
macrumors 68000
Yeah, I agree with you. It's just that the example was so bad I had that response.