It's a scroll, a sundial, and an abacus. These are not three separate devices..
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Hands-On With Google's Pixel Fold Smartphone
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Sure, I understand what you are saying. I'm not trying to convince anyone to buy one, because I'm certainly not benefiting from doing so, I'm just giving folks the info I have.
Mine works all the time, actually better than my iPhone right now. For some reason my iPhone sometimes keeps the screen on, even though it's in my pocket, and if an app gets launched by being in my pocket, it gets warm and eats up the battery life. And I'm not even counting the times the flashlight gets turned on and it does the same thing. My Flip4 *never* does that.
When it was $199 the phone companies were subsidizing the cost of the phone and required a two year contract. That's mostly gone now so we're paying for the phone outright.
Right!? I've never had a screen issue with the four foldables I've owned either. My screens have always worked reliably, all the time.
Yeah. but this was only my 3rd foldable.
Flip2, Razr, Flip4. No failures.I know people love to hate on anything these days, especially Apple, but they do a damn good job with their ecosystem. Yeah not everything is perfect and not every person's desires are going to be met, but the cohesiveness is leagues above the rest.
I 100% agree with you here. Things like Android smart watches and most Android tablets are well behind Apple. Android TVs and phones for example, are great though.
Absolutely there are great Android devices, but even if you go all-in with Samsung you're stuck with a bunch of sorta-good solutions. For a family, all being able to use Find My for every device including AirPods, iPads, laptops, etc to having Photos library sharing and such be so simple is a huge time saver and stress reducer. Screen Time is great, though there are a few features I'd like to see added.
They're catching up with some implementations like Nearby Sharing and whatnot, but they'll never be as good because they have so many devices with their own limitations and implementations.
There are obvious advantages with foldables. No need to describe them. However, there’s another reality: due to its form factor, in the same volume, a foldable will have worse battery, durability, cameras and screen than an equivalent slab-phone.
And I see no point in the foreseeable future where slab-phones are so far ahead that the /2 version is acceptable, and the foldable feature outweighs the downsides. Few people will want a barely-1 day battery vs a solid 2 days. Few people will want a plastic screen with crease vs pure glass screen. And few people will want a “probably will survive” frame vs a phone that can survive everything.
And I see no point in the foreseeable future where slab-phones are so far ahead that the /2 version is acceptable, and the foldable feature outweighs the downsides. Few people will want a barely-1 day battery vs a solid 2 days. Few people will want a plastic screen with crease vs pure glass screen. And few people will want a “probably will survive” frame vs a phone that can survive everything.
Is that the Android manufacturer business plan? Charge twice as much before Apple?
I had a galaxy fold 3 for about 9 months before going to iphone 13 pro max.
The front screen was too small and long. I found myself using the inside screen more than I expected because of this.
The battery wasn't great in comparison to 13 PM. It would always be <20% by end of day.
The weight never bothered me.
The inside screen was great for most things and I miss having multiple apps on the screen.
The 'crease" wasn't visible at all angles and when using I rarely noticed it. The crease really isn't as bad as hype makes out.
Just like ios the os had good and bad aspects, but that's a whole other subject.
The Google phone looks a lot better than the fold 3 and if apple released a foldable with a similar form factor to the Google I'd probably get it. But I think ios would need quite a bit of work to optimise for the desired experience over the current ios.
The front screen was too small and long. I found myself using the inside screen more than I expected because of this.
The battery wasn't great in comparison to 13 PM. It would always be <20% by end of day.
The weight never bothered me.
The inside screen was great for most things and I miss having multiple apps on the screen.
The 'crease" wasn't visible at all angles and when using I rarely noticed it. The crease really isn't as bad as hype makes out.
Just like ios the os had good and bad aspects, but that's a whole other subject.
The Google phone looks a lot better than the fold 3 and if apple released a foldable with a similar form factor to the Google I'd probably get it. But I think ios would need quite a bit of work to optimise for the desired experience over the current ios.
I agree with you on all points except one. When you remove the inner screens screen protector, which I have every time because I see no need for it, the display you are touching is ultra thin glass. I've never had even a hairline scratch on my inner displays after removing the screen protector, and I've even checked them with a loop. It does not void the warranty either, even though the inter-webs would like people to believe otherwise.
Huh? If anything Apples is going to start at 2,3k
With a giant, ugly crease down the middle of it. lol. And it's probably 2" thick.
I would prefer two separate screens behind glass (without a bezel) to avoid the crease and make it durable. This seems like it would be a cheaper and more practical solution that virtually achieves the same result. I’m surprised no one is doing it.
Google offered a $900 trade in for my 13PM and I was curious. Now that I've had the GPFold a few weeks, I don't look back. I have macs, ipads, apple watches, a work iphone - I just wanted a fun personal phone and now I have it. It is my toy (though it doesn't look like a toy
I’m not sure what the business case is for selling $2k plus phones. Maybe it’s good. the auto industry sells luxury behicles amd exotic cars at a profit. Maybe that works here too.
Tell that to some of the posters here. 😩
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It's far less than 2" thick, and the crease really isn't that that noticeable. You might want to actually look at one some time...
