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Huawei Unveils $2,600 Foldable 'Mate X' Smartphone to Rival Samsung's Galaxy Fold
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Except the Surface is a wonderfully engineered, fully realized product, and even then its prices have never really come down nor has it really made much of an impact.
I think these phones are either like a prototype of the Surface, a product that sounds great on paper but really doesn't serve a function, or possibly it's like the Newton, a product way ahead of where the technology is.
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I have never understood why anyone would prefer a fingerprint sensor over Face ID. With Face ID all you have to do is look at your phone the way you naturally do, and it unlocks. It's like not having a password.
These phones when closed appear to be a lot thicker, and they are completely unusable with 1 hand when open. Moreover, when open it's basically just an iPad Mini. I can see where folding phones might take off at some point, but these designs just don't seem to be it.
When I'm in meeting, my phone is laying flat on the table, I've to lift to unlock. With touch id, I just touch it. If I lift it, people would notice. If I touch it without lifting it..... no one would notice. I can still view the message with my touch id iphone laying flat on the table.
That’s a lot of scratch. Get it down to $1200, fix the screen wrinkle stuff, and improve the industrial design a bit and I might bite.
The Surface Pro 4, as it's the last one I could stomach, had unreliable wifi, a keyboard with more flex than a 14 year old gymnast, a touchscreen that screamed stranger danger if used it for more than a few hours at once, and came stock with productivity apps that were both functionally incomplete and dangerously unreliable.
And sadly, they are some of the best Windows devices on the market.
Thanks for all your hard work Microsoft, keep the change.
I like how MacRumors.com has changed over time to also report on technology and topics that are not about Apple, you could say that because they are competition they are relevant but let's be honest, Android, Huawei and Samsung news generates a lot of traffic, many times even more than Apple topics. It is a becoming a decent web site to be informed about the latest from Samsung, Huawei and Android, and of curse the latest TV ads from Apple and their beta software releases. These foldable screens may not sound relevant right now but surely they will find their right place overtime, like the Apple Watch until it found its place as health device.
I've been paying the Apple premium for decades. That part I simply accept.
I'd be surprised if Apple doesn't have a foldable in the works. I'd be even more surprised if it's anywhere close to a $1200 price point. I'm into the idea precisely because it negates the need for two devices. Given (a) the cost of doing it "right"; (b) Apple margins; and (c) the likely cannibalization of iPad sales, it's virtually a given that if released, it'll be $$$$.
I’m sure if it’s awesome enough they can pry another couple hundy out of me. But since i upgrade every year, I have my limits
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When can pre order? Look better then sumsung..
Never believe what the Trump administration say...
I’m sure if it’s awesome enough they can pry another couple hundy out of me. But since i upgrade every year, I have my limits
I used to upgrade my laptops every year, and my phones every other year. I don't anymore. I have a 2017 15" rMBP that quite literally sits under my coffee table and gets pulled out once every couple weeks. I just can't stand it. My everyday machine is a 2014 15" rMBP.
I'm still using an ancient Phone 6S, but I just haven't been compelled by the newer models. They don't feel like a good enough value to me. (Emphasis on to me.) I'm also not psyched about the tradeoffs and changes — and yes, I've spent several hours playing with the X, XR, and XS. Part of my professional life and background is UX/UI, so I'm pretty good at knowing how I'll feel about product usage as time passes. I'll probably make the switch to this year's models, and like everyone else, I'll get used to it.
I think of it as "What am I getting? What am I giving up? And I'm paying how much for that? Nah."
But to be clear, it's not about the money. It's the principle. A dumb principle, perhaps, but it's mine.
And that's why I'd be willing to pony up BIGLY* for something like a foldable. The incremental convenience it would add to my life would be fantastic. In this case, I'd be OK being an early adopter and accepting the product as-is, warts and all.
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I have the same philosophy but a different read on the utility of the device. For me, it’s smartglasses. Apple does that right, and I’d pony up the big bucks for it. Frankly, I usually have my iPad and my iPhone with me anyway (bit pockets!) so a foldable, at least of the type we’ve seen so far, isn’t going to make much difference in my life. But glasses would be huge.
As usual, waiting until they can sell a device that doesn’t have a giant set of wrinkles in the middle of it and which works right. Just like they weren’t first with biometrics, weren’t first with large screens, etc.
I'm pretty excited about that space too. But the potential is big, and unlike phones and tablets where we're quickly running out of runway in terms of stuff you can "do" until a really big evolutionary step is possible, the sky's the limit with smartglasses.
Oh we notice
But it’s not nearly as distracting as those who think no one realizes they’re playing on their phone under the conference table. Yeah, we all know that move, no one’s fooling anyone lol. (I always just assume they’re playing on Facebook.) At least if it’s on the table, I’ll just figure they’re on Slack or reading emails.