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Kuo: Apple Could Launch Foldable iPhone With 7.5–8 Inch Display in 2023
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Foldable phones are the future, actually is the next step in smartphones design and will be a trend as important as when manufacturers abandoned the physical keyboard and opted for the touch screens after Apple launchedthe first iPhone 14 years ago. Now is time for Apple to give the step and to leader this new trend age.
I mean, that's clearly not true. There are even people that are buying these flawed folding phones now. A phone that can expand to the size of a tablet is something loads of people would love if it actually worked. I have an iPhone and an iPad. If it were possible and in a user friendly way, I'd love to be to have my iPhone fold or a stretch to become the size of my iPad.
You seem to be very sure that everyone wanted iPhone like devices before they existed but that's rose tinted hindsight talking. Devices like that were wanted by a small number of people but on the whole, the concept was mocked by 'most' users. I had a 'smart' phone with a full screen display in 2005, a Nokia 7710 and few years earlier, I had an HP iPaq. I wanted devices like that to be a thing but they were just terrible to actually use. The iPhone was the same approximate concept but it *worked*. Naysayers would see those early smartphones and would say that no one wanted a full screen device in their pocket and certainly not without a keypad or keyboard and that devices like those had no realistic place in the world. Nobody would want to pull a full screen out of their pocket to read an SMS just a little bit bigger.
Have you realized that iphones are a combo device almost since the first version?? ==> Cell phone, digital camera, GPS, flashlight, music (mp3) player, ebook reader, calculator, voice recorder, scanner, internet navigator, email client and so on.
We are talking them for last Q of 2023, so it’s not right now but 2 and a half years later from now.
Im more hoping for a Z Flip style iphone, but will take any type of folding iphone that Apple release. Traditional phone design and innovation has pretty much plateaued, and this is the shot in the arm the industry desperately needs.
Keeping that screen clean and unbroken (from dropping) will be a problem. And there is no way that a screen will not show signs of 'creasing' or other folding artifacts over time. It is a show-piece. But I prefer an iPad for larger work.
An iPhone that could transform into an iPad certainly would have my interest but the design has to be better than the galaxy fold.
Cause that device just not sleek enough for me. Something as sleek as the Microsoft duo but with just one screen not two separate screens.
Cause that device just not sleek enough for me. Something as sleek as the Microsoft duo but with just one screen not two separate screens.
I just don’t see the point of foldable phones. What problem are they solving? Are they supposed to combine a smartphone and tablet? For sure having a large foldable screen on the iPhone could have interesting usage cases, like Apple Pencil usage eventually, but what else is there? Just a smartphone screen when closed and a tablet screen when open?
Good for you. I'm glad you got this comment out of your system. What a load off, huh?
Is an iDevice with a 7.5-8 inch screen an iPhone or an iPad?? May need a new name ... iPhad?
I don't want it, I'll buy it no doubts and will whinge how stupid this thing is.
That's what I really waiting for too, As well as wearable retina projecting AR.
But... my expectations and common sense driven predictions are always wrong, so ...
Instead of actual innovations, we will welcome gimmics.
The value of this "feature" will be reflected in company's profits, not in consumers' satisfaction.
Samsung was not the first to bring a foldable smart phone to market nor were they the first to present a foldable concept. Samsung is just as guilty of copying as any other smart phone manufacturer.
It is interesting that Apple had filed a patent for a flexible display in 2011 and 2014. So this is not a last minute “let’s board the foldable phone” ship like everyone else. Apple is taking their time I suppose to get it done right. If nothing else Apple is good at getting things to work well.
Foldable smartphone - Wikipedia
2011 Apple Flexible Display Patent
2014 Apple Flexible Display Patent
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Will the foldable iPhone have an “Origami inspired” case like the AirPod Max’s???
In seriousness, I will reserve judgement. A lot of people thought the iPhone would die without a physical keyboard. If this is done right I can see it being good. However the current foldable phones I’ve handled have annoying seams and a touch surface that feels like plastic and flimsy.
In seriousness, I will reserve judgement. A lot of people thought the iPhone would die without a physical keyboard. If this is done right I can see it being good. However the current foldable phones I’ve handled have annoying seams and a touch surface that feels like plastic and flimsy.
It's one thing to have concepts, ideas, and patents. Every one can come up with them. To actually have the abilities to implement and resolve enough technical issues to make them a reality, like Samsung do, is something to be commended. Now that companies like Samsung have made this tech mature enough, other companies, Apple included, have shown interest. There will always be people who try to advance technologies, and there will always people who only show up to make money on these technologies.Samsung was not the first to bring a foldable smart phone to market nor were they the first to present a foldable concept. Samsung is just as guilty of copying as any other smart phone manufacturer.
It is interesting that Apple had filed a patent for a flexible display in 2011 and 2014. So this is not a last minute “let’s board the foldable phone” ship like everyone else. Apple is taking their time I suppose to get it done right. If nothing else Apple is good at getting things to work well.
Foldable smartphone - Wikipedia
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2011 Apple Flexible Display Patent
2014 Apple Flexible Display Patent
I could just see now, since people like chucking their phones off roof tops to "test" to see how more durable they are, they'll probably bend these things like crazy.. Like flapping birds, just to see at which point they break it.
Durable nothing... See? it breaks
Durable nothing... See? it breaks