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Kuo: Apple to Launch 8-Inch Foldable iPhone in 2023
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personally i would give a folding smartphone the time of day if it were executed really well. i enjoy the idea where i can use it in a portrait mode for most functions, possibly even landscape it for a bit more real estate, but if i want to enjoy any sort of media, look at a large pdf of spreadsheet, big email, etc. the ability to unfold to a small tablet seems pretty damn nifty.
absolutely agreed. the notch is something that should never ever have happened
you know damn right Apple is never the first to do most things but they ALWAYS hit it out of the ballpark everytime they put their spin on a idea.
Butterfly Keyboard not ring a bell?
That is why there are rumors of a 8.5 inch or more new iPad mini .
I would love to have an 8 inch foldable with iOS and tight integration. Samsung was first of course, but I don’ t want an android foldable, I want an iOS foldable. Because of the iPad platform , apple won’ t need a lot of software updates or conversion, etc.
Mark my words, supply will be limited, and demand will be overwhelming.
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These are dark days for people with OLED PWM sensitivity & who like to be on the cutting edge of tech.
Looks like I’ll still be rocking my iPhone XR in 2023 then 🙄.
Looks like I’ll still be rocking my iPhone XR in 2023 then 🙄.
I predicted this like a decade ago and have been looking forward to it for ages. But after seeing how much Samsung charges for their foldables, no way I’m paying even more than that for Apple’s version. It would have to be pretty magical. I also don’t see something like that having as good of a camera, especially for the first five years. That’s a dealbreaker for me.
Let's see and consider the negative and positive points:
- weird and dumb aspect ratio in folded mode
- weird and dumb aspect ratio in unfolded mode
- cheap- and plastically feeling screen
- sooner or later a crease in the middle of the screen
- when folded, much thicker than a regular smartphone
- more expensive than two (better) seperate devices
+(?) two devices in one
- weird and dumb aspect ratio in folded mode
- weird and dumb aspect ratio in unfolded mode
- cheap- and plastically feeling screen
- sooner or later a crease in the middle of the screen
- when folded, much thicker than a regular smartphone
- more expensive than two (better) seperate devices
+(?) two devices in one
+100
I kinda get why it happened when it did in 2017 as a stopgap solution, perhaps with a lifespan of 2 years max. Apple should have thrown a heap of R&D money and talent to beat the race in under-display camera technology instead of milking the same tooling again and again and again
Not buying it until it runs Mac OS and I can’t believe there are no pro apps for it yet. Ffs Apple.
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don't care about foldables and considering one of the best selling phones last year was an iPhone with a touch ID home button and classic bezel, I don't think most people do either.
Also consider how hesitant Apple is with combining touch and Macs; I think they want to sell you ALL their products, why make a phone that could potentially eat into iPad sales, which has become another beast of its own.
Also consider how hesitant Apple is with combining touch and Macs; I think they want to sell you ALL their products, why make a phone that could potentially eat into iPad sales, which has become another beast of its own.
This is what good it could do. You see these notchless iPhone mockups in advertising popping up left right and center by companies big or small alike, because: users hate it (getting used to it is not the same as liking it). Companies hate it. Apple itself hates it (often using dark wallpapers on their marketing shots that obscure it). It's already more than 4 years old and ageing badly. It might not be affecting sales but it's still an eyesore (just imagine how well iPhones would sell without it).
The notch has to go.
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I have an foldable smartphone. The Samsung Galaxy Fold 2. And I can tell you. After you get one you'll never want to go back to a regular phone, ever again. It's so nice to have. Also got it for cheap. Paid €699,- euro's for it.
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Apple has had Plenty of time to watch the competition to release their versions and learn from mistakes with the flex display modules, hinge points, ect. In Terms of offering something ‘different’, a a foldable display would be it. A lot can change between now and 2023, but this is another revolution point in the smart phone world era.
I still don’t see how anyone can pull this off in a ‘must have’ way. Still seems like a tchotchke
Dumb comparison. Apple doesn't compete against the entire range of mobile phones.
Also moot: average is hardly a correlation for smart.
Great pictures. Where are the sensors for Face ID though? 🤔
And I'm pretty sure, the ten or twenty whiny people, who STILL think the notch is worse than the anti christ wouldn't impact iPhone sales that much. 😆