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Latest Foldable Smartphones Experiencing Failures and Durability Issues
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3D was a gimmick. Even 3D IMAX looks meh...
Flexible screen have a lot more potential and could be implemented in different products, including TVs, laptops and tables allowing for more conveniant form factors while still offering a big screen.
Just check the rollable TV that LG announced last year and tell me you dont want to have this bad baby in your living room instead of this huge black panel on the wall.
Can someone please explain to me what the point of these things is? The tech seems to be failing at every turn and the practical usage seems to be nonexistent.
Absolutely! That TV is amazing!
But the rollable TV might only open and close once a day... and its bendable radius is much bigger than the tiny crease in a phone.
I expect the rollable TV to survive its intended life-cycle.
These current foldable phones... not so much.
This line is absurd; a company can innovate without releasing faulty product into the world, knowingly or otherwise. That’s what R&D and testing are for. Can you catch everything? No; that’s fine, and you have to roll with those punches.
But the Galaxy Fold situation proved that Samsung was in such a hurry to show off their shiny new thing that they either skipped a lot of QA or failed to fully consider how people who didn’t understand the limitations of the technology. That’s why the Galaxy Fold and Galaxy Z Flip now come with warning labels telling you not to, for example, push the screen too hard.
That’s not innovation, that’s cheaping out on testing expenses and expecting people to pay sizable sums so that they can be the guinea pigs instead.
I served on a jury last week with a guy who had the Galaxy Fold. He had to keep it in a padded velvet pouch in his bag and only pull it out when he could cradle it like a baby. It looked ridiculous in person. They are ridiculously thick and so awkwardly proportioned. He won some swagger points for having it, but seeing it used in real life made me realize just how absurd the proposition was from the beginning. Foldable tech will continue to be landfill fodder until major advancements in supercapacitors eliminate the need for batteries so that these devices aren't absurdly thick when folded.
Additionally, something like an iPad is a far better use case than a phone. That's literally how we ended up with the laptop. Hopefully Apple catches on to this instead of wasting everyone's time like Samsung and Motorola.
Additionally, something like an iPad is a far better use case than a phone. That's literally how we ended up with the laptop. Hopefully Apple catches on to this instead of wasting everyone's time like Samsung and Motorola.
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I think the bigger issue is that you have to wear glasses to see it. While it might look cool. It's too much of a hassle.
"...we just can't ship junk" -- steve jobs
still true today, it's quite tempting to try to be the first, but you should really be the best.
still true today, it's quite tempting to try to be the first, but you should really be the best.
Of course the concept of a folding phone adds value. You get a bigger screen than what you could normally fit in your pocket. If I could carry an iPad mini sized screen in my pocket, I'd jump at the opportunity if it were a proven technology with few, if any, drawbacks.
The problem is that these companies are releasing foldable phones just to get there first, despite the technology not being ready.
But saying there is no value in a bigger screen that you can fold away, is an intellectually limited perspective coming from I suspect the very people Steve Jobs was talking about when he said that if Henry Ford had asked people what they wanted to improve on horses as transporation, they would have said faster horses, not a car.
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I think that, if implemented properly, folding phones can be really useful. There have been plenty of times where I would've liked having two full screen apps side-by-side, or a much bigger canvas for the single app I'm using, etc. And that's without even mentioning the biggest benefits which would probably be felt when viewing videos, photos, and playing games.
I would LOVE to see in the future an iPhone that unfolded into a mini iPad Pro 😍
I would LOVE to see in the future an iPhone that unfolded into a mini iPad Pro 😍