LOL! @LFC2020 has been chopping after this for a while now. I’m still not sold though. If it actually happens, I might be late to the pre-order party. I need more rumors before I hop on the bandwagon. 🤔😜
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LG Reportedly Assisting Apple on Foldable Display Development
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Apple does not introduce a product into a market segment like this. If you compare the saturated mp3 portable music player market to the introduction of the iPod one would observe that what was offered and differed from the rest was the scroll wheel to navigate stored music in a relatively portable form factor. With iPhone it was to navigate via MultiTouch and not stylus to separate and differentiate it from the market. With iPad it was about tablet specific designed apps unlike AndroidOS phone apps stretched out. With this foldable/bendable device it will be something else. You are comparing what the market is presently and applying that to what Apple is developing presently and history has proven that is not how things are revealed.
Be excited and stay tuned.
If the screen is more robust than Samsung offering and there is no crease down the middle of the screen, they can take my money right now for a 7.7” foldable iPhone 😁😊
True I mean it would be cool to use on occasion but I never see it happening. Needs a complete new pencil redesign and the ui needs to be updated for larger screens and multi tasking better than just the same across the board. Maybe the next few years apple will add more iPad like ui to the larger iPhones and multitasking with side by side apps. Still think it’s its too small for standard iOS as it is now though.
I think one thing we can all assume safely at this point, Apple definitely is doing something with the foldable displays in the future. If I had estimate, this is probably at least the 13th/14th rumor about Apple working on a foldable display with possible partnerships and patents.
I don’t think anybody here really cares about when they release a foldable, it’s what they do different that works around all the short-comings that we saw with the Galaxy Fold and how Apple can convince the consumer to purchase a product that they may not necessarily need, but want. But my question ultimately is at what price point?
I don’t think anybody here really cares about when they release a foldable, it’s what they do different that works around all the short-comings that we saw with the Galaxy Fold and how Apple can convince the consumer to purchase a product that they may not necessarily need, but want. But my question ultimately is at what price point?
But everyone IS asking for a rollable phone.
Not too many people are keen on foldable phones..... but everyone seems to be very enthusiastic over rollable devices.
I would love to see (and own) a rollable iPhone....
Agreed. I remember the campaign in the Mac magazines for Apple to make an iPhone. Must have been going on for at least 3 years before they released that terrible Motorola hybrid prior to the real thing. I think Steve Jobs was adamantly against the concept of an iPhone until the engineers showed him the rubber band function and then he was all in.
Call me a cynic but I don’t see foldable screens being practical in a high use device like a phone for a very long time. These devices will have very short lifespans
There’s a good chance they’ll have to go back to Samsung. Other companies have often disappointed Apple forcing them back into Samsung’s arms. Samsung at least for the next few years will remain plan B for Apple, if not plan A.
In the past couple years, the landscape has completely changed. Samsung no longer owns the OLED market.
Look at LG's first rollable smartphone launched last month. The panel comes from BOE. Meanwhile, Samsung has nothing to show yet.
Galaxy Z Fold2: March 03, 2021
This nonsense is currently not interesting for most Apple customers.
There are still years to go, if it still seems interesting at all for phones then...
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