The foldable iphones are definitely coming hopefully sooner rather than later, but don't worry people, the normal 'candy bar' iphones will be sold as normal for a long time, but the Iphone Fold will be sold at a higher tier than the current Iphone Pro's(essentially becoming the most premium iphone available).
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No Foldable iPhone Expected Until 2023 at the Earliest, But 2024 More Likely
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It’s interesting how often the stylus thing is misremembered.
Steve’s comment was about the use of a stylus as a primary means of input onto a phone (which was pretty common for resistive touch screens back then)
If you want to make people believe you have a prototype foldable iPhone. Walk around with an iPad mini glued to an ear and talk to yourself boosting about you know someone that knows someone that knows Kuo and you got your hands on an early engineered model.
Foldable phones feels like 3D TVs: A gimmick in desperate need of any validation that tech writers will give it, yet devoid of any real world value or practicality.
And it’s the same thing. The folding screen is not needed and it will break. I’d say it’s worse than touchscreen on Mac.
So in a addition to the possibilities of electronics failure and software failure, we can now add mechanical (fold failure)? Swell.
Unless a foldable phone is made of two separate screens joined by a robust precision hinge, then no thank you.
Unless a foldable phone is made of two separate screens joined by a robust precision hinge, then no thank you.
Yes please…
Lets see how the 500gb 8K proress files transfer over the usb-2 (aka lighting) port of the iphone 14
Whether it’s a gimmick or not I have no problem with it. It’s not as if they’d stop making regular iPhone pros. But this isn’t even a remote possibility unless apple feels they nailed it. iPhone brand is way too important to them vs a Samsung who couldn’t care less. Hey try this.
If 2022 brings a redesigned iPhone, then foldable iPhone could happen in 2024 only. Don’t think the new design will last one year only. But Apple could definitely launch the foldable iPhone as a different category of iPhones altogether. In this case, the launch could happen anytime.
It’s gimmicky but could work if Apple can fix the possible issue of screen issues and hinge issues with the constant opening/closing.. ie durability issues.
It’s basically an iPad Mini with cellular features but foldable.
Being Apple, the cost will be extravagant that mainly the first buyers would be Apple fan people, tech people and people with money to show off. They’ll beta test the unit to see how popular is may or may not get. If it does get popular, the general population will be better off waiting for version 2 hopefully at a lower price point.
It’s basically an iPad Mini with cellular features but foldable.
Being Apple, the cost will be extravagant that mainly the first buyers would be Apple fan people, tech people and people with money to show off. They’ll beta test the unit to see how popular is may or may not get. If it does get popular, the general population will be better off waiting for version 2 hopefully at a lower price point.
But that’s what I like about Apple,they don’t enter a new product category until they are ready, or they see a purpose for it.
You have Samsung, LG and Sony if you want a company that’ll just make everything.
There’s a reason Apple didn’t make a 3-D TV back in the day, or a touchscreen iMac, or a blu-ray player, or a touchscreen refrigerator, or an airfryer, or a smart washing machine.
Then here’s a solution, get an iPad.
Or even better, maybe hope that Apple puts that in something actually practical, like, say, maybe a pair of glasses?
Not a bendable piece of plastic
Me thinks it’s more likely we will see a pair of glasses that extends your phone screen and gives you more capabilities, instead of a bending piece of plastic with a big crease down the center that you can’t even use an Apple Pencil with
Tell us you don't understand Steve Jobs’ opinion of a drawing stylus without saying it.