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Primitive Folding iPhone Built From Motorola Razr and iPhone Parts
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Totally! Most disassemblies I've seen of folding screens especially are extremely difficult to do if you want to preserve the screen.
God no, those things were always cracked and janky.Most likely yes but I've been holding out for the hand tablet/mobile devices from The Expanse:
Besides just being cool, it could be used to fold open a larger screen, or maybe for some people a smaller fatter phone is easier to pocket.
I tried to understand it… whole video might as well been in Chinese
Really? While not practical, I thought that was quite impressive engineering skills.
Not gonna lie, if Apple had a flip model I’d be ALL over it. Hopefully one day.
Interesting to see a folding iPhone. Wonder how Apple's version will be.
"The video is in the Chinese language"?? You don't know which one? Seriously? Are you actually not aware that Cantonese and Mandarin (the two most common of a huge number of languages spoken in China) are two completely different languages *and* you cannot tell the difference? Wow. Just wow.
A Chinese YouTuber has gone to great lengths to construct a foldable iPhone out of existing parts, merging the internal components of an iPhone with the foldable chassis of a Motorola Razr. The resulting device is an iPhone that is able to be folded in half.
The video is in the Chinese language with subtitles ....
A lot of people already lived through foldable phones and they didn’t survive for all sorts of reasons. The general public doesn’t see the current sized slab phones, big or small, as a problem requiring the screen to fold in half, or double in size depending on how you look at it.
And the compromises required to make a foldable device will absolutely be seen as negatives for a lot of people, which is something Apple is very unlikely to risk.
I expect we will see AR based glasses from Apple before they would go the foldable route, as a way of providing huge screens.
I'm sorry, I just don't understand the appeal of foldable phones.
- Twice as thick
- Distortions in screen quality right where it bends (lovely when watching movies or scrolling text)
- More likely to be scratched, especially when sand gets trapped between the two halves
- High failure rate compared to a conventional screen
really? well, say this youtube is full of these people doing these re-engineering projects. The problem is durability. Frankly speaking not interested unless been tested and apple themselves releases it. which is a few years away.
This video makes me think about the utility of all those iPhone stands and holders. Up until now I thought, they were just useless money grabs. But if someone is willing to destroy the structural integrity of their phone only to bend half of the screen at a certain angle, then maybe a $50 Belkin Car Vent Mount PRO with MagSafe is good for something?
The worst thing about 3D TV was that LG eventually perfected it with their passive 4K OLED sets. There was no janky syncing of active glasses, no flicker, virtually no loss in brightness and absolutely zero crosstalk. Just rock solid perfect 3D that was still to all intents and purposes 1080p after upscaling to the 4K panel. And then they stopped making them because the previously ropey technology had already killed the market. A travesty 🫤
I know right LOL. I too am not a fan of foldable devices, but I can still appreciate how much work and ingenuity went behind a project like this.
For a forum that claims to love tech, there's way too much hate here for someone who's just having fun with a super complicated engineering project.
Unless you are disabled maybe and holding a large slab is difficult or painful. You cant speak for the 'general public' as there will always be exceptions. I'm disabled I have Osteoporosis so my bones are crumbling away, even the iPhone Pro at 6.1 inches hurts my wrists and fingers, I have to use voice typing more now than the keypad to and thats not fun as its always typo central, and holdimg an ipad is now impossible for me, so a folding device that could be a larger screen to put on a desk and a smaller phone where I can take calls in its folded position would be great, yes I would like that to be with iOS, the issue is there are no foilding or rolling iPhones so I'll seriosuly have to consider a fold model over a iPhone as time goes on and I really don't want to do that. So please dont speak for the 'general population' even with with good intent. There are always exceptions to the rule.
I would much prefer apple or other manufacturers go back to making more small phones that offer uncompromising performance and allows for 1 hand usage.
This whole folding nonsense isn't going to last. If you want a larger screen an iPad or Samsung Galaxy tablet offers a superior experience for most.
Don't be that jerk on the bus pretending to be doing real work on a small ass phone screen like that. Stop playing and get yourself a laptop or a tablet with a keyboard case.
This whole folding nonsense isn't going to last. If you want a larger screen an iPad or Samsung Galaxy tablet offers a superior experience for most.
Don't be that jerk on the bus pretending to be doing real work on a small ass phone screen like that. Stop playing and get yourself a laptop or a tablet with a keyboard case.
You can turn on translated subtitles in English and many other languages. That gives a lot of interesting insight.
I wonder how much of this video is fake. I wanted to believe it, but when they showed at about 13-14 minutes that they changed iOS to accommodate a split screen, I had my doubts of this being authentic.
There are enough „fake“ videos online of people repairing old tech which are fake, too.
There are enough „fake“ videos online of people repairing old tech which are fake, too.