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Samsung Announces Galaxy S10 Event on February 20 in San Francisco, May Include Foldable Smartphone

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Leaks suggest Galaxy S10 models will feature a so-called "hole-punch" display with a small cutout for the front camera instead of a notch. More cameras are also expected across the lineup, with up to a four-lens rear camera and dual-lens front camera expected on at least one Galaxy S10+ variant.
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Once again, if iPhone users want a similar aesthetic, I've come up with a solution:

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Cryates said:
Well that product will be targeted for a specific group of nerds, not much different from myself. I'm always excited to see things like this that should push the industry forward.
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I get it. My post was more a dig at Apple fans that seem as though they would prefer Apple to limit progress in order to keep the price of the "flagship" at the $650 level. $1,000 phones cost a lot because they cost a lot to build.

BigBoy2018 said:
The difference is samsung offfers a lot more OTHER choices than apple does. from cheap to expensive, from small to big.
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I know, but it's not like Apple only offers $1,000 phones. They have options that start at $450. Yes, they are older phones, but it's not like the mid-tier options from other vendors are brimming with the latest tech either.
 
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I'll be interested to see these in real life. My initial reaction is that a phone that is half as tall and twice as fat (when folded) doesn't solve any of my problems.
 
linkmaster02 said:
Many of the anti-folding comments remind me of how people reacted to the first iPod: https://www.theatlantic.com/technol...ago-apples-ipod-spurs-mixed-reactions/280795/

Long story short, most people are terrible at seeing the future of tech. Not that this folding stuff is guaranteed to be the future, but there's also no reason to doubt it at this point.
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Haha great reference, ironically enough the only positive quote in that article came from a Macrumors user.
 
I'm sure it'll look cool with the cutout, and give android fans some bragging rights. but its essentially the same thing as a notch, since you can't use the pixels above it, they might as well not be there. It does help with the illusion of having edge to edge, which is what the notch does, but if they can't make the chin the same size as the rest of the bezel then it is completely useless. Just make a forehead the same size as the chin and hide the camera in there, Then you have symmetry and a better looking phone.
 
So when watching fullscreen video or fullscreen game, you'll always see a dark dot in a corner? Will be interesting to see if that's more annoying or noticeable than the notch.
 
this folding screen nonsense is spreading too fast. we're nowhere near that. manufacturers have issues to produce a display that is resistant to accidental shock/puncturation/physical abuse. now they will just turn around and deliver something similar in quality and yet resistant to continuous abuse. hell, flexible PCBs are here for quite a while, and the most common issue in laptop screens is that these thin ribbons develop contact issues - and they just have stupid basic copper traces on them...

fold it a couple of time, then you might be able to rip it in half, and now you have 2 phones.
literally a 2 in 1 device.
 
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The Game 161 said:
The amount you can do on them are endless. Using the note 9 with my Xs max it’s quite amazing the amount you can do on the note compared to the max. Both great in their own right but iPhones are quite boring in comparison
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But surely if you're not interesting in doing any of these 'endless' things then the Samsung phone is just as boring as the iPhone?
 
Come on Samsung, bring back the flat phone. This obsession with curved (and now folding) screens is annoying, I returned the Note 9 over it. Either that, or make a screen that’s actually truly fully and completely scratch resistant so I don’t have to worry about a screen protector.
 
The Game 161 said:
The amount you can do on them are endless. Using the note 9 with my Xs max it’s quite amazing the amount you can do on the note compared to the max. Both great in their own right but iPhones are quite boring in comparison
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Specifics though ? Really, I would love to know specifically what makes the phone so exciting ?

If the options are truly endless what makes the experience so unique ?
 
Mars56 said:
How long has Samsung been pushing its own foldable phone rumors now? +7 years?
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Or the Microsoft courier before that It's not a new idea overall but actually folding a scr
Baymowe335 said:
Can't wait to see them try a foldable phone with buggy software and zero real world benefits...then quietly kill it in 18 months.

Samsung: Throw something out and see if it sticks.
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Zero benefit in having a screen that can double in size
 
iapplelove said:
Specifics though ? Really, I would love to know specifically what makes the phone so exciting ?

If the options are truly endless what makes the experience so unique ?
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From my experience there are a lot of people who truly believe that manually managing media via a file manager, changing their phone icons and installing apps from outside the store is 'exciting'.
 
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