Samsung Claims Foldable Phones Are Going Mainstream

[AdonisSMU]

There are certainly a lot of smartphones, but how many of those are considered premium smartphones? The Fold starts at $1800, which puts it outside the range of most consumers. Pricing is the biggest problem with the Fold (excluding the Flip).

$1800 for a phone that will have a crease in the screen 4 days after my puchase…. I think ill pass.

 

[tubular]

I’ll wait for the foldable 3D television.

 

[verniesgarden]

How many seconds does it take that coffee table go from 0 to 60?

less than a Ford - 🤣

 

[theOmega]

I live in London, only ever saw 1 foldable in the wild

 

[kc9hzn]

Do you mean aspect ratio of the folded screen, or the size of the folded screen? For either case those who value the form factor as their most important attribute are accepting of this.

The folded and unfolded aspect ratios is what the poster means, I think. I’m actually quite fond of the aspect ratio of my iPhone XR. It has a decent amount of space for content above the keyboard without being overly large. But a phone that unfolded to its screen size and ratio would have such a weird screen ratio (and size), one that reminds me very much of a Microsoft Kin One, with its almost square display. And an iPhone XR sized and shaped display that unfolded horizontally would be a rather square display for stuff like video, though it could perhaps be useful for some iPad style productivity apps (but more like an iPad mini than an iPad Air or iPad Pro, at least in terms of screen size).

 

[kyykesko]

Phones that cost from 1,1ke to 1,7ke are coming "mainstream"? Yeah, right. I wouldn't mind a foldable phone if the screen could actually handle it, it would be light and thin enough to actually carry around with you (and not the thickness of two phones glued together), and if the price was right. Currently none of those are even close to being reality.

But yes, given that they took care of all that I'd love to buy a device that'd work as an iPhone and would double as a iPad Mini when required. And no, I'm still not prepared to pay the price of an iPhone PLUS iPad mini for such a thing.

 

[usagora]

All I saw on the iPhone X was the notch across the screen. I grew accustomed to it.

At the top extreme of the phone, not smack dab in the middle of your content. Sort of a bid difference there.

 

[seek3r]

Phones that cost from 1,1ke to 1,7ke are coming "mainstream"? Yeah, right. I wouldn't mind a foldable phone if the screen could actually handle it, it would be light and thin enough to actually carry around with you (and not the thickness of two phones glued together), and if the price was right. Currently none of those are even close to being reality.

But yes, given that they took care of all that I'd love to buy a device that'd work as an iPhone and would double as a iPad Mini when required. And no, I'm still not prepared to pay the price of an iPhone PLUS iPad mini for such a thing.

I’ve been seeing a large, maybe surprising, amount of those out in the wild FWIW

 

[Matthew.H]

I’ve been seeing a large, maybe surprising, amount of those out in the wild FWIW

Also have the aspect of Samsung devices is that they have offers on them from pretty much launch day. I saw an ad in the local Samsung store a year of Disney+ with the purchase of a Fold 4.