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Samsung Debuts New Fifth-Generation Foldable Galaxy Z Smartphones
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Motorola did it with the Ultra a few months back and honestly as an iPhone user for 10+ years, the Android UI on the Ultra is excellent.
Alright everybody! Place your bets how long it will take before these ones break or the crease gets so big it becomes unreadable
6 years since Apple released the iPhone X with FaceID and still the competition cannot get it together and provide users with a proper 3D, secure, face unlock system.
Incremental improvements, new colors, and much higher price:
Folds are NOT a gimmick. They are here to stay along the non foldable. I love my iPhone, but I am tired of zero innovation from Apple, I think I will get a foldable from one brand or the other in 2024. Bye BlackBerry, I mean Nokia, I mean, Apple…
Thing I "need" to get me to buy into the idea of a foldable.
1. Decent water resistance (Need to be able to use it in the hot tub without a ziplock)
2. No crease on the screen when open, none... not "its not noticeable when using it"
3. iOS
4. A screen aspect ratio that makes since, 9:16 video full screen closed = 9:16 same size when opened with giant black bars top and bottom when opened (video doesn't get any larger)
1. Decent water resistance (Need to be able to use it in the hot tub without a ziplock)
2. No crease on the screen when open, none... not "its not noticeable when using it"
3. iOS
4. A screen aspect ratio that makes since, 9:16 video full screen closed = 9:16 same size when opened with giant black bars top and bottom when opened (video doesn't get any larger)
Is that why others rushed to attempt copying it? For the record though, Apple has been working on folding solutions for years. They just never rush to market. The create what best fulfills their vision for the product, or at least an iteration that will allow them to grow into it.
Can't wait to order my Tab S-whatever in the “Begie” finish!
Shows how sloppy they are as a company to have typos in their marketing images, tut tut.
Shows how sloppy they are as a company to have typos in their marketing images, tut tut.
I applause Samsung and others that invest so much into this tech.
in a few years i will be 100% owning a folding phone, i see so many benefits to it, the tech is still too young for me to be a guinny pig/early adopter.
But this is not a gimmick and will be a fully fledged design, i dare to say after 10 years almost all phones have folding screens, and we think back on the old days of current phones and chuckle.
in a few years i will be 100% owning a folding phone, i see so many benefits to it, the tech is still too young for me to be a guinny pig/early adopter.
But this is not a gimmick and will be a fully fledged design, i dare to say after 10 years almost all phones have folding screens, and we think back on the old days of current phones and chuckle.
Software > hardware, at least for me. I'm not leaving iOS for Android.
It is absolutely a gimmick feature, I think that I can count on one hand how many times I have seem someone actually using a foldable phone.
Yes iPhone hasn't innovated...you know...except for fixing the poor battery life, making the iPhone more and more water resistant as time goes on, making the display of the iPhone Pro MiniLED, advancing the cameras each generation, the A series chips still outclassing the Snapdragons every generation, the notch slowly going away, the iPhone 15 introducing a new programmable action button, solid state buttons are rumored to be in the pipeline for the future, and Apple slowly and slowly inching closer to their endgoal of a portless iPhone.
For me, that's the main reason I'll update from the flip4 to the flip5. Make the front screen more useful, and I'll not have to open the big screen as much. It's just handier to use that way.
One off breakages, that happens, even with iPhones, but on average 5-10 years maybe, who knows, they haven't been available long enough.
Say what you will about Samsung and how they are inferior to Apple but at least they are pushing the limits and innovating. Apple has essentially had the same phone for the last 5 years with very minor upgrades. Apple has the platform and ecosystem dialed in, how about pushing limits now. Take some chances on the iPhone platform for goodness sake.
Compared to Apple Samsung still sucks.
Flipping through all the apps as you go round the round watch really looks annoying. Quantity over quality.
Samsung’s pen still looks like 💩 compared to Pencil.
Sam💩 tablets still suck at 14.9”. They just suck more.
The flip phone concept is old tech. If Apple makes an iPhone flipper it will fine.
Flipping through all the apps as you go round the round watch really looks annoying. Quantity over quality.
Samsung’s pen still looks like 💩 compared to Pencil.
Sam💩 tablets still suck at 14.9”. They just suck more.
The flip phone concept is old tech. If Apple makes an iPhone flipper it will fine.
Agreed.
This a solution in search of a problem. Adding moving parts to a product NEVER makes it more durable in the field.
The engineering effort that goes into making this work well is better spent taking technology in other directions. There's no denying that the screen on a folding phone is somehow going to be a compromise. Whether it's weight, durability, repairability, cost, or performance. There will always be a trade to be made.
I'm sure for some people it's an attractive feature. I just don't see where it's luring in the masses yearning to fold free. Especially with different sized phones in the Apple lineup.
If Apple were to release a folding phone, I predict it will be a flop like the iPhone 13 mini. A certain segment of the market will swoon over it. Some people will buy it for "reasons" and then realize 6 months later it wasn't all that and a bag of chips. Then they will go back to the regular iPhone they had next time they upgrade, even if the iPhlop was still in production.
A Fold 5 is slightly bigger and heavier than my iPhone 14 Pro Max, my iPhone plus my iPad Mini that the Fold would replace is much larger and heavier combined. In fact my iPhone and my iPad Mini doesn’t fit in my pocket together which a Fold would. So either way there’s a compromise, one solution is less durable and a bit thicker than just the phone, the other solution requires always carrying around a bag. I can say the bag is more of an inconvenience to me than a slightly bigger phone.