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Samsung Rumored to Debut First Foldable Smartphone This Year
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Why does this article seem so confused by the usefulness of this kind of feature?
To have a phone that can TRULY replace a tablet? That's a big deal!
Put this in your pocket, and a foldable keyboard in the other...and you can easily leave the laptop or tablet at home in many cases.
To have a phone that can TRULY replace a tablet? That's a big deal!
Put this in your pocket, and a foldable keyboard in the other...and you can easily leave the laptop or tablet at home in many cases.
Agreed. What would one use this for? Unless it opens perfectly flat, not good for photos or movies. Unless is opens rigidly, you’ve got a flexible target for your fingertip, and how would you hold it and use it? Do we want a phone to be floppy? And do people who are now used to pulling out a phone and looking at it really want to go back to having to first open it up? No way it will survive a crease fold, and that bend fold leaves it pretty thick. The screen won’t survive bending in 2 axes simultaneously (eg. butt pocket) so it’d always need a rigid frame with a hinge or separation between halves.
All in all, cool tech which will fail in the mass market.
Did you watch the video? It's a brick/box. I'm sure the final product will be somewhat sleeker but there are constraints. The screen is bendable but can't be folded on a crease.
Interesting concept, but I am fine with Apple taking its time to get it right IF it’s a feasible product. Right now I don’t see it though. The hinges, the software, the materials, it all has to be perfectly executed. That’s something I don’t see Samsung doing.
Apple makes great hardware, but people don’t buy Apple products for the hardware. It comes down to software and overall experience. This is still an area where Samsung lacks. I don’t see this replacing the only tablet that people buy anytime soon.
The bitterness by the blind loyalists still going strong I see. Samsung's bone crushing, world dominating tech and innovation also still going strong. Which is a good thing, because the industry would still be at 3.5 inch displays without them. Apple still remaining to be the stragler that it is, and clinging on to Samsung's coattails as usual. What a joke.
You don’t reach a trillion by selling to “fanboys” - if they did that, they would have dropped mobile devices altogether and focused on building a new G5 tower and a MacBook as thick as a dictionary where every part is upgradable/replicable.
You reach a trillion by not focusing on market share, selling a good product that many people would pay a premium for, and knowing when to be “first” and when to be smart.
Apple has been really smart about a lot of things, knowing when first to market isn’t necessarily BEST to market. They miscalculated with the HomePod (both in terms of price/quality ratio, and the importance of assistant technology), but have been “right time, right place, right product” in many others.
And yet another crap Android device being introduced to mankind. This one will be a foldable crap device.
Like that huge monstrosity of a phone nobody would buy or copy from, what was it called, Samsumg Note or something like that...
