I sure wish they'd just put Phone.app on their LTE iPads. I carry my iPad everywhere already, and I've got AirPods. (and for the times I really can't have my iPad around, like when I'm on my bike, I can had an Apple Watch). Rather than let themselves be trapped in this ridiculous enlarging phone screen race, Apple should just admit that they already have the largest screens. If you didn't want your iPad to be a phone, would could still use it the old way. But for some of us, at least, Apple could give us that option.
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Samsung Shows Off New Foldable Smartphone Concept
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So that’s basically a CGI render. Lets see a working prototype.
These devices just seem like a proof-of-concept more than solving a problem out there. Any device that folds makes it a compromise. It won’t be a good phone and it won’t make it a good tablet. It reminds me of the Surface, a semi-compelling device that depends too much on the keyboard to ever become a true tablet.
iOS vertical flip phone a la Surface Duo with the screen size (for each screen) of SE. Tons of screen space with a small, pocketable form factor.
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Whatever Microsoft just did with their foldable is the way to go.
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or like using an iPad as a laptop.
I truly and honestly hope and pray that Apple NEVER makes a foldable iPhone... the Pro Max is enough screen for me and handles mostly all my needs with ease
If this becomes a thing, it needs to make a clack sound when shut. Younger Millennials — and certainly Gen Z — just don’t know the satisfaction that comes from closing a clamshell phone.
The only thing that’s come close since then has been the AirPod case. Close, but not quite.
Certainly, it is also awkward, but the iPad is pretty much the best tablet experience there is. The software ecosystem never arrived for Surface for tablet usage, so the keyboard/trackpad becomes a necessity.
The awe of a soft keyboard was lost on Microsoft's Balmer, and RIM's (Blackberry) two CEO's, too, and look what happened.
The world evolves. You may not see it today, but everything needs to start somewhere. I applaud Samsung for pushing the boundaries, even if the tech is ahead of its time.
Make something that folds as smoothly and slickly as the Star-Tac and we will be in business. Oh and with a cool belt holster as well.
In all honesty I like where this design is going better than the side by side fold.
AGAIN, What problem does this solve?
The Duo seems like a gimmick to me, and I'm a huge Microsoft fan boy. Foldable screens are the future, regardless if they are still not durable currently, although we really only have one device currently and we are all making assumptions based on that one device. 2 screens put together is still 2 screens, ZTE did pretty much the same thing 2-3 years ago. The whole 2 screen design won't last very long at all IMO, especially when foldable phones are released that are halfway durable and even more so because Microsoft is at the helm.
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The problem of having to carry a tablet around? Although that's more for the Fold 1, flawed as it may be. If we are talking about this idiotically tall when unfolded phone then yeah I would ask the same question.
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Hell no, not without a kickstand. The whole app ecosystem thing I never understood, other than some niche apps you can pretty much find anything on windows.
You admire them for releasing a seriously compromised device at a high price point? I don't.
I admire companies like Apple who are better at saying "we COULD sell this but it would be a pretty crappy experience, so lets not".
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Just because something is new and different doesn't mean its the future. Lots of "new" ideas get tried only to utterly fail, not because they were ahead of their time, but because they were mediocre to bad ideas.
Meanwhile releasing half-baked versions of products that might someday down the line be good isn't "pushing boundaries". Releasing a product before its ready is a bad thing, not a good one.
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Doesn’t stop the youtubers and tech bloggers to worship them. Just look at their fingerprint debacle. While many apps and even banks are warning customers to stop using the biometric on Samsung devices, hardly any youtubers even dare to criticize Samsung.
Samsung wishes they had the polish of Apple products, but refuse to do what it takes to achieve it.
They are in a constant mid-life crisis cycle like the guy that keeps coloring his hair, growing a beard, shaving it, growing a goatee, getting a piercing, then a tattoo, then going on a diet, then working out a lot, then going vegan, and never sticking with anything.
Samsung is directionless in consumer products and have no identity because they refuse to stick with something long enough.
Apple makes a decision and plays the long game, brilliantly. FaceID STILL hasn’t been matched.
They are in a constant mid-life crisis cycle like the guy that keeps coloring his hair, growing a beard, shaving it, growing a goatee, getting a piercing, then a tattoo, then going on a diet, then working out a lot, then going vegan, and never sticking with anything.
Samsung is directionless in consumer products and have no identity because they refuse to stick with something long enough.
Apple makes a decision and plays the long game, brilliantly. FaceID STILL hasn’t been matched.
These companies have plenty of cash to spend on R&D and if they try often enough maybe something will stick. Apple's strategy of making something useful from someone else's failures or mediocre innovations is well known so I wouldn't expect to see something like this from Apple for quite some time, but you know they are definitely doing the R.
I'm on the fence about the usefulness of a folding product though. A thin enough device usable as a phone that can open up to be an iPad mini I could appreciate but it better be thin and pocketable. That tri-screen concept someone showed off recently? A brick, too thick to be practical IMO. But at 1/3 the thickness when closed and solid when opened? Could be useful.