cmaier
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But you can see that both the front and back screens are flush with the edges of the case. So the case cannot be adding thickness.
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Samsung Shows Off Prototype Smartphone With Foldable Display
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Shanghaichica
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aliensporebomb
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The difference is that Samsung hasn't hyped anything in fact they stayed quiet about it and all you heard was rumors by people other than Samsung.
Apple did hype AirPower including in their keynote, website and even iPhone XS manual papers, yet they still didn't deliver it. Get your facts straight.
aliensporebomb
macrumors 68000
I want my floating hovering folding space phone.
[doublepost=1541713852][/doublepost]I picture the tagline: Samsung Galaxy Folding: and you thought the iPhone XS Max was expensive.
[doublepost=1541713852][/doublepost]I picture the tagline: Samsung Galaxy Folding: and you thought the iPhone XS Max was expensive.
chronos1919
macrumors member
I'm making a guess, same as you are. The difference is that mine is an educated guess. 😉
As has already been pointed out:
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A bit of column A, a bit of column B.
Displaymate gave pixel 3 mxl, the "Best Smartphone Display" after xs max.
Sorry. XS Max is no longer best 😛
P.S. displaymate gives "Best Smartphone Display" moniker to nearly every screen they tested recently 🙂 The proof is in the pudding. Look at each parameter tested and Note 9 excels in more than xs max. Sorry again that xs max screen is not better than note 9.
First. Apparently you skipped English. I wrote "effectively." Second. Stop being such a JH.
for the people saying it's thick... think long and hard about the physics of folding something thick. Think about what you can see in the vid. really think about it...
We were talking versus the Samsung, not LG...but whatever. The XS Max tested better overall than the Note 9.
Justanotherfanboy
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groadyho
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Except they said when folded the screen size is 4.6 inches just a touch bigger than a IPhone se @ 4.5 inches
TobiWahn_Kenobi
macrumors member
I so wish this tech would come to fruition but I fear the fragility of any folding/bending design. I am really looking forward to how they try to solve this.
Based on what? Those short answers with no essence are pointless, sorry. It doesn’t solve a problem at all. I kind of addressed your response indirectly a bit further down as well.
Naraxus
macrumors 68030
Think it is masking case. May not be that much. Maybe half that empty space.
You are still not getting it and never will. It is pointless to discuss this further at this point. You are mistaking complexity with convenience, a common misconception in tech.
I don’t dislike the tech, it’s great they come up with the idea, it’ll push other ideas and concepts but the described use case will simply never be a thing for the masses.
Ps you completely omitted and didn’t address my surface reference simply to Make a point. My comment about trying to cramp everything into one device is a very valid one.
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What complexity you are talking about?
Just unfold and you have bigger screen.
You are the one that don't get it.
Applestock
macrumors regular
Not a bipolar comment. The device is too thick to be nicely pocketable. It needs to be close to half the thickness of current phones (~4mm) in order to be somewhat similar in thickness to the current phones when folded (basically pocket mode) Extra redundant screen on the outside means wasted space. Since the screen is covered in something other than glass, it won't hold up to scratches and such nearly as well (and you can't put a glass screen protector on it). Really weird aspect ratios. Tablet screen size is smaller than an iPad mini (not good tablet) and phone screen size is smaller than current phones (not a good phone). It's like the Microsoft surface of phablets, but even worse.
[doublepost=1541719006][/doublepost]This is some seriously wishful thinking. The current crop of iPads are 5.9 mm thick. No other devise is thinner. If you were to fold it in half, it would be thicker than the thickest phones out there. Still not very pocket friendly. And I doubt this thing is even going to be 5.9mm. Probably something like 7 - 9mm, which would made for a serious "are you happy to see me?" device. This tech won't be mass market for a very very long time, if EVER.
Exciting tech but not sure why showing this now rather then waiting and show the actual product, probably to avoid leaks but this just leaves us with a disappointing announcement. The Microsoft courier protype value proposition still holds much better and of course historically Samsung has great tech but they’re not good at executing (can’t believe they showed all those galaxy phones on stage as if they were proud of that c*ap, until the 8 all those phones were terrible (and yes I’ve had a lot of them through work for testing purposes).
Excited for the final product announcement anyway, good to see Samsung leaving Apples shadow
If Apple does pick up on this it will be in many years to come and whatever they’ll do, it will be much incredibly refined and well executed and we’ll be wondering how we lived without it before
Excited for the final product announcement anyway, good to see Samsung leaving Apples shadow
If Apple does pick up on this it will be in many years to come and whatever they’ll do, it will be much incredibly refined and well executed and we’ll be wondering how we lived without it before
Abazigal
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My guess is that Samsung is desperately seeking relevance. Their smartphone sales is imploding, wearables have gone nowhere, while VR is all but dead in the water. Samsung needs something new to latch to in order to offset slowing device sales.
This might work, or it could just be the desperate flailing of a company desperately searching for new growth vectors. Will users accept the inherent trade-offs found with such a device for any perceived benefits of having additional screen real estate in a smaller form factor?
I guess that is a riddle only time can answer.
Judging by some of the comments in here, progression is only acceptable when Apple implements new technology/ideas on their phones. When competitors try to progress, it’s always a race to be the first and therefore not perfect nor influential. What kind of logic is this.
The purpose of progression is to advance. Of course there will always be room for improvement, therefore it becomes a learning experience and foundation for further progression. Attempts to progress in smartphone tech should always be applauded, regardless of company, because if successful will be widely implemented across all brands.
A very good example of this is how Apple was influenced in adopting larger screens because other brands progressed to the larger sizes and were successful. RIP <5’ screens.
The purpose of progression is to advance. Of course there will always be room for improvement, therefore it becomes a learning experience and foundation for further progression. Attempts to progress in smartphone tech should always be applauded, regardless of company, because if successful will be widely implemented across all brands.
A very good example of this is how Apple was influenced in adopting larger screens because other brands progressed to the larger sizes and were successful. RIP <5’ screens.
You are forgetting Samsung as a company made record profit in 3rd quarter. Even if their smartphone business imploded (which I think is highly unlikely given the innovation that we can expect from the F and S10), Samsung will continue to do well if other phone makers do well since Samsung I'd supplying a lot of those components inside those phones including iPhones.