Samsung are about to release their 4th updated iteration of their Galaxy Flip and Fold lines which keeps improving, and Apple have yet to release or even announce the 1st version of their own foldable. Come on Apple, stop dilly dallying and release your own version, your getting left behind in terms of innovation and it does not look good!
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Samsung Teases New Foldable Smartphones Set to Debut at August 10 'Unpacked' Event
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So I ended up with a Galaxy Flip 3 from a family member who won it 😂. My thoughts (for those who may be considering switching when Samsung reveals the 4th gen):
- the folding screen is a gimmick, you basically get a normal sized phone that is shorter but thicker in your pocket. Need to quickly get a photo? This phone is 1 step more complicated. The Fold would be much more useful.
- the cover screen is essentially useless. There are widgets but for example the timer one lets you start the previously-set timer. Want to change it? Open the phone. Want to read a bit more of a notification? Open the phone. It even activated in my pocket with nothing else, playing music 😂.
- as others have remarked, the phone is too tall. For my hands it’s mostly OK but still.
- the folding screen is a gimmick, you basically get a normal sized phone that is shorter but thicker in your pocket. Need to quickly get a photo? This phone is 1 step more complicated. The Fold would be much more useful.
- the cover screen is essentially useless. There are widgets but for example the timer one lets you start the previously-set timer. Want to change it? Open the phone. Want to read a bit more of a notification? Open the phone. It even activated in my pocket with nothing else, playing music 😂.
- as others have remarked, the phone is too tall. For my hands it’s mostly OK but still.
Apple doesn't have the luxury of being truly innovative because no one accepts the teething pains of really innovative things when it comes to Apple products. Any small issue is turned into an overly dramatic #somethinggate. That is why Apple generally waits until technology is mature before incorporating it. People claim they want innovation from Apple when the truth is they want reliability, but you don't get first-to-market innovation AND reliability.
For example, most people who buy the Samsung Fold accept there will be a crease or line, but they would never accept that if they bought a the same thing from Apple so Apple has to wait until they solve that issue.
TL-DR - Samsung can release the Fold-1; Apple has to release the Fold-5.
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states stupid crap. I have two galaxy z folds and I love them. I upgrade from 2 to 3. I would never go back.
the iphone are good device but nothing compared to z fold. one person states that it was a gimmick. well this gimmick works great. I don't need to carry a stupid laptop where every I go. unlike iPhone, I can window run all my apps on the big screen or use dex. what can you do?
I can run Linux or I can run limbo with windows vm.
again what can you do? beside Facebook and social media crap. I can get real work done without a laptop. again I was an apple certified tech and I know apple bs that they tell world and you guys like the sheep believe it.
well keep on believing and I will get real work....
states stupid crap. I have two galaxy z folds and I love them. I upgrade from 2 to 3. I would never go back.
the iphone are good device but nothing compared to z fold. one person states that it was a gimmick. well this gimmick works great. I don't need to carry a stupid laptop where every I go. unlike iPhone, I can window run all my apps on the big screen or use dex. what can you do?
I can run Linux or I can run limbo with windows vm.
again what can you do? beside Facebook and social media crap. I can get real work done without a laptop. again I was an apple certified tech and I know apple bs that they tell world and you guys like the sheep believe it.
well keep on believing and I will get real work....
I tried the Fold 3 - found it too thick and the smaller screen offset not to my liking. Center the smaller screen and make it thinner. I did like the phone to mini tablet functionality. The S Pen works on it. Pretty cool.
Wife bought the Flip 3 and loves it. Has had no issues. Her only comment was the small screen should be a bit bigger.
Be good to see what Sam is up to this round.
You know, sometime ago it was said that apple users are genuinely happy with their devices and not concerned with samsung/android devices or their users. I'd say this notion was either disingenuous to begin with or has changed because most of these comments say everything but "apple users are genuinely happy with their devices and not concerned with samsung/android devices or their users."
Understand the frustation But apple won’t add it until there’s no crease and get the Dependability and get the right volume
If Apple ever does it’ll be later. Having used the flip 3, after getting over the cool aspect it’s the same thing as any other phone and battery life sucked. The flip is only innovative because it folds but that doesn’t really do anything useful other than make a cool tech demo. The fold may have more promise but the flip is pretty meh imo.
Yeah see I tried that but you basically have to shove your face close to the phone to see whats happening because at that point the screen is half the size it would be on a slab phone that you’re holding in your hands. All the more power to you if that’s useful to you but to me I’d rather just use a different device if I’m sitting down to have a video chat.
Chimed until Apple releases one and then the mantra is “it’s done better”.
Rinse and Repeat.
Knocking things before trying it, weird. I guess PiP video on iPhone is unwatchable or even on a tablet.
It’s a new product or a new model, no harm, it’s marketing and Apple does the same remember “The New iPad”.
What was that thing about phablets some years or so ago?
My wife uses hers for video and generally has it about 2 ft or so from what I have seen.
Seems to do okay with it.
She mostly got it for the size as it fits in her pockets and work jacket better than her previous Galaxy.
Works for her. Not something I would use.
You tried a new unreleased product that is the topic of discussion, got it 🤡
One folding phone is similar to all others just like a slab iPhone is similar to a slab Samsung, Google slab phone.
Nope, I don't think so. I don't like the thickness of the folded devices, and I use my phone on a bike so a folding phone would not work well IMO, in terms of specialty cases and mounts that I use.
As long as they keep offering normal style phones, the folded ones can be for the "I must have it" sheep.
Apart from phablets, there really hasn’t been another product category that can be credited to Samsung.
I would personally file the folding phone concept closer to curved screens (design trends which haven’t taken off) than larger screens.
Isn’t Apple rumoured to be working on a folding and/or rolling screen iPhone or another type of product. The question is whether it sees the light of day for mass public sale, only time will tell. Never say never.
I get that, but what happened to Steve Jobs Wayne Gretsky puck quote “Skate to where the puck is going, not where it has been.” At this moment in time with phones, Samsung are moving to where the Puck is going, not Apple.
I may have been living under a rock but last I heard they were expensive, had manufacturing issues, the screen tears and most people do not find a use for it, its not small enough to be a phone and not large enough to be a tablet. If truth is otherwise I do not know.