Who isn't relaxed? I'm giving some perspective to the people acting like this is insane innovation. It doesn't exist and Apple doesn't make a habit of showing prototypes.
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Xiaomi Reveals Dual-Folding Flexible Phone in Teaser Video
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No need. The whole point is that you can use it as a phone while it's folded.
That's an iOS problem. Perhaps why such devices will hit Android first.
Would be a bargain considering the Samsung foldable is expected to be around the same cost.
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Agree, that’s more along the lines of what I would consider one day, but it would need to be a whole lot thinner than prototypes out there right now. Setting myself up here, but if you could take the thickness of the new iPad Pro, smaller screen, make that foldable with some sort of innovative hinge, maybe use magnets in the four corners to protect each screen from touching, and obviously optimize the software for at least a few years, that would be something I could see selling.
The phone doesn't have a case. Would dropping this folding phone damage it? Especially the exposed edges.
I like it fully open. Folding it is just to put it in the jacket pocket.
What about a Mac mini size device you could roll to put in the jacket pocket or bend it around the wrist.
I like it fully open. Folding it is just to put it in the jacket pocket.
What about a Mac mini size device you could roll to put in the jacket pocket or bend it around the wrist.
Gota agree, it's cool tech and I'm sure has some great potential but for a phone I'd rather have the simple and durable solid bar design.
Introducing the new iPhone Folding, the best iPhone ever, just starting from $2999. it will be shipped in 2 years, yeah~~~~~~
That is the singularly most dope piece of tech ever. Yes please, and it looks so clean. Kudos to Xaomi
Foldable screens still have to deal with basic physics. There's no practical use for these that eclipse the inherent problems that won't be possible to overcome.
Now rigid hinged panels ala the westward concept are a much more exciting and plausible proposition.
[doublepost=1548307649][/doublepost]Simply put, folding and unfolding any material is extremely stressful and there's really only two materials where it is viable repeatedly without stress visible to the human eye over time: silk and pleated polyester. Find out how to make a screen out of either and this becomes viable. (hint: it won't)
https://www.researchgate.net/public...BIOMIMETICS_AS_MATERIAL_THINKING_IN_ORIBOTICS
Now rigid hinged panels ala the westward concept are a much more exciting and plausible proposition.
[doublepost=1548307649][/doublepost]Simply put, folding and unfolding any material is extremely stressful and there's really only two materials where it is viable repeatedly without stress visible to the human eye over time: silk and pleated polyester. Find out how to make a screen out of either and this becomes viable. (hint: it won't)
the subject of origami for paper, or bending for metal or plastics. Folding and unfolding
ad infinitum is a vastly different problem. Metal hinges offer a possible solution, but for
a complex folding pattern the engineering process is overly complex, and hinged
mechanisms can accumulate friction, requiring a large amount of actuation forc
ad infinitum is a vastly different problem. Metal hinges offer a possible solution, but for
a complex folding pattern the engineering process is overly complex, and hinged
mechanisms can accumulate friction, requiring a large amount of actuation forc
https://www.researchgate.net/public...BIOMIMETICS_AS_MATERIAL_THINKING_IN_ORIBOTICS
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Of course not. Apple knows better and it is smarter than that. Apple isn't usually about being first! Companies who rush with new technologies to be the first, usually end up with crap first gen products.
I really can not imagine anything like this coming out of Apple within the next 10 years. They move too slow.
Will there be much weight gain on this ? Will this make it a two handed operation when it’s fully open as I think phones inherently should be usable single handed... I’m happy to wait to see it in the flesh but at the moment it seems a solution to a problem I don’t have.
You’re right, Apple neeeeeever introduces ground breaking products that change life as we know it. Nope. That always been
Wildy applying a technology to solve a problem that doesn’t exist isn’t courage—it’s misguided. Having the balls to broom a 100 year old technology to make room for progress is the very definition of stones. And that fact that the rest of the industry is following them is proof.
Raw, raw, very raw...still in it's infancy, back looks horrible, even more with display on, which should be off in folded mode.
But, I am excited. In 2-3 years, this is gonna be mainstream.
But, I am excited. In 2-3 years, this is gonna be mainstream.
And yet, they’ve created THE category defining product in multiple, massive new technology categories over the past 40 years that have changed life as we know it:
Apple II (first PC)
Macintosh (first user friendly PC with GUI)
LaserWriter (first networked printer)
Apple Talk (game changer)
iMac (game changer)
iPod (first of its kind, standard by which all others were measured)
iTunes (changed music, saved music industry from Napster)
iPhone (changed everything. on earth.)
iPad (first and still best)
Apple Watch (redefined the level of integration a smart watch could have, redefining healthcare, dominates the category)
AirPods (once again redefined a young category with the singular W1 chip that no other company could compete with, now the gold standard for mainstream users, they were the smallest earbuds with the best wireless connectivity at a time when existing earbuds were huge, cost $250-$350, and were buggy as hell)
Has Apple been perfect? Hardly. But to fantasize that Apple hasn’t been the most consistently innovative, game changing tech company at the forefront of new ideas for over the past 40 years is pure fantasy. Statements like yours are useless because they value cheap cynicism over the actual truth.
I'm glad you ask that because Apple ditched the floppy at a time when everyone was still using mainly floppy – aka. 3 or 4 years too early. Same deal with the headphone jack now.
That’s precisely the point! They led. Somehow we survived (I bought a cheap floppy drive to tide me over) and Apple grew. Amazing! And now no one uses floppies. They saw that future coming and pushed us there. Just as the near future will involve no 3.5mm ports. And eventually no wires at all.
You don’t lead by waiting until everyone else is doing what you know is right for the future. That’s called following. But I guess that doesn’t stop people from complaining that Apple doesn’t innovate. They do, just not how is suits complainers’ pet issues. FaceID is amazing tech, but people complain about the notch that contains it. Wires are going away, but people complain that they’re not ready. I say get an adapter and face the future.
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You don’t get it. It wasn’t “too early”.
It’s not like changing away from floppies was inevitable, scheduled for a certain date. The industry changed a few years later because Apple led the way. They are the catalysts that help make change happen. Left to their own devices, the rest of the industry generally needs to be dragged kicking and screaming toward changes in standards.
Changing was definitely inevitable. If you study the history of computer storage all the way from punch cards and magnetic tape up to SSD storage, you will see that there are major innovations every decade or so. Apple definitely ditched the floppy too early. They just caused their users some inconvenience for a couple of years until the rest of the industry "caught up".
Same thing is happening now with USB-C and the headphone jack. I go to IT meetups all the time and always there is someone with a new MBP not being able to connect it to the projector and nobody has an adapter with them.
