Just because OLED panels can be made to bend, doesn’t mean a device should fold in half.
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Hands-On With the $1,700 'OnePlus Open' Foldable Smartphone
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Other phone companies: try new form factors, increase RAM, faster refresh rates, flexible displays, and multi-tasking usability.
Apple: Use last years specs for this year's model.
Other phone companies: try new form factors, increase RAM, faster refresh rates, flexible displays, and multi-tasking usability.
Apple: Use last years specs for this year's model.
Something that has to be unfolded with that large of a screen it’s not a foldable phone more like a foldable tablet.
It is, and reliability of folding screens is probably one reason Apple is not ready to get into it.
Aside from that this OnePlus seems to be one of the best, if not the best, folding phones out there, looks really well executed. I'd be up for one if it ran iOS. I'm too invested in the Apple ecosystem to ever switch to Android, personal choice.
Nah. Remeber when everyone was saying how the 3.5-inch screen was the perfect sized and on this site everyone kept using the thumb image? Or how OLED would be inaccurate?
As soon as they come out with it, you'll see so many users claiming they don't remember. But we have receipts.
I can see the foldable phone be much more used than the Vision Pro. It 100% depends on the person and what they are looking for and are into.
It doesn't have to be unfolded, it has a full sized screen on the outside while closed.
Yet people don’t like VR/AR but seemed to be all excited for apple’s Vision Pros lol
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Shouldn't these phones be given away, because of all the tracking?
Imagine an iOS device that unfolds into an iPadOS device. I'd absolutely dig it.
we could turn around if the fiability is on point and if we get an ipadOS that turns into an 10" macOS
actually, Apple already had foldables.. iPads and iPhones, if you remember your history.
I want a device the size of an iPhone Pro Max when folded, and the size of an iPad mini when unfolded...
A smartphone for appropriate tasks, but able to unfold and become an on-the-go sketchpad/journaling device when needed...
Busted my pinkie toe on my right foot a number of times on the old Curtis Mathis floor console tv we had "back in the day"...!
A smartphone for appropriate tasks, but able to unfold and become an on-the-go sketchpad/journaling device when needed...
Busted my pinkie toe on my right foot a number of times on the old Curtis Mathis floor console tv we had "back in the day"...!
After years of basically the same iPhone with a new and better camera electronics package, and given how I have to use two hands to use the iPhone I have anyway, I have to admit that a new form factor looks interesting, which would give me more screen space for the same two-handed usage.
I'd buy that phone from Apple, if they made one, but if they don't, it does make me start to ask what is keeping me on an iPhone, other than the sticky ecosystem.
I'd buy that phone from Apple, if they made one, but if they don't, it does make me start to ask what is keeping me on an iPhone, other than the sticky ecosystem.
You write like someone who's ever tried one.
Except when Apple makes one, right?
Until they can figure out how to have a good case on it I'm not interested, either make a rugged phone that the bumpers are built in or some better solution
Might not buy one the first releases - I’ll give it some time.
But I found them more inspiring then the Vision Pro.
But I found them more inspiring then the Vision Pro.
I have not seen the appeal of them myself, but from a different perspective I see the value. As a folding phone, no thanks - I want a small and light as possible. I want maximal portability. As a folding tablet however, it is intriguing. Its the 'about the size of an ipad mini' that catches me. I could see the value in folding an ipad in half for transport, after all, it it really that much different from folding a laptop up for transport?
Funny how we all still have fingers. Holding a tablet is different than a phone. Thin bezels on a table are a net negative.
Yes! That's my new phone! I can't wait for it to arrive next week.