Huawei Aims to Upstage Sep 9 Apple Event With Tri-Fold Phone Debut

[Nugget]

This whole discussion reminds me of when the MacRumors community made fun of all those giant Android “phablet” phones right up until the moment that Apple released one themselves.

The benefits of a folding phone are obvious to me and I look forward to the day that Apple engineering produce one that works with their production scale and market risk tolerance.

 

[sw1tcher]

Huawei: Where spyware comes as a bonus with every purchase.​

Has there even been solid proof of Huawei phones having mal/spyware installed on them at the factory?

 

[Abazigal]

This whole discussion reminds me of when the MacRumors community made fun of all those giant Android “phablet” phones right up until the moment that Apple released one themselves.

The benefits of a folding phone are obvious to me and I look forward to the day that Apple engineering produce one that works with their production scale and market risk tolerance.

Or maybe folding phones remain just that - a niche product category more akin to curved displays than larger screens, and Apple is no worse off for not entering this product category.

 

[Shirasaki]

Can't innovate MY AERS!

Apple will introduce a folding phone 10 years from now. It'll be called the iOrigami. It will mark the return of touch ID and the elimination of dynamic island.

The screen refresh rate will still be 60Hz. The big news will be the Apple Watch "Foldra", a portmanteau of Ultra and fold. It'll have an amazing 5 day battery life and both will run the latest version of Android OS via something called "poop camp". The watch will fold out into a 5" diagonal screen. It still won't' measure your pulse ox though due to a patent dispute.

All of this will work on the amazing new 6G network from Verizon Wireless that will only be available in 3 special spots in your local downtown, but only if you hold the antenna "right". However, VZW's coverage map will show you have full coverage in your entire metro area and that spot in the mountains where bears mate twice a year.

Funniest comment I have seen so far Today. Likes it.

 

[heretiq]

Which folding phones have you owned? I've owned the Z Fold 3, 4, 5, 6, the Z Flip 4, the Pixel Fold, and the OnePlus Open...with my Pixel 9 Pro Fold and Honor Magic V3 Global arriving tomorrow. I've never had an issue with the inner or outer display on any of the foldables I've owned and I don't even put a case on them. Also, the crease is as close to invisible on phones like the OnePlus Open and Honor Magic V3 as physics will allow at this point. It's really not a crease on these phones, because if you took the display off there would be no bend in the display. There is a very slight valley, I guess I would call it, running up the middle of the display where there is no hardware behind it like there is under the rest of the inner display. There is nothing anyone can do about that at this time. Someday, maybe, but I'm not sure how they can get hardware behind the screen in the middle and still allow it to fold without damage. You'd have to implement a tiny piston system that could push a plate or some other piece of hardware up to prevent the valley. The squeeze wouldn't be worth the juice here in my opinion, because I never notice this valley on my OnePlus Open.

Serious question: Why have you gone through so many folding phones?

 

[Shirasaki]

Has there even been solid proof of Huawei phones having mal/spyware installed on them at the factory?

Well, at this point it’s mostly just political Given its super close ties to CCP, much like Samsung to South Korea.
Maybe security firms will have a better idea.

 

[HobeSoundDarryl]

I want a phone you can wad up like a crumpled piece of paper.

The GOV gathered all of that magic material up at Roswell in '47.

 

[JoeMaj]

A foldable iPad maybe, a foldable iPhone, not for me. I have two friends that own the foldable Galaxy Z and the noticeable crease would drive me crazy. Even if Apple were to sell a foldable iPad, the crease would have to be invisible or I wouldn't want one.

 

[Gaprofitt]

A foldable iPad maybe, a foldable iPhone, not for me. I have two friends that own the foldable Galaxy Z and the noticeable crease would drive me crazy. Even if Apple were to sell a foldable iPad, the crease would have to be invisible or I wouldn't want one.

You don't even notice the crease, kinda like the island...

 

[blazerunner]

Apple is really missing the boat with foldables just like they missed the boat with AI. The current leadership has no vision. Vision Pro is a dead-end.

LMFAO!! And you have the entire MacRumors forum parading about it like it was going to have some kind of cultural impact like the iPod.

NO.

Tony Northrup said it best;

"I don't give a f**k! I do not give a f**k about the Apple Vision Pro! It will have NO impact on photographer or videographers. ... Here's what I learned about photography; convenience always trumps quality. Almost all of us (used to) hold cameras horizontally, but since the success of Instagram / Tiktok, more and more of us are viewing photos vertically, so we have to turn our cameras. The people consuming your photos and video are willing to sacrifice significant amounts of quality so they can hold a phone vertically instead of horizontally.

Do you think those people are going to be willing to wear heavy, sweaty, expensive headsets? NO. They are embarrassing, they are cringey, they're overpriced, they're uncomfortable."

The entire MacRumors staff, and the majority of people Apple fanboys need a HARD reality check on their ridiculous allegiance to a BRAND.

Source:

 

[SactoGuy18]

I think it's only now that Apple is starting to get foldable displays that meet Apple's strict standards. Hence the reason why I think Apple is within two years of offering a foldable iPhone.

 

[iMac The Knife]

Serious question: Why have you gone through so many folding phones?

Because unlike a lot of people out there, I like to experience different devices first hand, then I can give an honest review. I try a few out each year to help determine the one I like the best and then I keep that one for my daily phone.

 

[rme]

Apple is really missing the boat with foldables just like they missed the boat with AI. The current leadership has no vision. Vision Pro is a dead-end.

They should re-hire Sculley.

 

[HobeSoundDarryl]

Whenever I see "folding phone" I instantly think "point of failure."

They keep trying to make folding phone happen. Stop trying to make folding phone happen.

There was a time not too long ago when Apple clung to 3.5" and then 4" as "perfect" phone sizes... when someone might have posted...

Whenever I see phablet phones, I instantly think "abomination."

They keep trying to make giant phones happen. Stop trying to make giant phones happen.

And then Apple went phablet and I'd ask ALL of the people who ever bashed phablet-sizes before Apple embraced them: what's in your pocket?

At some point, I suspect Apple rolls out a fold/roll/other phone. Why do I think the reaction will be much like how quickly "we" flipped from detesting phablets to loving them... from seeing no point of phablet sizes to ridiculing "how did we ever get by with those puny screens"... etc. I'm still looking for all these people wearing pants with bigger pockets or carrying man purses... and WOW: how those one hands must have magically grown for the all-important, one-handed-use (at the time).

The point: before Apple embraces a new thing, we seem to hate it and have a pile of reasons why whatever it is makes absolutely no sense at all. And then Apple goes there and our very passionate opinions seem to flip overnight. Are hybrid phones/tablets in ONE device really as bad as is always written in every thread about them... or will we feel completely different about them once Apple offers one? TBD (but I would bet heavily on one answer).

 

[blazerunner]

I do not want or need a foldable phone ... ever... i could not care less.
My first phone ever was foldable (2002). Was called a Motorola and sucked major league.

Is someone forcing you to buy one?

I do not want or need an iPhone ... ever ... I could not care less. But I don't feel like it's being shoved down my throat. Can you explain why you're so angry about the existence of folding phones?

 

[heretiq]

Because unlike a lot of people out there, I like to experience different devices first hand, then I can give an honest review. I try a few out each year to help determine the one I like the best and then I keep that one for my daily phone.

Thanks for the explanation. So, which phone do you use as your daily phone?

 

[LIVEFRMNYC]

Because bi-folding phones are doing so well.

They are not doing bad though. Foldables are increasing in sales every year. I see plenty of folds and flips in the wild.

 

[AdamHarbour]

Because bi-folding phones are doing so well.

Cause the Mac Pro is doing so well !! Think about it ……

 

[TracerAnalog]

Has there even been solid proof of Huawei phones having mal/spyware installed on them at the factory?

No. Samsung however…

 

[now i see it]

Apple Event: “This is the best iPhone we’ve ever made”

Huawei Event: “This is the best smartphone we’ve ever made”

 

[iMac The Knife]

Thanks for the explanation. So, which phone do you use as your daily phone?

You're welcome! Right now I use my OnePlus Open daily. It is so good to this day that I even returned my Z Fold 6 because it felt like a downgrade. I'm getting a Pixel 9 Pro Fold and Honor Magic V3 Global tomorrow. I believe one of these will replace my OnePlus Open, but time will tell.

 

[PsykX]

You haven't looked in a while then.

A "while" ?

The Honor Magic V3 looks like perhaps the only phone that meets some of my criteria, yet it is still only available in China as of today and is going to be released elsewhere this week.

The Honor Magic V3 is only 5 grams heavier than the iPhone 15PM and it is two devices in one. Also, the Honor Magic V3 is only 1mm thicker than an iPhone 15PM when folded. Being that they are two devices in one, the cost is actually less than if you were to buy both the comparable versions of an iPhone and an iPad Mini, so cost shouldn't be a factor if you use both an iPhone and an iPad Mini often.

Cool, technology is getting there slowly.
Someday Apple will be able to fuse an iPhone with an iPad, then it might become interesting.
But right now, I'm still not interested.

In the end, Honor is a company with a short track record.
Its parent company Huawei is a company I completely distrust.
They're using Android.
But they're not using stock Android, which means you'll have to wait before Huawei and/or Honor "customizes it" into MagicOS until you can benefit.
Which also means we don't know if it'll be supported for 7 years like what Apple does generally (like my iPhone XR which is currently running iOS 18).
Its processor is currently quite a bit inferior to the A17 Pro released last year, which means it should be remarkably inferior to the A18 Pro.

Apple is doing the right thing to wait another 1-2 years before this tech is ready to put in an iPhone.

 

[squirrellydw]

Blow China and Huawei off the map, nothing but communists

 

[arthurgd3]

Available basically nowhere on September 15th

Depends on your idea of nowhere, China is the largest cell phone market in the world but if this remains exclusive there then yes, biggest market or not, China is still only 1 country.

 

[User #07242024]

I admire the dedication.