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Thanks. Same for Voyager.
oops. thanks
I only know one guy who has a folding smartphone. It’s broken now. What a stupid idea.
It’s a great idea. I have the Motorola razr 2024 and it’s a horizontal hinge like a normal flip phone instead of a vertical one. It’s compact and I can use 100% of the smart phone features without even opening it. It’s the ultra compact smart phone I’ve been searching for for years.
This seems like the better direction. I’d rather have a phone that turns into a pocket watch than a tablet that turns into a phone.
Now you know two who’ve had one. I’m typing on my Galaxy Z Flip3, which I bought in December 2021. No problems yet.
- Pixel fold here. Entire last week I opened it once.
I have quite literally never used the front screen on my galaxy fold 4. I hear the pixel has a more regular proportioned front screen.
The cover screen in my Flip3 is basically useless. It tells me the time. So I open the Phone every time I use it, dozens on times a day. It would be an under exaggeration to say mine’s been opened and closed 13,000 times since I’ve owned it.
I’ve also hard dropped it (waist-high, onto concrete, 3 or 4 times, and I’ve never had it in a case. I’ve always dropped it closed, though, and I think that’s contributed to how well it’s survived. If it had a bigger outside screen like the newer models, something may have broken by now.
Yeah, external screen is just like using a regular smart phone. Normal size and aspect ratio amoled.
Just sold my Samsung galaxy z fold 4. After a year of owning it, it stopped opening completely flat. Went back to my S21 Ultra which is generally just a better device.
Same, lasted about a year and a half at most. Was replaced with non folding.
My wife has a z flip 6 and it works great. She had a 3 previously and never had any issues either
Wife has one and she loves it.
The ones I’ve seen end up with a big crease in the screen. Not enticing.
I think it’s a fantastic idea. Wanted one since Samsung showed an S4(?) clamshell.
But they still have too many issues for me. I look forward to when it’s a standard thing, so the OS and apps work correctly.
At about a year and a half now with my Z Fold 5. Echoing many of the others here. Still works great, opens flat, and I never want go back to a non-foldable.
Love my z fold 6. Getting the first foldable phone…yeah that would be questionable but they worked it out I think. I love mine.
I like my zfold 6, but the main downside is that it’s made by Samsung. They’ve switched to a locked down bootloader over the past few years and you can’t get GrapheneOS or LineageOS to run on it.
Because of this, once software updates stop being supported by Samsung, the phone increasingly become a security liability. Meanwhile my old S10e does support these 3rd party OS’s so I can theoretically keep using it safely for several more years
Completely agree that’s the rub. Samsung product.
Good idea, bad execution, at least at the start but I think they’ve improved a lot.
Work had me procure flips and folds for QA. I got to briefly and test drive them before I handed them over.
I expected to flip to be useless in the fold to be drool worthy for having a mini tablet sized screen
I carried the fold for a few days, having screens even in candy bar mode meant that I was constantly worried about scratching it and it just had fingerprints everywhere all the time
It was uncomfortable to unfold it, and the aspect ratio was wrong for a lot of applications and websites.
The flip however folded up into a clamshell and fit right in my pocket like old days.
For the price, there’s no way in hell I’m buying either but… Having a cell phone easily fitting in a pocket’s pretty fucking cool
Having a cell phone easily fitting in a pocket’s pretty fucking cool
A Terminator model T-1000 could fold, too.
I’ve broken so many of those old flip phones. the hinges were always some flimsy cheaply made shit causing the phone to break in two.
I had one moto razr and I did phone flip tricks with it all the time. If it didn’t get dropped into the depths of the inlet while paddle boarding I’d still be fiddling with it
My Nextel i930 lasted forever. Still in a drawer somewhere
Yes, but at what cost. Oh, $1500USD more than the flip phone. I mean, that’s like totally affordable.
The Song from Lolnein Its a YouTube vid (noting for all those that want to use their other front ends).
Newer phones abandoned physical key. That’s their demise and able to fold won’t save them.
