"a few" ... it literally cuts the length in half. For me personally, something like this is much desired. Having a 3x3x.5" block vs a 6x3x.25" block would be a major improvement.
Which I'm totally okay with. In some of my clothes my pockets are doing gymnastics to try and fit the giant brick (because the phone is a long as the full length of my pocket). If you don't have/like baggy pockets, these huge screen, long phones are a huge pain.
Having it be "twice as thick" means it's about as thick as my wallet (and I have no complaints with that).
What? That's the dumbest thing. Of course it's going to be twice as thick if you fold it. Everything is. Water is wet and the sky is blue. No shit.
If they made a 6mm folded iPhone and the current iPhone is 8.5mm. that's actually an improvement over a previous gen iPhone and that is actually useful information.
My thoughts exactly. I gain almost nothing with this design change, as compared to keeping the current or similar-to “bar” form and folding out from there.
I’m starting to have visions of Zoolander and his ridiculously small cell phone..