Wonder how they'll do with the multi-dimensional foldy phone in 2032

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hydration9806 @lemmy.ml

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New Samsung Origami phone. Each fold is a new dimension of value!
- Fold your phone in to a paper plane to enter airplane mode. It won't stop you from receiving calls, but it will look badass when your $2000 Samsung phone makes it several feet down the cul-de-sac
  
  Damn, I misunderstood. I thought the airplane fold was just to increase the aerodynamics when you need to throw your on-fucking-fire phone because Samsung somehow found a way to hold the distinction of designing the first phone banned on flights across the globe due to catching on fucking fire. Imagine how cool that burning airplane (phone/firework hybrid) looks though!
  Continues to baffle me that Samsung did their damnedest to go out of business with making all sorts of shit catch on fire for a few years and everyone went "meh, it's shiny tho"

I had a folding phone back in the day. I think they're called feature phones now. I preferred it over my Nokia because it was harder to accidentally call someone or make weird noises.

- In order to call your mom, you have to:
  Pick a color
  Pick a number
  Pick a number
  Pick a number
  No, not that number, Nora just did that and it's not funny to get the same one twice
  Okay, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5... Flips open page
  You're a turd
  Wanna try again?

Four-dimensional hyperphone

Glad we're finally moving away from the featureless black rectangle era, might even pick up a foldable once the price drops.
- Right‽ Lmao, for years:
  Everyone: The slab is so boring! Why can't they just innovate!
  
  Holly shit, I didn't know that interrobang symbol existed in utf-8.
  
  I like innovation, but i had 15 different people in my circle with a folding phone from Samsung and they all had constant issues.
  Innovation does need to be good imo.

No sane person buys a foldy phone, unless they completely fix the issue of it breaking because it got folded.

Or just use a normal phone that costs third as much. Or just use a pocket laptop if thats what you need because those can run linux and windows.

I don't know why people bother to buy foldable phones, if you want bigger screen just buy tablet....smh...
Tablet has bigger screen plus it's cheaper than buying foldable phones
- Tablet doesn't fit in my pocket.
  
  Buy a larger pocket. Easy.
- I have a foldy phone, I'm never going back.
  if you want bigger screen just buy tablet....smh
  I did, multiple times, sooo many times in all manner of price points, sizes, brands and even OSs (I've got fucking Windows tablets WITH cellular FFS just chilling in archive). Do you know what happened to them? They started collecting dust within a couple weeks
  I don't want to carry multiple devices, even when I do want to I can never get the habit to stick, so I never have the tablet when I need it the most
  My foldy phone solves that issue immediately, it's a phone when I need a phone and a tablet when I need a tablet.
  
  I'm just curious
  Does the screen vertical folding bulge area (idk if it has its own name) somehow get in the way during day-by-day usage?
  
  Do you have one of those who fold along the longer side or the shorter one?
  
  I tried a pixel 9 fold for a little while, it was neat but way overpriced for the novelty, and there are no cases worth a damn that aren't attached entirely by glue strips. Returned it and got a pixel 9 XL instead.
  If they can make one with the same width/height as the XL (big hands, too many typos on the small screen keyboard), for under 1500, id probably go for it
- Why have a phone with a screen? Just use your computer if you need it, smh 🤦
  Why have a phone at all? Just ask a friend to use theirs if you need it 🤷‍♂️ or maybe write a fucking letter for once? Damn kids...
  
  Why have a friend at all?
  going to my basement
  
  Why have a computer when you can just use one at the library? smh
  
  I only contact people via my QRP rig, CW mode. Don't talk to me unless you have a valid HAM licence.
- Bigger screen and fits in my pocket.
- tablet screen size is okay, but really the people who want bigger screens should be buying tvs. not to mention they have the advantage of being cheaper than tablets. but even tv screens can only get so big. a really cost effective way to get a big screen would just be to go to a movie theater. that’s like 10 dollars(?) for 2 hours of access to a huge screen.
- I have the same question about tablets. A tablet to me is like a laptop without anything good about a laptop.
- I guess you have to try one. I got a samsung fold 3, i loved it. Then, when my contract ended, i got a fold 6. I would have a hard time going back to a standard phone tbh.
  My wife said she wouldnt get a folding phone but when i got my fold 6 i offered her my fold 3. She ended up really liking it and wants to get a newer fold when her contract ends.
  So theres me, who knew i wanted one and am happy with it to the point where i cant go back. And my wife, who didnt want one but after trying one for a few weeks, said she got it now and would be upgrading to a newer fold when the time comes.
  They need to get these in peoples hands if they want to sell them better.
  
  If I want a bigger screen, I'm reaching for a laptop or desktop, not a phone with a self-destructing screen. I expect my gear to last at least 5 years, preferably 10.
- I have similar question: Why did Samsung bother with developing foldable phones? It isn't selling as well as they thought, after all.
- Word.
  Phone for, uh, phone stuff, while I'm out and about. Pixel 4a, $70 on eBay.
  PC and TV screen for internet.
  Crappy $25 tablet for reading epubs.
  Lemmy: NO! I want all my use cases on ONE device that doesn't do any of them well!
  OK, pay out the ass for it along with the associated global warming and ecosystem trashing. Oh, and the slave labor that took to produce it.
  Lemmy: NO! Not like that!

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