How does everyone here feel about foldable phones?
How does everyone here feel about foldable phones?
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Well, as promised, we are talking foldable this week. The excitement is palpable, and it looks like the rest of our mod team have already started the conversation here. Go check it out.
I honestly don't know very much about foldable phones, so I'll let the rest of our (very smart and knowledgeable) mod team handle this one this week. :)
Last thing for future reference at the end of the week, we also have a great thread discussing foldables here too, go check it out if you want more great discussions.
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I'm still not sold on the displays. Every time I've seen one the promise has always been "the screen is better", but when eventually I get hands on with them all I see is a massive crease in the middle and I can't unsee it
Some points you can't really refute are cost and repairability. Yes, they're expensive and yes, they're quite difficult to repair, there's no getting around that. One thing you don't have to worry about is the screen though. I'm not sure what people have told you about it being "better," because at this point most phone screens are pretty incredible; great brightness, contrast, oled, 120hz. Where foldables do shine is content consumption. I use my phone A LOT. And trust me when I say that the experience is pretty unparalleled. Multitasking, large video streams, gaming, browsing Reddit and now Lemmy were all absolutely incredible experiences and I can never go back to a slab phone. I bought both the 14 pro max and the pixel 7 pro to try to come back but it's just not the same at all.
And the crease thing 100% disappears after 1 hour of using it. A lot of people hear about the crease, decide they don't like it, try to have a hands on, see the crease and focus solely on it the whole time saying to themselves, I hate the crease, why would anyone buy this. It's analogous to when apple did the notch; tech people were like what the fuck is apple doing, why are they making phones so ugly, I use that part of the screen, Samsung made mocking ads about it. And now every phone on the market has some variant of it because people learned it's really not a big deal. Your fingers never go in the middle of the screen to feel it and as long as you have your phone on like 10% brightness it will wash out the crease from being apparent if you look at it dead on.
Trust, next time you're at best buy check out Google or Samsung's offerings. The phones are incredible.
I actually find it quite nice to fidget with the crease. Like when im scrolling in portrait mode ill use my index finger and move up the crease. Its one of those weird things people do. I like caressing the crease 😜