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Apple Foldable iPhone Launch Faces Delay Until 2026, Faces Design Roadblocks (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
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Apple's rumoured foldable iPhone (possibly iPhone Flip) might launch in 2026, but display crease, and design are roadblocks.

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[+] 65 points 2 years ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (21 children)
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  • [–] 58 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Bin this and bring back the mini so we can have a proper small form factor phone

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If the foldable is the form factor of a mini, how would that go over?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Either is better than a 7” inch phone like the Pro Max. But I don’t know how reliable the flip form factor is yet.

    I had the first gen razer before my current mini and it stopped working after about 6 months of use. It just stopped reading touch input after flipping it shut one day.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Speak for yourself... I'm hoping google comes out with a flip phone Pixel. If I was an iPhone person this is exactly what I'd be hoping for.

    I want a phone that folds up to be smaller than a normal phone so I don't have to have giant bricks in my pocket.

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  • [+] -10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)
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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I’d buy this in a heartbeat lol

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    But why?

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I love the idea of it but I have to agree, it's just less repairable and causes even more e-waste. Smartphone advancement is at a point where we could easily be using the same device for at least 8 years, but not if they come with planned obsolescence as a feature.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    I have the Samsung foldable (flip 4). It's a nice gimmic, but does apple really want to force app developers to support yet another form factor? That's supposedly one of the draws of apple development: you don't have to support every random screen size made by some third party.

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