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Told you guys it was a gimmick. Just a dumb fad that people are foolishly buying into.

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  • [–] 6 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

    Tech Demos keep showing rollable screens, and those look way more interesting to me than foldable

    But all the demos are still not what I want, I'd want it to go from pager sized to feature phone sized

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  • [–] 36 points 17 hours ago

    Original gif:

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  • [–] 1 point 9 hours ago

    Lolnein has great animated songs btw. Including one for this comic

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  • [–] 1 point 9 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 child)

    Phone design peaked with the Blackberry Pearl and we've been straying further from God's light each day since.

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  • [–] 11 points 17 hours ago (7 children)

    Surely they at least thought about adding a thick border to prevent the screens from rubbing together, right?

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  • [–] 3 points 15 hours ago (6 children)

    The damage happens at the fold. Not sure anything can be done about that.

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  • [–] 3 points 13 hours ago (5 children)

    make a hinge that doesn't break and take out your fragile bendy screen?

    there is a korean video where it broke in the same spot, and the part of the hinge that broke was very thin.

    ffs, every other manufacturer has a fold phone, and none of them experience this high a failure rate, this quickly too.

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  • [–] 3 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

    ffs, every other manufacturer has a fold phone, and none of them experience this high a failure rate, this quickly too.

    We don't know what the failure rate is, as of yesterday there were "at least 10 different confirmed cases". And I remember Samsung also had similar issues on their first fold phone for example.

    Either way fold phones are stupid as far as I'm concerned and never should've been invented. Just another way to part idiots and their money.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 hours ago (2 children)

    Naw the 2025 Razr is pretty much perfect, I got it for $165 at release.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 hours ago

    The Sidekick was the perfect cell of cell phone design. I want it back and modernized.

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  • [–] 13 points 19 hours ago (6 children)

    ah that phone went a week without charging, which has as much to do with how much we used phones back as with how fast smart phones deplete battery.

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    [–] 56 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (11 children)

    It's amazing isn't it that this product category has been around for nearly a decade and then apple come in with their version of the product and its back to generation 1. The whole point of Apple waiting around is so they can steal everybody else's innovations.

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  • [–] 13 points 19 hours ago (6 children)

    They made a β€œbetter” hinge. Apparently that’s what’s failing and breaks the screen.

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  • [–] 2 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

    Which is hilarious because even their 'better hinge' tech is just a copy of the OPPO Find N's 3d resin smoothing idea.

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    [–] 188 points 1 day ago (48 children)

    We're like 10+ years past the point where new smartphone features were worth something. Now we're back to buying new phones because the last one finally died, not to upgrade.

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    [–] 47 points 1 day ago (31 children)

    I just want a phone that I can comfortably reach all points on with one thumb without having to juggle it about.

    So when foldables started getting attention i was hoping they’d make smaller phones that unfolded to have average sized screens.

    Instead we got average sized phones that unfold in to a tablet. Even the vertical folding ones are too wide.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 day ago (6 children)

    Drives me crazy how small phones died because "not enough demand" but a fragile gimmicky $2000 folding phone is perfectly commercially viable

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  • [–] 9 points 19 hours ago

    All tech is killing off budget options because of the increasing percentage of wealth owned by the top 1% who will just buy the most expensive option without regard for features or practicality.

    Small phones would be cheap and cheap phones break the illusion that 2000$ phones are normal.

    It has nothing to do with demand, it's just that the bottom 99% isn't a profitable market segment anymore.

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    [–] 5 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

    If they weren't a bazillion dollars I would love a tri-screen foldable (if it supported Graphene).

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    [–] 64 points 1 day ago (15 children)

    I love the clamshell form factor, but it should be two screens, not one delicate one stretched such that it will always show a crease and will fail after a year...

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