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Reviewers' Motorola Razr displays are already breaking and peeling at the fold after one week
- Thread starter RastaMentality
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It worked out for Samsung when they made some of the first phablets. While the Pixel hasn't been selling great pretty much everyone loved the camera and it pushed Apple to be better.
Shame I thought it looked cool (not $1400 cool). The Samsung Flip looks like the way to go with the foldable glass and more robust design. I just wish it had a usable back display instead of an oLED strip.
The screen is plastic. It's not glass like they say it is. It scratches just as easily as any plastic screen.
The issue is, there isn't any display tech out right now (that we know of) that can withstand the constant stress of being folded over and over again. Unless someone invents a screen that's practically impervious to damage these devices will wear out pretty quickly.
Every major phone manufacturer makes a new phone every year. iPhones have much better resale value and a history of receiving updates for a long time and great build quality. So this whole comment makes no sense.
didn't samsung just release or is releasing insanely soon yet again another folder phone similar to this?
I fully expect more issues because its just way to damn early for this tech to be introduced. Seems like phone companies are having a hard time giving excsuses to have people upgrade and are trying anything they can to get people to upgrade to something...."new"
I fully expect more issues because its just way to damn early for this tech to be introduced. Seems like phone companies are having a hard time giving excsuses to have people upgrade and are trying anything they can to get people to upgrade to something...."new"
Shocking!
This tech isn't nearly as ready as the manufacturers would like to think, as well as the demand for it. Almost nobody wants a $1.5-2K phone just because it folds.
Also, I don't see how is it possible to get around that folding crease in the middle of the screen? That's such a huge fucking turn off from this tech. I want a perfectly fine looking screen thank you
This tech isn't nearly as ready as the manufacturers would like to think, as well as the demand for it. Almost nobody wants a $1.5-2K phone just because it folds.
Also, I don't see how is it possible to get around that folding crease in the middle of the screen? That's such a huge fucking turn off from this tech. I want a perfectly fine looking screen thank you
That just proves my point. Apple pretty much controls the entire tablet market because they just do everything better.
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In regards to tablets, yeah.
In other markets though I think they still have some competition from the other big tech companies. Just look at the smart speaker market.
Oh yeah, completely forgot about that thing. Hopefully it does release this year.
Cell phones are small enough that they don't need to fold.
I can maybe see this being appealing for big tablets, but that would require a 3 way fold which doesn't sound feasible.
I'm sorry what? Apple controls the majority of the table market because the margins on it were awful for everyone who wasn't Apple thanks to Amazon, and Microsoft couldn't wrap it's head about what it wanted to do with Windows. Even iPad was struggling to gain market share until Apple aggressively released the model that cost only $329.
lol at the incredulity in here over the very idea of a folding phone. As if the slabs you're using now will just be gone entirely when you wake up one day. Your slabs and folding phones can co-exist. It may seem strange, but other people can actually prefer something different than you.
Yeah I would take that. Not in a hurry to change to that but it seems like this would be the best route.
And because they are high quality and no one else does em better. If you think they control the market based on cost alone, you would be wrong.
hmmm, not sure i agree with that, the ipad starting being taken very seriously with the ipad 2.
I think people would be okay with it if it wasn't complete shit that failed easily and cost a fortune.
Without tactile feedback it'd be tough to get people used to it but I think we'd manage. The tech is nowhere near ready but companies dabbling in gesture based inputs are a step in the right direction.
There are plenty of posters here questioning why anyone should be doing this at all.
For a period of time sure, but there were plenty of stories about iPad sales flatlining around the release of the iPad Air.
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The consistent best selling iPad is the cheapo one with outdated specs. Which is fine, it's still a good product, but you aren't gonna see someone try to disrupt the tablet market at this point for the meager margins of a product that is generally super cost sensitive.
Tablets quickly became a niche market a little after that. Laptops got smaller and phones got bigger which killed a lot of the demand for tablets. That and MS's success with the Surface are probably what's pushing Apple to make the iPad a laptop competitor.
I don't really see much incredulity over the idea of folding phones, as much as in the way they have implemented so far. It's hard not to feel like these companies are using pre baked "folding" tech as a desperate bullet point to try and spur sales.
This is why I think the design of the Surface Duo/Neo is the way to go.
Will still have to see if Apple/Corning get a good thing going with their folding glass design, but I have always felt like the two-screen solution is best here.
Why call it Cook's Apple? Almost as bad as Cupertino lol.
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Yeah, folding phones seem to be a bust. This is a shame.
Hopefully someone nails this tech eventually, because a folding phone solves one of my biggest issues with modern smartphones.
