Why have just one additional failure point when you can have two?
I like my phones like my katana: folded one bazillion times for superior durability
For those with Samsung folds (4,5,6) that want a solid phone case that has the ability to just barely stick on a magsafe sticker, look here. I’m in Taiwan but you guys can probably find it in America somewhere. It’s a Korean brand.
I have dropped my phone from a moving motorcycle going 45mph and the phone was not damaged. I have used this brand case for 3 Fold generations.
The link goes to a Taiwan’s ebay equivalent. No affiliate link. Just wanted to share my experience with a amazing case.
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Can’t wait to go full circle (literally) and have a fully flexible scroll phone 📜
Oh I want to open a scroll like that dramatically
You laugh, but there are some OLEDs out there that can do it. Not scaled down to phone size yet, though.
I’m just waiting for someone to make a shirt out of those so I can have sick ass animated designs.
Yeah I know, and am actually semi-serious xD
I think this video is reposted but there’s this which is a phone sized flexible OLED ‘trading card’ type thing:
They’ve been putting super flexible screens in phones for years. They’re usually just sandwiched in glass for protection.
That’s how we got all those curved bezelless displays.
that’s interesting! I didn’t know that, thanks!
are we gonna get into the more folds = better logic now?
Phone case manufacturers just now figuring out good design for “Traditional” foldy devices
Source? I have a folding phone and every case I’ve seen or used is super frustrating
Which one? I have a Poetic Spartan for my Pixel 9 pro fold and it’s been fantastic, I don’t even use the stupid adhesive strips lol
9 Fold also. The case I have had the same basic design as the Poetic Spartan, and the hinge feels like it’s going to break sooner or later
Ah, you should pickup a Poetic, I’ve been using them for years now, long before foldy phones. This case is absolutely solid and it’s taken and protected on at least 10 falls so far lol
And the hinge is solid to, I tend to play with the hinge by holding it and let the heavy part of the phone flap around whenever I get bored, so it’s definitely of high quality
Thanks, I’ll keep that in mind when my current case fails
No sane person buys a foldy phone, unless they completely fix the issue of it breaking because it got folded.
There are two types of people
- People who see phone as a tool to get things done, tools should be strong and can withstand wear and tear
- People who see phone as prized possession, they don’t mind spending extra effort to ensure phone is treated nicely.
In my experience people who love folding phones have habit of taking care of their phones that no one is sitting on it on the couch, that keys are not in the same pocket as phone, etc etc
Then there are people like me who don’t want to bother with taking care of a phone. And we hate folding phones. I like that sometimes my phone is on bed and I am sleeping I don’t have to worry about what if i roll onto my phone in my sleep. I know my phone will live.
Who the hell keeps their phone in the same pocket as keys? 😱
Before having wireless earphones I had habit off putting keys with wallet and phone on its own, but since I switched to wireless earbuds they don’t fit with large ass phones, so I have to put them with wallet. I already broke one case of earbuds pulling out keys from the pocket that had everything. I switched to keeping my phone and keys in the same pocket.
I’ve been doing that for almost a decade now and I don’t see the value proposition of folding phones yet where I can justify changing my habits again and taking care of yet another tool in my life.
Maybe one day if they had full computer with root privileges in my pocket, I’d consider changing my habits to carry that and make sure it is taken care of.
Anecdotal of course, but my flip phone has been great for mental ver a year, and my friend has had his for a couple, but ymmv
2 years on a foldable with no broken screens. It’s been a few years from the cracked screens.
I’m on my second foldy with no issues, first was 0g Pixel Fold and now the Pixel 9 pro fold
did you replace it, if you had no issues?T-Mobile has a Jump upgrade program, basically, you take a phone out on a 2 year Equipment Installment Plan where the cost is split on a monthly basis for 2 years.
After the 1st year, you can do a Jump upgrade, you get a new phone and as long as the phone your jumping from is in decent condition you send it back, and they wipe the remaining year off.
I average Jumping every year, the only time I stopped was when I was on a OnePlus 8T because they stopped selling their phones on T-Mobile, no other phone excited me except foldys but at the time it was only Samshits ridiculously skinny versions so I waited an extra year for the (at the time) rumored 0G Pixel Fold to drop.
Then I resumed my yearly upgrades to the 9 pro Fold and will again for the Pixel 10 Foldy (unless another root-friendly competitor starts selling on T-Mobile)
If you don’t keep a device for at least 5 years you have no real basis to talk about its issues though, like of course it’s fine when it’s basically brand new the whole time you have it
Yeah people look at me like I’m bonkers when I tell them my xcover has lasted 6 years including getting run over in a crosswalk TWICE (and the screen only had to be replaced the second time after the otterbox took 100% of the damage from the first one). I feel like this replacing devices every year thing has to be terrible for society and the planet in like 5 different ways each.
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”
Pretty soon we’re going to be carrying cubes in our pockets
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!
Wheels are so boring! Why can’t they just innovate?!
Holly shit, I didn’t know that interrobang symbol existed in utf-8.
Uhm aktshually 🤓 utf-8 is an encoding, you mean Unicode.
(sorry)
yes, my mistake.
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.
Which fold iteration was that on? It is after all, a screen that folds in half, there are bound to be kinks. But I feel as those major kinks have been mostly worked out. At least on the Pixel foldy series, I can’t speak for Samsung because I hate Samsucks, but they’re on what the 7th iteration now? Most major issues should have subsided
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?
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.
Cases are for sckrubs, you already have a clamshell that protects your device.
Not as protected as a DS, but good enough.
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.
See
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.
Having a separate device for me, that I don’t use all the time, is never going to stick, even if it is pocket sized. I always have my phone on me because I always use it, and now it can become a tablet when I need it too
Hmm maybe its just not something i would ever need. I guess i spoke for others without considering that.
Four-dimensional hyperphone
