Wonder how they'll do with the multi-dimensional foldy phone in 2032

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That's cool. I could definitely see having used one for drawing if I'd had one in college, but I'm old so that wasn't a thing yet then.

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You laugh, but there are some OLEDs out there that can do it. Not scaled down to phone size yet, though.

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I dont think that's fair to say. Would you apply the same logic to a house or a car?

Of course, i could pay for this phone in a single month, but then i wouldn't have enough for gas or electricity for my home. Or to pay for my car, or for food or anything i might need that month.

Even the biggest companies in the world borrow to pay for things. Spreading the cost is a perfectly acceptable and legitimate way to pay for something.

I save for other things. I have my bills, and i have my savings.

Whilst i appreciate the financial advice, i would prefer a less matter of fact approach to calling me irresponsible

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My desktop and laptop are too clunky for day to day stuff. There are a wide range of things i now do on my phone that would be less than possible on a normal phone screen.

I dont blame you for not seeing the benefits. Like i said earlier, you need to try it to get it.

As for a self destructing screen, its nonsense. There are 5 people at my work that have folding phones. There are 2 fold 4's 2 fold 5's and a fold 3 as well as my fold 6, theres also my wife who has my 3 year old fold 3 and my brother who now has a pixel fold and no one has a broken screen. Oh! My mum and her partner both had flip 3 phones and have just bought the flip 6s and her partner ended up getting a fold 5 last year. No broken screens.

If you know anyone who has broken a folding screen, that person would have a brokwn screen regardless of having a folding phone or not. The amount of broken screens or damages cases i see in my day to day is insane.

I know even all of the examples i gave are anecdotal, but your claim about self destructive screens is simply false and not backed up with anything.

I expect to have my fold 6 in 5 years still as good as when i bought it.

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I remember there being an uproar about folding screens developing visible seams after a while. I would consider that a failure.

Unless your folding phone also has a physical keyboard and a serious non-toy operating system, I fail to see how it can practically replace a laptop or desktop.

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But why
did you replace it, if you had no issues?

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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)

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I think this video is reposted but there's this which is a phone sized flexible OLED 'trading card' type thing:

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What do you mean by seam? Do you mean the crease?
If so, it is nothing. I've never even close to cared about it, and in all my time using these phones, it hasnt been a problem, even once.

If you mean something else, then please elaborate because i dont know about it.

In regards to it replacing a laptop or desktop, that's not what it's for. It can replace some of the functions of a laptop or desktop, i can game on it using apps or streaming from my ps5, or emulators with an external controller like a gamesir make it into a respectable handheld.
I can comfortably manage emails, shopping, web browsing, lemmy, social media, photo and video editing. I also use it for playing music (displaying sheet music) and composing music with cubase elements and fl studio. It also works as a midi controller for various insteuments and effects processors.

Im sorry but just because you dont see the use cases, it doesn't mean there isn't any. Arguing against folding phones is almost the same as arguing against tablets. Which have a decades long legacy of being extremely useful.

But again. I dont replace my laptop or desktop with this thing. I replace some functions and i compliment or augment others.

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2 years on a foldable with no broken screens. It's been a few years from the cracked screens.

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Yeah I know, and am actually semi-serious xD

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Personally I apply that logic to everything except a house (so I hopefully can afford a house one day)

Sorry if it came across rude, didn't mean it like that

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No, thats fair. I struggle to figure out when so.eone is being confrontational even irl.

I think its a good standpoint to have, saving to buy is a good way to stay out of debt. The only downside is when it comes to buying a house, if you dont have a credit history, then you might fail the credit checks because theres no proof you can stick to repayments.

Things like phone contracts and bills help with that. It may even be worth getting a credit card to pay for groceries and then paying back the credit card with your wages each month just to build your credit score.

I dont use saving on phones. I use them on car and house repairs. On my kids clothes etc.

But you do you, and I'll do me. Im managing just fine and im not poor (at least not relative to other people in my circles) (obviously most people are poor, its all about perspective, but thats neither hear nor there)

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> I can comfortably manage emails, shopping, web browsing, lemmy, social media

Without a real keyboard? How? I find the experience of doing such things on a touchscreen infuriatingly slow and error-prone. That's why I'm using a desktop to write this post.

> Arguing against folding phones is almost the same as arguing against tablets.

That's not saying much. Tablets have been a flop.

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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.

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I'm just waiting for someone to make a shirt out of those so I can have sick ass animated designs.

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that's interesting! I didn't know that, thanks!

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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

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Because my keyboard looks like this. It's fast enough, and if you learn how to use shortcuts, suggestions, and cursor control etc its easy in its own way.

Maybe you just dont spend enough time with touchscreens because of your clear disdane for them.

Tablets aren't a flop. Estimates say there are at least 1 billion users worldwide, and they have a lot of niche functionality not provided by laptops, as i have previously mentioned.

Regardless. You, a none foldable user who clearly thinks desktops/laptops are the best user experience and most functional, telling me, a foldable phone user who has both a desktop, and a laptop, and i work in IT on a laptop daily that my foldable is not a perfectly reasonable and legitimate user experience is a bit odd.

I have experience of both, you have experience of one (or so it seems based on your posts) and you are telling me i am wrong about my experience because you dont think it's possible. It's just a bit rich....

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Oh I want to open a scroll like that dramatically