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

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Btw, getting a phone on contract is usually more expensive than getting the phone and the contract separately.

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But i dont have £1700 to hand to buy it outright and buying on finance direct from samsung cost more than half what i pay on my contract per month. The contract is with o2 and they offer a separate airtime and phone plan. They are independant of one another. It would have cost more to buy separate with the airtime plan i have and the discounts i applied and extras i got for free with this particular contract.

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Pretty soon we're going to be carrying cubes in our pockets

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About a year late to the party and I bet it's gonna be a grand more expensive than other trifold options available

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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

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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

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I don't use a foldable phone... But you can't put a tablet into your pocket. It's meant to be the dimensions of a phone, just much thicker, so it fits into your pocket, while letting you fold it out to have double the screen size. For all the issues they have, that's a very reasonable and somewhat appealing feature.

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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

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The only other available trifold is already like 3k lol I highly doubt it'll be more then that for a Samsung version

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I'm on my second foldy with no issues, first was 0g Pixel Fold and now the Pixel 9 pro fold

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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

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Here in the US, it's not, carriers do Equipment Installment Plans as the new "contract" but they're all 0% interest for the most part, so it just the outright price of the phone broken across 24 months (or the option of 36 on AT&T iirc)

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It did decently for a while, then better competitors came to the scene that didn't make the asinine decision to make it ridiculously skinny and ol Sammy refuses to change course on that so sales have been falling

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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

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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.

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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, 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

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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

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Watch. $3.5k min for the device and still no stylus or expandable storage slot in the phone.

I want a folding phone, but they gotta make it reasonable and give me the features I got on my 5 year old Note before I consider spending that much.

AItoothbrush

Hmm maybe its just not something i would ever need. I guess i spoke for others without considering that.

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Cases are for sckrubs, you already have a clamshell that protects your device.

Not as protected as a DS, but good enough.