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

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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

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On the contrary, my disdain for touchscreens is a result of spending far too *much* time with them. A larger, foldable screen isn't going to solve that problem.

A phone with a real keyboard would solve that problem—I loved my Droid 3 and miss it terribly—but for reasons I absolutely cannot fathom, no phone manufacturer wants to make such a phone today.

I don't know what estimates you speak of, but I manage a website, and the monthly tablet users on it is basically zero.

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Sounds like you aren't the market for touch screen devices. Most people get on with them just fine.

A phone with a slide out keyboard with buttons so tiny that only a mouse could use them? Sorry to exaggerate a bit, but it's a 4 inch screen. That keyboard must be awkard. I guess a blackberry would have suited you, too?

The reason they dont make physical keyboards for phones much anymore is be ause they dont work well and people dont like them.

You manage a website? What's your monthly hit count? How many of those users have foldables? Can you rely on the user agent to identify a tablet? Or is it possible that they just appear the same as a phone? (it is) do you think your websites number of tablet users is representative of the overall global users?

I used google to determine the number of tablet users globally and averaged a number from multiple sources.

Tbh, it seems like your view is "if it doesn't line up with my preconceived ideas, then it must not be true"

Which isnt a great way to look at things.

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The Droid 3 keyboard's keys are larger than a touchscreen keyboard's. You push them with your thumbs. If you can handle a Game Boy/DS/Switch, you can handle that keyboard.

Never used a BlackBerry. Their keyboards seem smaller (i.e. harder to use) than the Droid's.

Does nobody like keyboards on phones? I don't remember anybody surveying me.

Pretty ironic that you think I shouldn't knock foldable phones before I try them, but you're knocking physical keyboards without trying them.

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Google Analytics reports how many people are using desktop, phone, or tablet on my site.

A Google search for “tablet vs phone vs desktop market share” yields similar results: tablet market share is very low (though not basically zero like on my site).

I could charitably call tablets a niche device, but seeing as convertible laptops do everything tablets do, have keyboards, and run non-toy operating systems, I don't see any reason to be charitable.

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Wheels are so boring! Why can't they just innovate?!

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are we gonna get into the more filds = better logic now?