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

[don@lemm.ee]

I absolutely miss the unlimited fuck outta those very useful pockets, goddamn those jeans were just too good for the market. Fuck, my shorts had deepass pockets with a smaller little pocket on the outside for shit like your wallet or w/e

og jncos were just too good for us fuck

[ai_toothbrush@lemmy.zip]

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.

[crowairbrush@lemmy.world]

No sane person buys a foldy phone, unless they completely fix the issue of it breaking because it got folded.

[crowairbrush@lemmy.world]

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.

[serenissi@lemmy.world]

Holly shit, I didn't know that interrobang symbol existed in utf-8.

[txmyx@feddit.org]

Uhm aktshually utf-8 is an encoding, you mean Unicode.

(sorry)

[monkdervierte@lemmy.ml]

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

[mr_dr_oink@lemmy.world]

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.

[railing5132@lemmy.world]

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

[thealbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

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

[cujo255@sh.itjust.works]

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

[agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works]

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

[kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de]

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.

[cm0002@lemmy.world]

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

[cm0002@lemmy.world]

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

[cm0002@lemmy.world]

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

[agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works]

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

[cm0002@lemmy.world]

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)

[cm0002@lemmy.world]

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

[cm0002@lemmy.world]

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