Can even Apple make them work?
But even with a technically functional fold, is a folding screen actually useful?
Isn’t a folding phone the dumbest thing ever?
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Into The Fold
Samsungs Galaxy Foldwas a disaster.
you might see it and more often than not you might feel it."
A folding phone has a few advantages.
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Oroneadvantage: you’ve got the option to make its screen bigger.
As Zedd says, this is good for “content consumption,” but not much else.
Try that with a tablet.
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Dumb Phone
Except you cant.
And no matter how well designed a folding phone, the screen will have some kind of crease.
Early reviews of the Galaxy Fold reported dirt finding its way into the crease.
Microsoft took a different approachwith the Surface Duo, using two separate screens, hinged together like a book.
And what about that plastic screen?
“you should probably protect your folding phone from scratches.”
Lets all add bubbly, badly aligned screen protectors to our folding iPhones.
There are two ways a phone can fold.
Folding phones and flip phones made sense when phones had buttons, and werent little pocket computers.
They used a tried-and-tested laptop design, adapted to a smaller gear.
Then again, if Apple makes a folding iPhone, perhaps all these wrinkles will be ironed out.
Yes, that was a pun.
