Comment on All Of Apple’s Foldable iPhone Prototypes Have Visible Creases, Which May Explain The Company’s Apprehension Towards A Launch

• ch00f@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  What I don’t understand is why nobody makes a foldable phone where it’s just two flat screens with an invisible bezel along one edge so they fit seamlessly together when fully opened.

  It’s not like there’s a use case where you operate the phone half unfolded and require both halves of the screen to be seamlessly connected.

  If the flexing feature wasn’t a gimmick and there was an actual use case for a foldable pocket iPad, someone would have released a phone like the Kyocera Echo en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyocera_Echo to commercial success.

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  • noodlejetski@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    not invisible, but the Surface Duo line was pretty much that.

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  • Natanael@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Microsoft had a dual screen foldable like that, then stopped supporting it

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  • ravhall@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Exactly. And it wouldn’t have to be double wide since some components could be pushed to the other size. I’m fine with it just being like two apps open and not even one big one. Multitasking.

    I guess what we really need is a phone case that has hinges and we can just buy two phones!

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  • EvilBit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Interesting idea. Bezels have been made pretty thin and there have been curved display edges, but I don’t know if anyone’s ever tried a one-side zero-bezel design that you could hinge together. Bezels in the other sides are fine, but could we create a flush edge with no gap to click two screens against each other?

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    • njordomir@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The first time anything got caught in the gap, it would probably shatter the screens. I do like it better than the crease though

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      • EvilBit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I was actually thinking of hinging it the other way, having the screens fold to the outside.

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• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Hey! The Nexus 4 was fucking wonderful!

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• amelia@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I have a foldable phone that also has a very slightly curved front screen (Honor Magic V2). It’s perfect. You can barely see the curve, no weird reflections, it just feels very good in the hand, there are no sharp edges at all. Feels very smooth and nice to hold and use.

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