it is a very cool technical achievement, but the user experience leaves a lot to be desired with them. most people don’t think about comparing. which is the only way i can imagine samsung getting as big as they have.
Comment on Samsung reveals first tri-fold phone
Beacon@fedia.io 1 day ago
This is a very cool piece of technology. The comments here naysaying about it seem odd to me. If it's not for you that's fine, but many millions of foldables have been bought over the past few years, and they continue to sell very well today
lime@feddit.nu 1 day ago
3abas@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Statement with no substance. What do you desire that’s not there?
Aside from the screen being softer and easier to scratch, name a practical difference between this and another 10" Android tablet…
If a 10" tablet meets your desires, and your desire to fold it and put it in your pocket, what’s left?
lime@feddit.nu 1 day ago
well that is part of the user experience. the main thing that annoys be though is that the ui tends to go one of two ways for these devices; either it’s super-custom to the point that all application developers have to do extra work to be usable on it, or there’s too little customisation, which again means apps are not properly usable without extra work. i’ve not seen a folding device that “just works” yet.
Cooper8@feddit.online 1 day ago
A lot of the issue with foldable is the non-standard aspect ratio. This gets to a standard tablet aspect ratio, so should run out of the box with most apps without additional modification.
Also DEX support on-device means it can run fully windowed applications and use mouse and keyboard natively, which is a big boost in functionality for productivity applications.
Aeri@lemmy.world 1 day ago
And they will continue to have big ass creases visible in the folding part
fuzzzerd@programming.dev 1 day ago
Only in real life, not in any of the marketing materials. So you only know how it really works after purchase.
Beacon@fedia.io 1 day ago
Almost no one buys a super expensive phone without trying it out in real life before buying it