Comment on Apple Foldable iPhone Launch Faces Delay Until 2026, Faces Design Roadblocks

frog_brawler@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• TORFdot0@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Bin this and bring back the mini so we can have a proper small form factor phone

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  • UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If the foldable is the form factor of a mini, how would that go over?

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    • TORFdot0@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Either is better than a 7” inch phone like the Pro Max. But I don’t know how reliable the flip form factor is yet.

      I had the first gen razer before my current mini and it stopped working after about 6 months of use. It just stopped reading touch input after flipping it shut one day.

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• EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’d buy this in a heartbeat lol

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  • BowtiesAreCool@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Same. I like the smaller form factor but don’t want to ditch screen space like the SE. And I prefer this style of flip over the giant tablet that folds down to a skinny screen.

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  • rbesfe@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But why?

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    • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Because I’m a millenial with a nostalgic craving for the satisfaction of a flip phone.

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      • stellargmite@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ditch touch screen and give it physical buttons and we’ll be on to something.

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• Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Speak for yourself… I’m hoping google comes out with a flip phone Pixel. If I was an iPhone person this is exactly what I’d be hoping for.

  I want a phone that folds up to be smaller than a normal phone so I don’t have to have giant bricks in my pocket.

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  • Louisoix@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’d gladly trade-in my 8pro for a foldable pixel, even though I don’t want to change phones often…

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  • AlphaAutist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      As an iPhone user anything Apple comes up with you will shove in your mouth and say “thank you can I have more, Apple is the best”.

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• missphant@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I love the idea of it but I have to agree, it’s just less repairable and causes even more e-waste. Smartphone advancement is at a point where we could easily be using the same device for at least 8 years, but not if they come with planned obsolescence as a feature.

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  • Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Let us change the battery…it’s the major reason why phones feel ‘slow’ as they age.

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• Xatolos@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  People said the same thing about the notch in iPhone screens, and the removal of the head phone jack. They even said it about larger iPhones. And just like all these other “ideas” that should be skipped, people will buy it.

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  • frog_brawler@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I still think the removal of the headphone jack was a very anti-customer move. It only benefited them to try to sell more earbuds.

    I’ve known people that purchased the foldable android when it came out, they got rid of it.

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  • RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    removal of the head phone jack

    I’m still proper pissed about this.

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• Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I love my giant iPhone and would never buy a foldable

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• selokichtli@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Apple fans will buy whatever Apple makes them want.

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• joyjoy@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have the Samsung foldable (flip 4). It’s a nice gimmic, but does apple really want to force app developers to support yet another form factor? That’s supposedly one of the draws of apple development: you don’t have to support every random screen size made by some third party.

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