looks like shit fuck you
Huawei unveils new trifold smartphone before Apple’s iPhone 17 reveal
Submitted 1 day ago by Domino@quokk.au to technology@lemmy.world
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nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 minutes ago
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 18 hours ago
Hey, if we’re doing quirky pones only 1% of users will ever consider buying again can you bring back hardware keyboards please?
umbrella@lemmy.ml 27 minutes ago
hey, can you bring back replaceable batteries too?
humanoidchaos@lemmy.cif.su 5 minutes ago
I thought capitalism was supposed to provide options.
I was literally fed propaganda in American Public School about a “study” where capitalists chose what kind of soda they wanted, while communists just said “yes or no” because they viewed it all as just “soda.”
I’m starting to realize just how stupid the average idiot american is. Being raised and told you’re from the greatest country ever is deadly.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
“nah, you cunts had your chance” -Blackberry.
BlackAura@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
This was an interesting video / project I quite enjoyed.
Psythik@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
For those with ADHD or just don’t have the time to watch:
He bought a Samsung Flip with a broken inner screen, removed the screen and split the phone in half, and turned it into a modern take on a slide phone.
To do so, he 3D printed a custom mold to replace the bottom half of the phone, and then shoved a Blackberry keyboard into it. Designed a custom hinge so that instead of flipping the phone open, you slide the keyboard out from behind and it drops below the cover screen—which is now the main screen—because he used a 3rd party launcher to make it behave as such. That way the phone is fully functional without the inner screen.
The only thing he didn’t do (nor did he attempt to), is figure out a way to move one or both of the cameras. Since the phone no longer flips open, the two main cameras are now both selfie cameras and their is no main camera(s).
tungah@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Yes, please and thank you.
TeddE@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I personally am waiting for the OLED handkerchief.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Lol whyyy
humanoidchaos@lemmy.cif.su 3 minutes ago
🤑
Most of the useful idiots complaining about not having enough waste their money on dumb shit like this, or they’re defending someone else who is.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
so we can play MIDI accordian songs. Who doesn’t love that.
ZombieMantis@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Finally, someone understands 🪗
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I’ve only ever heard about these folding screens breaking super easy and fast.
Unless the tech is better now it feels like planned obsolescence
toiletobserver@lemmy.world 1 day ago
humanoidchaos@lemmy.cif.su 1 minute ago
That’s literally the audience these “boutique” phones are for.
trey_a_12@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Honestly, if I could get a phone that unfolds to a tablet size like that + Desktop Mode, I’d combine it with a portable keyboard and trackpad combo and be perfectly happy using that as my laptop solution. One cellular plan, large screen, and super portable too, not to mention phone controllers like the GameSir and Backbone for when I want something more gaming handheld-esque, Linux ARM64 virtual machines, and more!
humanoidchaos@lemmy.cif.su 48 seconds ago
Bro just use a laptop.
realitista@piefed.world 1 day ago
It would be nice if one of the folds could be left folded at the bottom to give you a keyboard.
trey_a_12@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Exactly. Think the iPad Smart Connector, and even better with a Magic Keyboard-type hinge that could hold the device up when you didn’t need a folio-type stand
bluGill@fedia.io 18 hours ago
Not really - keyboards need to be much farther from the screen than that. Laptops are terrible for the same reason. Maybe your body can accept that bad ergonomics, but mine cannot. which is why I carry a separate keyboard for my laptop and phone. (plus mechanical keyboards are much better anyway)
Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Fuck everything, we’re doing five folds!
Domino@quokk.au 23 hours ago
Oaksey@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Well we are up to 7 blade razors!
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
Please pack a keyboard on the back of the lowest third.
BlackAura@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
This guy did just that:
Thought it was a really cool idea / project. Essentially a modified Z Flip.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
I admit i had to stop watching after 5 minutes. Do kids like videos cut confusingly and …hyperactive like this one nowadays?
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
meh…I just bought a Samsung Flip 7 and it’s great. Apple will invent it next year.
unphazed@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
It’s slated for invention in 2031. Gotta stick to the 6 year rule. Can’t be too blatant about IP theft.
echodot@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Why is the fact that it’s before the iPhone 17s reveal important it’s not like the iPhone 17 is a folding phone all that Apple have a folding iPhone at all.
MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
It is because Apple has been dominant in the premium smartphone market for years, including in China. Huawei have started to make a big dent in that tier in China after eating Apple’s lunch in the lower price categories.
This is a feature that Huawei brought to market before Apple, which was kind of a first. Until recently, they were just following Apple’s innovations. It’s early and I wouldn’t want one now, but I wouldn’t be surprised if smartphones-that-fold-out-into-tablets was the standard by the end of the decade.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 hours ago
Samsung have been eating apple’s lunch for years. In terms of market share Samsung basically have all the wrong way.
commander@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’d be good for comic ebooks, PDFs, documents. Pretty much stuff you’d use with a tablet. I see the appeal of a one device covers it all. Phone, tablet, if it had a solid desktop mode, office productivity. Don’t have faith in these mobile first OSs to do it all well though
salty_chief@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Employer: “Why are you late again?”
Employee: “Sorry, I had to unfold my phone a few times this morning. It will happen again.”
hubobes@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
Weird idea to put part of the foldable screen on the outside of the phone. Classic foldables at least protect their sensitive screen when closed.
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Who needs or wants this. The use is quite limited. One fold, alright, but 3??
lime@feddit.nu 1 day ago
i’m the opposite way. i see no use for a phone that folds in half. i like my phones to be usable one-handed, and having a clamshell shape that folds out into something i can’t reach my thumb over is just dumb. but if i can have a normalish candybar phone that unfolds into a whole-ass tablet in my pocket? absolutely.
Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
the only advantage i can think of is to maintain more traditional tablet aspect ratios. single fold phones tend to have a very square screen when opened.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Eventually they‘ll go full circle (literally) and go back to scrolls.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
I see you three and raise you seven.
tidderuuf@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’ll be releasing 15 fold shortly, hold on to yo butts!
Sxan@piefed.zip 1 day ago
Þe way it folds, when closed you get one exposed screen, so it's like a normal phone form factor (alþough, it looks pretty long to me). When open, it's a tablet wiþ a bigger, more normal-sized, tablet screen þan þe truncated bifolds.
Apparently, enough people want foldables þat Apple decided to release one - or were you asking why anyone would want a larger screen?
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
As long as it wasn’t too cumbersome as a phone, the option to have a full on tablet that could fit in your pocket is somewhat attractive. I don’t have much use for a phone that folds into a bigger phone (current foldable market), but if this was done right I could see some appeal.
carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That looks really hard to hold.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Honestly the iPhone performance is over rated now.
I just came from an Android 9 Razer Phone 2 (with an ancient SD845) to a brand new iPhone 16 plus…
And it feels slower.
The UI is slower and more stuttery. Heavy webpages that ran fine on my Android phone crawl on the iPhone. It literally has the same amount of RAM (8GB), so it can’t run anything more complex either.
Sxan@piefed.zip 1 day ago
I was just reading today about a different, upcoming, Huawei foldable. Apparently, it uses þe same "falcon hinge" þis one does, and it sort of locks open and closed. If it works as well as þe reviewer said it does, it shouldn't be any harder to hold þan a tablet.
MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 1 day ago
þis one
Holy shit did that character break my brain for a second.
TwinTitans@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yuk
napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
More like before Samsung’s trifold.
dan69@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
At this point I’d try tri fold before it’s time for 5sided
ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
Seems a bit much and I’ll wait till they flush it out to test it out in the stores. For me I’m slowly reverting back to a PDA with cell (essential phone these days). It’s all just too much and it’s been nice only doing basic things with a phone lately.
humanoidchaos@lemmy.cif.su 7 minutes ago
I saw an 85" Samsung TV for $1000 at walmart today.
Kinda crazy (stupid) how people spend that much on a fucking phone.