From a fold 7 user. Just buy a fucking tablet, lol.
Samsung reveals first tri-fold phone
Submitted 1 day ago by g8phcon2@k.fe.derate.me to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.phonescoop.com/articles/article.php?a=23641
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RonniePickering@lemmy.world 39 minutes ago
Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
After reading through the comments and seeing the majority of people are commenting negatively but have never had a folding phone. i feel like i should chime in.
I have owns a fold 3 a fold 6 and now a fold 7, my wife has a fold 5 and we have never had one fail on us. No broken screens, no scratches or bugs. There are also several people where i work who have had at least 2 generations of these phones and also have never had issues.
I know these things break, but so does any phone. Phones breaking tend to be a user problem and not a hardware one. If you dont handle with care then you are the problem.
In fact i have only ever broken 1 phone in my 20+ years of using them and it was entirely my fault. I put it on a book on a table, then without thinking i lifted the book and it slid off and landed in a bucket of water. Pixel 1 not waterproof. My bad.
I guess i just think people are quick to judge these phones without ever having used one and i think thats so short sighted.
titanicx@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
I had a fold three for almost 4 years and it was fantastic. And then upgraded to the fold six and had it for about a month open the screen on it and literally didn’t even close it and break it and drop it literally just picked it up opened it and it cracked in half I was so pissed. Going through the warranty process they could not get me a six or a seven so they sent me a check which unfortunately would raise my bill by over $100 because I no longer had a phone to trade in at this point so I finally just downgraded to a Samsung 24 plus and in about 6 months I’m going to trade this one back in to get the fold seven because I definitely don’t want to pay over $2,000 just out of pocket.
fermuch@lemmy.ml 1 hour ago
As another data point, I’m writing this from my fold 6 which is about one year old, with no scratches nor marks of any kind.
sircac@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Good to know, my few experiences with folds (which I was quite fond of) where in the previous era of smartphones (so mechanical keyboard and no touch-screens) and the bending part evidenced always as a weak point in terms of wearing, in one occasion the failure point cause of the phone change. So, is there no evident wearing symptoms in the bending areas of these folding smartphones of treated woth love?
athairmor@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This is going to be like shaving razors, isn’t it? How soon before quad-fold phones?
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I’m waiting for one that unrolls like a bamboo placemat.
KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Apple does have this patent:
oxideseven@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
I think LG had a parent to get that on the works. Roll up phone seems like the ultimate phone honestly. Whatever size you want or need at the time otherwise it’s a cylinder like a day sharpie
spongebue@lemmy.world 1 day ago
A phone you can crumple up like a receipt before you put it in your pocket
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
That would finally be a convention to replace slacking the phone down in rage.
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Well phones already vibrate so they’re ahead of the curve in that regard.
I’m waiting for the twelvefold myself.
Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
I’m waiting for the twelvefold myself The Samsung Origami
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Not sure if we’re talking about phone, razor blade, origami, or sword-making.
pdxfed@lemmy.world 1 day ago
What about 6 minute abs?
lando55@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
6 little Samsungs twirling on a branch
Eating lots of iPhones on my uncles ranch
You know that old children’s tale from the sea
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 day ago
When you said shaving razors, I thought you were going to go with disposable, but you went with multi blades. Good head fake.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Nice, it has twice as many failure points as previous folding phones.
Archer@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Why have a single point of failure when you can have multiple?
felixwhynot@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Redundancy!
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 15 hours ago
This would be the coolest shit ever if these phones didn’t have a reputation for breaking so easily. I had the Z Fold 4 and after I left it partially folded for about 30 mins in my car while I was driving, something went wrong with the hinge and it could no longer open fully flat. Unacceptable for a device at that price range.
I want us to go back when it comes to smartphones, not forward. Bring back the holy trinity of removable battery, headphone jack, and SD card slot.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 9 hours ago
i have a feel foldable phone would have more weakspots.
KickMeElmo@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Whose brilliant idea was it to demo this with a wallpaper that looks like a shitty diagonal screen fold?
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
It’s to make a subtle “Z”
shishka_b0b@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Commitment: 10/10
Execution: 0/10Slovene@feddit.nl 1 day ago
😲 Zorro is real!
OrgunDonor@lemmy.world 1 day ago
thats not the wallpaper… someone just had nails.
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
I know a person who has some Samsung foldable phone that is as of right now (2025.12.03) about a year old. According to them, everything was fine since February when the phone was bought. But last week we got below 0C weather, so the fold line on the screen got layers separated.
Z Fold 7 is 2000 euro. They might have Z Fold 6, I am not sure. Regardless, that is way too expensive of a phone to breaks under a mildly cold weather.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 9 hours ago
its like curved screen gimmick, prone to defect, failures because of the awkward construction making it prone to failures.
Rooty@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Bring back netbooks you cowards.
Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 1 day ago
Considering everyone I know with a folding phone has had a fault with the folding part of it - I don't think its the best idea from a durability standpoint to add yet another folding part.
If one screen or fold point breaks, you're now left with two unusable (but perfectly functioning) screens. Seems like an expensive gimmick to me.
winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Then they can replace more devices. Capitalism at work
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Mine grew a visible line at the foldy bit that you can see at an angle
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
My understanding is that’s normal on all foldable.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 day ago
From the moment I saw it, I knew what the problem would be, and surprise! That’s the problem.
BTW, I’m a musician, not an engineer. If I saw that obvious issue, what is their fucking problem?
alphabethunter@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s not a problem, it’s a business opportunity. The more they break, the more they can sell you a 2000 dollars phone.
aesthelete@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
If I saw that obvious issue, what is their fucking problem?
The engineer’s problem is that the marketing and sales department started running all of the companies two decades ago. So, they’re constantly overruled.
Hyaline_Cat@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Yes, because the dual-fold phone did so great. Clearly the problem was a lack of folds
GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 12 hours ago
I think the problem with 2 folds is that you get a square screen, which sucks for most websites, videos and games optimized for 16:9 screens, either landscape or portrait.
echodot@feddit.uk 3 hours ago
If you’re looking at a website designed at any point in the last 10 years it will be able to adapt the layout. Fixed layout were a relic of the past even when I was working in the industry 15 years ago.
axx@slrpnk.net 18 hours ago
More unfixable crap for a world drowning in crap. Hooray!
Psythik@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Yeah, even as a foldable enthusiast, I see no reason for this to exist. A second hinge is just another failure point.
Wake me up when the first cylindrical, rollable phone comes out. Until then, I’m happy with my Fold 6.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
It would be cool if it rolled into a functional telescope.
victorz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
😦
At least we know the folding will stop at 7.
Ydna@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
inb4 rolled phone
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
Perfect for snortin’ lines lol
fissionmailed@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
👏
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
You had me and then you lost me.
Samsung’s Most Versatile AI Phone, Powered by the Largest Screen
Tikiporch@lemmy.world 1 day ago
How is screen?
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Why are you confuse? Battery will last a day? Maybe half of day. Screen? What about three folded screens? The power is immense.
FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 1 day ago
You know, it’s like 3 screens, so they can push you triple the amount of ads and bloat ware! Yay!
blinfabian@feddit.nl 9 hours ago
cant wait for the TeleVone^TM^. a phone that flips to the size of a full 4k television
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 9 hours ago
seems like a gimmick.
echodot@feddit.uk 3 hours ago
It’s really not. The screen is 4k OLED. It’s a perfect display. The tech had one tiny downside when it first launched which wasn’t the crease was relatively noticeable, that’s a long since fixed issue.
The only people who think they’re folding phones are a gimmick are people who have never had them. Or and apple users who want one but can’t get over the fact that Apple doesn’t make them.
Who wouldn’t want a phone that can change size on demand. How is that not a useful feature? Sci-fi is full of transparent screens which are objectively terrible, but folding is useful.
some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’d love to see a Japanese fan style phone 🪭 Maybe it folds up into a reusable straw?
TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Not that I’d ever buy it, but I’m looking forward to the price tag so I can have a good laugh.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 19 hours ago
Why?
LifeOfChance@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
So they can use the third screen to show you ads
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 1 hour ago
I hate that this is the best reason I have seen.
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 1 day ago
Why did they make the screens fold in? The Huawei Mate XT folds up in a z-shape, which imo makes more sense as you don’t need a ‘fourth’ outer display anymore. Seems more efficient that way.
filcuk@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Because they’re fragile. You don’t want your screen to die on the first drop.
14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
and you don’t want it full of scratches, since cover glasses and protection cases will probably be quite complicated for these monstrosities?
lsjw96kxs@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
Actually not the first tri-folded phone, but OK
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
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.
lime@feddit.nu 1 day ago
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.
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?
Tattorack@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I don’t want large phones that get even larger. I want a large phones that becomes smaller for my pocket.
ThePrimitive@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I want a large phone that gets larger but the larger screen is an e-reader.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Huh… That’s not a bad idea, actually.
jbaber@lemmy.sdf.org 20 hours ago
This is why I got a Razr. Once the technology becomes common, I dream of a regular size phone that shrinks to a matchbook or something.
aesthelete@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Same here. I didn’t understand why anyone would want a double thick (or now triple thick) phablet that folds out into a full tablet.
The razr I bought two years ago is the first phone that comfortably fits in my pocket in like a decade.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
They sell those too
Tattorack@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Yes, but they still have problems. But I’m noticing a trend in foldable phone designs, and I’m worried that by the time foldable phones get really good, the ones that fold smaller aren’t around anymore.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 17 hours ago
Huawei: Fuck everything, we’re doing five folds.
blackn1ght@feddit.uk 8 hours ago
Imagine the possibilities!
- Heated camping mattress
- Sausage roll warmer
- Car windscreen defroster
Slovene@feddit.nl 1 day ago
*foldable tablet that can also make calls
daggermoon@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Ight, this shit is just getting loony.
ehxor@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
This is going to end up like the number of razor blades on disposable razors isn’t it?
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
Woah, I cant believe Samsung created something that Huawei released over a year ago (I do belive the Huawei Mate XT Ultimate was the first tri folding phone although it didnt release outside china)
warm@kbin.earth 1 day ago
Impressive from an engineering standpoint and it's only going to get more refined. Give it 5-10 years and maybe they will be durable enough for regular use.
hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz 16 minutes ago
Pretty soon Samsung is going to release a foldable that can become an imax screen. You just need to unfold it 1000 times, and you’re set. It also needs to be unfolded 4 times to be able to answer a call, or use the 1.2 back screen to do that.
When in doubt, just add more fold.