I would like a feature where you fold an iphone into a linux phone.
Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Says 'Screw It,' Here's the Foldable iPhone Early
Submitted 11 hours ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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goatinspace@feddit.org 3 hours ago
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
I like the idea of a foldable phone but what I really want is a phone that folds enough to fit in my women’s pants pockets.
Mellibird@lemmy.myserv.one 1 hour ago
This is actually why I adore my Motorola razr. First phone I’ve had in I don’t know how many years that fits easily into the front pocket of my jeans and is relatively unnoticeable. Love the folding form factor.
Typhoon@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
The other solution is to make women’s pants with pockets that can actually hold things.
3abas@lemmy.world 6 minutes ago
They do, they’re just not skin tight. You can’t really fit much into a pocket in super tight jeans.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
inconceivable!
ripcord@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Wait your pants have pockets and they’re not vestigial
selokichtli@lemmy.ml 4 hours ago
As if a foldable mobile was some kind of industry super secret anyway. Apple is a joke.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Assuming he’s right, they’re keeping the stupid camera bump thing from the air? Everyone mocked that, why would they do that.
scratchee@feddit.uk 11 hours ago
The camera bump sure isn’t going away for a folding phone. cameras have fundamental volume requirements to maintain quality, if they don’t think they can justify making the normal iPhone thick enough to enclose the camera then there’s no way in hell they’ll think the folding phones doubled width can include it, if anything you’d expect it to be more prominent on a folding model
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
It does not surprise me that the Air is literally the folding phone without the second screen.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
It slightly does me, given that the Air was (apparently) a huge commercial flop. You’d think they’d revisit the soundly mocked design instead of recycling it.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
how do you propose removing it?
SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
No thicker than very popular and successful phones from just 5 years ago. They can use the extra space for a larger battery, so they dont have to nerf performance to maintain stability in older phones. They can also use the space to restore repairability.
But probably not for a folding phone, since making both sides that thick will probably be too much.
0x0@infosec.pub 5 hours ago
making an extremely thick phone
lol how is 11mm extremely thick
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
The marketing about it being an incredibly thin phone was a misstep - it just looked absurd to have such a chunky lump stuck onto it, and it felt very much like they were attempting a have cake / eat cake situation by claiming incredible camera stats (which werent very good) and an amazingly thin phone, and then that giant electronic bump had an external lens on it too.
Had it just been an ugly phone, I doubt it would have mer with anywhere near the dame criticism, but all the adcopy about how thin it was overtop of photos where you could see it had a giant lump on it felt really dishonest, and if this article is accurate it may count among the biggest apple flops ever.
frizzo@piefed.social 3 hours ago
Lol “extremely thick phone”. Get that apple boot, you got it to your gills this time. Only when it’s razor thin and cuts the hands of the unworthy will then your lust be satisfied.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 9 hours ago
I mean, being stupid thin is something that a foldable phone has to be, so that it ends up being normal-ish thickness when folded. So it tracks that they’d design it like their ultra-thin phone.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
But it’s not stupid thin, it’s got a giant lump on it?
FireWire400@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
The stupid camera bump thing they totally didn’t steal from Google
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
are we really going to start counting who stole what in all smartphone design.
warm@kbin.earth 7 hours ago
This folding iPhone also looks like the Pixel Fold
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 9 hours ago
Man anyone else remember the Nexus 6P?
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I mean, do they even have a case against them? It’s not like they stole the information, or signed a contract with Apple.
Also, fuck Apple, and Google, and the rest of them. If they can’t keep a lid on their “secrets”, that’s on them.
H1AA6329S@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Breakthrough technology, never seen before in the mobile market. Apple, like always, surprises the word with the latest never seen before tech that will become mainstream in the near future, thanks to apple and it’s affordable pricing for everyday customers.
Now just slap that 2,5-3k RRP on the device and let it sell out in.
fartsparkles@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Apple’s entire history as an org has been as a fast follower, not a first mover.
The Apple Newton is a fast example of why they avoid being a first mover.
SOULFLY98@slrpnk.net 6 hours ago
They’ve also become really, really good at outsourcing R&D to other companies. This lets them outsource the expense of trial and error, and swoop down with a mature product once everyone else has paid for it.
15 years ago they famously patented, and then leaked that they were working on a fingerprint reader authentication method, and then they watched the Android manufacturers bend over backwards to implement it so they could say they did it “first.” In those early days of smartphones, being first to implement something and then claiming Apple copied it was a big deal for people who wanted to be first movers (today they are called “techbros”). Motorola Mobility ate the cost of R&D, was never able to recoup the costs, and ended up being sold to Google for their patent portfolio. By the time Apple released Touch ID two and a half years later, Motorola Mobility was a shell of itself, and ended up being sold a second time to Lenovo.
Foldable phones have been a thing for a while, and Apple just sat back and took notes on what everyone else was doing. Surface Duo killed Microsoft’s last attempt at a mobile device. Now it’s a relatively mature market (we have tri-fold phones for two years now and tablets that fold into a laptop with a bluetooth keyboard) and now Apple will swoop in and bring the rest of the market.
The money isn’t in being a first mover; it’s in making a reliable product that everyone can use. It shouldn’t be lost on anyone that Apple made a trillion dollars while OpenBSD (upstream for a lot of Apple’s ecosystem) struggled to pay its light bills.
OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Apple usually prefers to do it right rather than do it first.
uncouple9831@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
“fast” follower? Are we talking about the same apple who just released 2006’s windows Vista aero theme as a new design in 2025?
NachBarcelona@piefed.social 8 hours ago
Apple is what we call “Sondermüll”.
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
The biggest problem with these is the price. Apple wants us on a two year upgrade cycle but these phones are $1500-2000. That’s insane.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 hours ago
Apple was actually the first to offer several years of software updates and usually their hardware has been very durable. The 1-2 year upgrade cycle on Apple was only ever for stupid clout chasers who think it matters if you have the latest. Among regular Apple users, keeping a phone for years isn’t uncommon.
Still wouldn’t buy one of these because I don’t want my phone to fold. I want a new iPhone mini. And ideally a Mini Pro.
BurntWits@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
I’m not sure if it’s possible but a mini pro but with good battery life would be the ultimate phone for me personally. I’m basically always on my feet but use my phone a lot so a large battery is important, but I also want a small phone and a good camera. I doubt that’ll happen though.
ripcord@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
He says 2000-2500 for this one
ravenaspiring@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
Message go Apple: “Small Hands exists, you fucks!”
Also invent something useful. Seamless foldables is, ehh.
How about a phone you don’t need too touch? Like make siri actually functional?
Or be dramatic and figure out a wag to counter the dumming down you propagate with your phones and find a way to improve peoples critical thinking skills…
GraveyardOrbit@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
Over the years they’ve kept trying small phones and people overwhelmingly don’t buy them. The market speaks: the bigger the better
NachBarcelona@piefed.social 8 hours ago
People who own Apple devices are instantly lower on my respectometer.
stoy@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
People who judge other people based on nothing other than what technology brand they use instantly are instantly lower on my respectometer.
Fuck off with that shit.
I used Symbian for years, then I used android tablets as a complement to the Symbian phones for years, then I got an iPhone for work, and when my last Symbian device died I got an iPhone as I knew the OS from my work phone. A few years later I tried an Android phone for a few months, but when the display got totaled in a drop, and I had to send the phone away, I just got back to my iPhone as it was easier to fix on the spot in local repair shops.
I am an IT guy, I don’t care about blue or green bubbles, if you are on Android, that is fine, that probably works better for you, for me iOS has so far served me well.
Stop judging others for their preference of tech brands. Apple and Google are both evil.
hddsx@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
It’s not just about the bubbles - it’s about having congruent feature sets. When the Android phone joins the group message, the experience is notably different.
The other thing that drove me to iPhone over Android is that the experience is largely consistent. You can tell people what to do from a far based on OS version and phone model because there are so few models. It’s really hard to ask your elderly parent which phone and is this or that feature available remotely. You never know which manufacturer removed what feature
In iOS? Go here. Do this. Do that. Done
Slayer@infosec.pub 7 hours ago
FTFY: People who own Apple devices and believe they are superior are morons.
theherk@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Remove the outside screen and all cameras and I’d be slightly more interested.
noodlejetski@piefed.social 9 hours ago
remove all the screens and the charging port and I’m sold.
glowie@infosec.pub 8 hours ago
Remove the whole phone and I’m touching grass
theherk@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
More of a fidget toy at that point. I’m in. I’d go as high as $8.
Minimac@lemmy.ml 7 hours ago
Ewwwww
QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Now Prosser, Apple definitely doesn’t use him for leaks since he is being sued. He’s just an idiot.