Smartphone manufacturers still want to make foldables a thing::Foldables are barely 1% of the market, but that’s not stopping anyone but Apple.
Look at the prices. They probably have massive margins. Don’t need much market share.
Smartphone manufacturers still want to make foldables a thing
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helenslunch@feddit.nl 9 months ago
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Fetch.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 9 months ago
I just want an LGV20 with upgraded specs. Make that while you’re at it.
SpicyTacoDude@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Removable battery, 3.5mm Jack, quad DAC, physical sim, SD slot. God that was great. I recently got a xcover 6 pro which is updated and close enough; it’s waterproof to boot. Definitely not flagship though.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 9 months ago
I’ll look at it. Thanks for the recommendation. I don’t care about having a flagship phone if it can’t do the things I want from it. Those things are all made for the iPhone crowd anyway.
krees@masto.skylinehub.live 9 months ago
The idea is great but without devs focusing on making good use of it... Smells like 3D TVs to me
tallpaul@lemm.ee 9 months ago
This is what puts me off.
Runar Bjørhovde, an analyst at Canalys, said return rates of foldables are 5-10 percent, far higher than traditional smartphones and a deterrent to repeat purchases.
A phone costing me four digits with that high a return rate. Nope.
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 9 months ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Foldables, which have a screen that opens like a book or compact mirror, barely exceed a 1 per cent market share of all smartphones sold globally almost five years after they were first introduced.
“We will continue to position our foldables as a key engine for our flagship growth with the clear differentiation, experience and flexibility these devices have to offer,” said Samsung.
Other handset makers such as Motorola, China’s Huawei and its spin-off Honor are also pinning their hopes on the product helping to revive a market that suffered its worst year for more than a decade.
Every other big smartphone maker has followed Samsung into the market, including Google’s Pixel Fold and Chinese alternatives from Huawei, Oppo and Xiaomi.
“We believe foldables are the future of smartphone devices, just like electric cars were to the auto industry,” said Bond Zhang, UK chief executive of Honor.
Counterpoint Research estimates about 16 million foldable phones will be sold this year, just 1.3 per cent of the 1.2 billion smartphone market total.
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Sagifurius@lemm.ee 9 months ago
I feel like the percentage of the market that wears button down shirts but also needs a smart phone for business, that is also small enough to close the flap so the phone doesn’t fall in cow shit or go up the grain auger, is comparatively small. It’s really annoying they haven’t changed those pockets from cigarette pack size to smart phone size.
MaxPow3r11@lemmy.world 9 months ago
They should bring back PHONES.
I don’t know if I actually need a computer that is better at the COMPUTER part than the PHONE part.
turmacar@lemmy.world 9 months ago
They make plenty of ‘dumbphones’. They sell them at Walmart/Best Buy/Amazon so they’re not exactly hard to find. If you don’t want a smartphone why are you spending 10x the price of the thing you want?
Are you really having trouble with call quality? Unless I’m so far out in the I don’t have signal at all it hasn’t been a noticeable consideration in years personally.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
Phones started skimping on ram, removed sd card slots, still put on insane markups for added storage (like seriously, companies still want hundreds more for a 512GB phone when the larger chip costs them like $10 over a 64GB.), removed the headphone jack, left batteries non replaceable, refuse to have bigger batteries, and have peaked on resolution and refresh needs.
The last couple years have provided Jack shit to make anyone with half a brain want to upgrade. Let alone the idiotic pricing. $1400 for a cell phone? That’s more than what companies are wanting for 80" tvs and gaming laptops now days. I can buy a 4,000 pound beat up used vehicle that still runs for $1400.
nutsack@lemmy.world 9 months ago
looks like shit. I can’t imagine these taking off. makes no sense
Altomes@lemm.ee 9 months ago
I know we’re supposed to be talking shit about foldables but I’d rather remark on how badly I want a rollable phone
castlepeak@lemmy.world 9 months ago
My main concern is durability. The inner screen is way too fragile to be used without giving it any thought. Until durability is addressed to a sufficient extent that the device hardware can outlast its software support with everyday use, I prefer to stay in candy bar phones without my tablet in tow.