Foldable smartphones have reached their fifth major generation, as heralded by Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Fold 5…
For me it’s definitely the durability concerns. I’ve valued my phone’s water and dust resistance since getting an ip67 phone years and years ago. My brother had a flip and a grain of sand in his pocket got under the display; when he closed the phone the display died. And they expect me to pay more for the privilege.
Paying more for a less durable device is not what I prefer to do.
My current phone still works.
The phrase “what’s stopping you” implies we’re all interested, but hesitant.
This is a really, really bad assumption.
It also assumes there’s anything stopping us. I’m annoyed they didn’t have a “nothing” option on the poll. I’ve been loving my Flip 4 and hope they keep making options like it when I eventually wear it down.
Uhh the price tag? I just bought a new phone after 6 years of honoured service from my old one, payed the new one a whopping 300€ and it already felt like a rip off. Ain’t no way I’m paying four digits for a phone.
I took the dive, got one and it’s awesome. I browse Lemmy 95% of the time on my outer screen. I went with Motorola Razor+ because I’m not the biggest Samsung fan and I totally impulse bought it. Unless it’s something that demands I open my phone, I don’t really, and that was what got me to get it. Without the outside screen I probably wouldn’t have gotten it, but totally glad I did.
They’re way too expensive. Moving parts such as the folding screen are just a focal point for stress, which is unacceptable given how expensive they are. I hate hearing that people can get dust in the hinge without anyway to clean it out.
You’re also paying for extra screens such as the one on the outside and the folding inner screen. This is just added unnecessary cost when you’ll never use both at the same time. I’m guessing the outer screens were added to reduce the number of times people unfold the phone over its lifetime, which gets back to my other point that adding moving parts just adds more issues than it solves.
Overall, I see it as a novelty at best. From the prices I’ve seen them sold at for the phones that turn into a tablet like device when unfolded, you can just buy a phone and a tablet separately for less. I think their purpose is to create a product more expensive than what the current flagship phones run, giving rich people something to spend additional money on to to show they have a lot of money and enough novelty for tech reviewers to discuss during reviews.
My clothes have pockets
I like my phones to be lightweight, thin, and durable.
Ya know, so I can have my phone at-the-ready when under a car, upside down trying to fix my sink, or when I only have half a hand while scarfing down some lunch.
Turns out a heavy-ass foldable doesn’t lend itself to doing any of that without risking permanent damage.
So Samsung, when your foldables are less than 200g, less than 72mm wide, fully ip68, and less than $1000 in today’s dollars, I will consider them. Otherwise, I’ve already got a perfect phone.
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First, the price point is stupid
Second, I don’t trust a folding monitor to last
Third, every other time I’ve gone to a platform that’s different from what 99% of apps are written for, I’ve felt frustrated because the apps didn’t take advantage of that and here I was with support for that but no benefit to me.
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Price. It’s just too high to consider for me right now when I can get phones with the same computing power for half the cost
Cost
durability
Size
difficult to repair (if not impossible)
lack of sdcard (on such a large body)
No open source ROMS
The price, the line down the middle, the hinge. Generally just not requiring any more screen space
Price, durability, use case…
There’s nothing about them that makes them worth sacrificing the first two above.
