Smartphone manufacturers still want to make foldables a thing::Foldables are barely 1% of the market, but that’s not stopping anyone but Apple.
Smartphone manufacturers still want to make foldables a thing::Foldables are barely 1% of the market, but that’s not stopping anyone but Apple.
Has no keyboard, mouse or touchpad so it’s not a laptop
Too small to be a tablet or a Notepad. Not that I care for tablets in the first place.
Too big to be a phone.
Not to mention insanely expensive.
They’re supposed to be “great for media consumption” but the square aspect ratio means it’s usually not much bigger anyway. And I don’t consume media on my phone either. That’s what 75" TVs are for.
Not saying you’re wrong. To each their own. Just my 2 cents.
I’ve never tried a folding phone but to me it seems like a jack of all trades, master of none. The 4:3 aspect ratio, black bars on basically all videos, and easily damaged screen seem like big negatives.
I’d be interested to see if I’m wrong if I ever get a chance to use one.
Android runs almost all USB keyboards and mice or touch pads, you can totally have that as an option for your phone. And it’s like 50 bucks to get a powered hub that can also charge the phone OTG while connecting all those USB devices at once.
It is the same size as as the common smaller form factor tablets have been for a decade. And note pads also have been coming in this size for over a century.
It is smaller than the average phone when folded into phone mode. Especially if we are not only talking smart phones, but even if.
They are indeed relatively more expensive right now, I got mine “open box” for half off, and it was about the price of a contemporary regular smart phone then. But they won’t always be this much more expensive.
You are not always near your 75 inch TV. It’s nice to have an acceptable option when out and about. Fold 4 also has spacial audio, you get your head about a foot away from those speakers in horizontal tablet mode, and boom, the virtual surround sound is surprising. (Anyone who has one and hasn’t tried it yet, take this moment to try it out then come back) (it’s pretty crazy, right?)
It is what we claim it is. Just my 2 cents. I hope eventually the price gets to a place where more people can choose it without having to worry about whether they can justify it.
Yes but they don’t come with one attached like a laptop.
Galaxy Fold has a 7.3" screen, which is barely larger than some of the non-folding displays. The iPad Mini has an 8.3". That’s about as small as they come and still significantly larger.
Not in external dimensions it’s not.
The tablet style ones are approximately double the price of a traditional phone. Or more depending on which ones you’d like to compare. I wouldn’t call that “relatively expensive”. That’s just expensive.
And you could have gotten a “normal” phone for half of that, open box. Or 1/4 the price of a folding phone.
And I don’t always consume media 🙂. Again, speaking for myself here.
I just use a normal phone (Pixel 7a)
For media consumption and stuff I have a rooted Lenovo Tab M9 running a LineageOS GSI