In a new leak, Google’s latest foldable, the Pixel 9 Pro Fold, is on full display with its slimmer and symmetrical display bezels.

  • Plopp@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Who wants these foldable phones? I’ve pretty much never heard anyone say they want or desire a phone like this that folds out to become a stupidly small tablet. Phones that fold to get smaller on the other hand, like flip phones. Even i could imagine having one of those if it has a serviceable outer screen.

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      4 months ago

      Me. I read a lot of documents. Landscape is annoying, and portrait requires constantly scrolling left and right. E-readers are bigger than I feel like carrying everywhere. I want something that fits in my pocket, but I can use to comfortably read PDFs when I’m in a waiting room or something.

      On the other hand, I think the flip phones are basically a stupid gimmick and I can’t imagine a valuable use case. But different people have different needs, so let people value the features they value.

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        4 months ago

        so let people value the features they value.

        I didn’t know I was preventing anyone from valuing anything. I was just saying I’ve never heard anyone (except maybe Linus Sebastian) say they want one, but I’ve heard many people say they’re not interested in them. And I’ve heard several people want modern equivalents of the flip phone, which also was a very popular format back in the day.