Foldable smartphones have reached their fifth major generation, as heralded by Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Fold 5, and...

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.

  • Ogygus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    191·
    2 年前

    Cost

    durability

    Size

    difficult to repair (if not impossible)

    lack of sdcard (on such a large body)

    No open source ROMS

    • itsmect@monero.townEnglish
      2·
      2 年前

      I don’t mind spending on good tools, but I won’t buy a highly locked down device at any cost. An open source OS is a must, any new device will have to compete with my current phone that also has an SD card, headphone jack and is easy enough to open so that I can change the battery myself. Folding phones are inferior in all those aspects.

      • IronKrill@lemmy.caEnglish
        91·
        2 年前

        To double or more the storage for much cheaper than the internal storage upgrades cost… is that not enough? Even the folds don’t have more than 512gb and they cost over $1000. My sub $500 phone from years ago is running a 512gb SD card, which I can seamlessly slot into my next phone when I swap.

        • Guster@lemmy.worldEnglish
          210·
          2 年前

          Sure, but why do you need Storage in the first place? I have always had less than 100gb and it’s plenty for all apps etc. Everything else goes in the cloud

          • vizean@lemmy.worldEnglish
            111·
            2 年前

            Just because it works for you means it should work for me? I want more storage than you need.

          • IronKrill@lemmy.caEnglish
            1·
            2 年前

            Sure, let me pay the same I did for the SD card for half as much storage that will expire in a year ($40 for 200GB in GDrive). It’ll be super handy when I am on 250MB of cell data or have no reception at all and want to listen to my music in the cloud.

          • Ogygus@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            2 年前

            Why need storage at all?

            Have the thing connect to the Internet to do even basic tasks like answering the phone.

            A mainframe of sorts.

      • Ogygus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        2 年前

        To carry the backup data to another phone If it fails.

        To have my high quality music and movies with me, at all times.