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.
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.
Why are you not interested? I personally like the idea of either having a normal size phone that gets larger or a normal size phone that gets smaller. Are you saying you sre not interested in foldable phones at all?
Disinterest is the default position until something sparks interest. Asking why I’m not interested is, with respect, a nonsense question that can only have one answer: because I haven’t seen anything about it that sparks my interest. “It folds” is not enough to make me feel any desire to own one; I don’t care that it folds. I don’t need it to fold. To me, this is like installing a microwave in my vacuum cleaner. Like, sure, now my vacuum cleaner objectively does more stuff and “is better,” but that’s not exactly a feature I’m looking for in a vacuum cleaner, and size-changing is not a feature I’m looking for in a phone.
If you want one, you should get one. I’m glad the option exists so that people for whom “it folds” is enough to spark interest can be happy and have neat toys.
I respect your opinion although I cant see why you think foldable phones dont make the phone “better”.
Foldables have the potential to make phones better for some people. But better is always subjective. And in my opinion the current faults with foldables means they aren’t ready for me to use yet.
So the response to “what’s stopping you from getting a foldable” is: the currents faults in foldable. See? Its not too hard.
Foldable just means more things to break. How is that better?
My current phone still works.
Pretty much this. And they are still too expensive.
They’re prohibitively expensive, the aspect ratio is dumb, and the fold/crease is distracting as hell.
It reminds me of back in the '00s when people were getting the sidekick or whatever that “T” shaped phone was that Tony Stark had in Ironman.
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.
-Not durable (If you can damage the screen with your fingernail it’s not durable enough. Period.) -No headphone jack
- No expandable storage
- No removae battery
- Lack of support for folding screens in apps
- Extremely high prices
Everything this guy said, and is like to add ‘any desire to own a gimmick phone’
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.
Cost
durability
Size
difficult to repair (if not impossible)
lack of sdcard (on such a large body)
No open source ROMS
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.
Why do you need SD cards in 2023? Most phones don’t have this?
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.
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
Just because it works for you means it should work for me? I want more storage than you need.
For one thing- if you take lots of photos and videos.
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.
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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.
To carry the backup data to another phone If it fails.
To have my high quality music and movies with me, at all times.
I mean they cost at least a grand.
Yeah, the reason I won’t buy one is because they cost the price of 3 phones
Price
They don’t have the actual answer in their poll for me which is, you pay 1800 for the z fold but get the camera of the s23 basic model. Which is wild.
Give me the ultra cameras and I’ll buy it
Yeah, the price is definitely the big issue with those for me. I love the form factor (especially the ones that look like the flip phones of old), but I’m not paying triple what a regular phone with similar specs would be just for that.
Exactly this. I actually loved using the ZFold 4 when I tried it out, but losing the quality of the main cam and 10x zoom was a huge bummer for the price I was paying.
The Galaxy Note series used to have the absolute best cameras that would eventually come to the S line. If you’re going to charge a premium for a phone it needs to be the best.
Why? Are you in professional photography? All cameras after like 2020 are so good it hardly matters.
Source:I have a fold4
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I’ll break it
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I dont need what a foldable offers
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I don’t pay more than £400 for a phone. So that.
- My current phone works fine
- I can’t run CalyxOS or GrapheneOS on it
- They are way too expensive
I think the Pixel Fold can run GrapheneOS, support might still be experimental though
I don’t want one. It’s a cool technological feat, but like a transparent monitor or flexible keyboard, it just doesn’t make sense for my needs.
