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Forget small phones... I want bigger phones! Why do we keep making phones that appear to be made to appease people with small pockets‽
Bigger screens are better! Give me a great big tri-fold phone with a week-long battery (as long as it's under 10lbs it won't be a problem!). Actually, fuck that: Where are our backpack phones? We used to have them in WW2 and now we have the technology to make them even better!
I want the power to unfurl my monster phone to turn it into a portable 3-monitor gaming rig. Make it run regular Linux too so I can actually automate things and decide where I want to store my stuff (not in Google or Apple's clouds!).
For now, trifold are a gimmick, the screens break and the hinges get full of dust.
It's yet to be seen whether a trifold can be made into a similar folded size as a non-fold phone with similar capabilities, but even then... the resulting unfolded phone would need to be about 1/3rd the thickness of a normal phone, which is a lot to ask; by the time the technology is there, normal phones will be 1/3rd thinner too, so a trifold will again seem "clunky".
Backpack phones, is what we call "laptops" nowadays, some come with 2 extra monitors, or you can add them as an accessory.
Android phones cam run regular Linux via Termux, and starting with Android 16 they'll come with a regular Linux VM with GPU acceleration support.
Now that's a phone
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/aurora-7-seven-displays-laptop/
Perfection.