Plastic screen on the outside seems nice when my gorilla glass screen still manages to scratch
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In that case there's no downside then
I honestly would prefer plastic screens coming back. The issue with scratching in the pocket is solved by screen protectors and my phones always hold the longest after they had a crack that didn't damage the display (internal stress is gone).
Gorilla produces two main categories: high drop resistance, and high scratch resistance.
It's not really possible to have both (hard vs flexible).
This is dumb and stupid
they can make intricate folding devices now.
but making them repairable is somehow fucking impossible.
It's not impossible for them to do. They just don't want to do it.
I don't want to cure cancer, I want to turn people into dinosaurs!
Gimme a fucking keyboard instead of extra screen size
they actually made one for this and it folds 🫨
Exactly, if you're going to add mechanical elements that will break it better be a keyboard
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I pick the category 'Things no one Asked For", for $25 Mr. Trebek.
Someone said the same about touchscreen when you were still a kid. If you don't want it, don't buy it.
I was an adult when touch screens properly took off, and I doubt this is in the same league.
There was some practical purpose to touch screens, whereas this thing is just unnecessary. I doubt it would have the same effect.
Having a phone that can turn into an iPad is probably going to get some use.
There is practical purpose to a touchscreen, the fact that short sighted people couldn't see its usefulness is my actual point.
The CEO was just conspicuously spotted with one of these a couple weeks ago, looks like it was a marketing scheme as we suspected.
This technology gets interesting, when I can unfold a full 27" 2k screen.
LG has a roll up screen. (prototype). More practical.
Cue the Scroll Phone^TM^.
I can’t even imagine the nightmare UI that would accommodate that type of screen.
Mechanically, I could see a device that has a slide down keyboard and a roll up screen. Functionally, I can’t see how it would be useful for daily smart phone actions like one-handed use or swipe-gestures.
Should just be a roll up projector screen and you wear the projector on your forehead like a lamp. Also it's a lamp and you can project directions on the street when you're lost at night.
Fuck Elon I got this. Give me money!
Sign me up for the Kickstarter.
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Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Folds.
Y'all are so stuck in the old linear thinking. Be brave, expand your mind. Rubik's cube phone when?
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I would be scared to drop this thing
this is going to be like the Gillette blades
That'd be cool. Buy one cheap phone frame, and a pack of 8 screen+electronics assys for $20,000.
One time foldable phones where already fucking stupid, whats the usecase for tri now
Just… why…?