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.

  • electrogamerman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    11 months ago

    I respect your opinion although I cant see why you think foldable phones dont make the phone “better”.

    • jsnfwlr@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      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.

      • electrogamerman@lemmy.worldEnglish
        14·
        11 months ago

        So the response to “what’s stopping you from getting a foldable” is: the currents faults in foldable. See? Its not too hard.

    • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      The trade off of a phone being half as tall is it’s twice as thick.

      I’m a man and pockets for men usually aren’t super short so the phone being tall isn’t an issue. And I definitely don’t want the phone to be twice as thick. Women’s clothes with their awfully small pockets I could understand. But I’m a big MFer so pocket size isn’t a problem.