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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!).

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Dungrad@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
A massive laptop that has 4 foldable screens attached

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- Steve@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Now that’s a phone
  
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  - remington@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    digitaltrends.com/…/aurora-7-seven-displays-lapto…
    
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- SteevyT@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Perfection.
  
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jarfil@beehaw.org ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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 15 they’ll come with a regular Linux VM (container? haven’t looked too much into that).

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