If they made two screens that meet when you unfold it, with little to no gap, it would be almost the same and surely more durable. But no, it had to be the New Gimmick!
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orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 3 days ago
Lol I predicted this to friends months ago. Apparently the era of phones with hinges taught us nothing.
SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 3 days ago
embed_me@programming.dev 2 days ago
If they made two screens that meet when you unfold it, with little to no gap
Moving parts that maintain little to no gap, over time and use? It’s more difficult than what they’re doing currently
MIXEDUNIVERS@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
Well i heard the hinge is not the problem and is designed with a high durability. ;) Maybe they should have made a Keyboard on one side instead of a Folded screen
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Or… hear me out. Get rid of the hinge, make the phone smaller, put the screen on top and keyboard on the bottom half. I think people would love it.
Anchorxiety@reddthat.com 3 days ago
ButteryMonkey@piefed.social 3 days ago
This was my last dumbphone, I still have it in a box somewhere.
God I miss slide out keyboards. They were so tactile and nice. I had a sony experia pro for a while many many years ago, it was the last slide keyboard I could find that wasn’t a Bluetooth case. Was very sad when flashing roms borked my governator chip and it could never be off the charger again.. (it had an issue with upgrading and then downgrading, so playing with different roms was a bad idea)
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
The same idea was revived with the original Jolla phone. I wonder if it’s compatible with the Jolla phone 2.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Oh please…morons whine endlessly about the front camera notch, they will whine like a choir of Karens about THE GAP.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Humans are born with the supernatural ability to whine endlessly about any topic. Nothing is too perfect to be spared from this.
orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 3 days ago
It’s the addition of a moving part. That alone is a death knell for the device.
unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth 3 days ago
Except even the first generation Samsung folding phones seem to be sturdier than this.
orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 3 days ago
I should retract my statement after remembering how good the G1/HTC Dream was. The hinge on that thing was sturdy as hell!
a white G1 phone, otherwise known as the HTC Dream, with its sliding keyboard open
unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth 3 days ago
The problem isn't the hinge itself. Laptops have had hinges for ages without significant issues. The problem is the flexible screen that has to bend around the hinge. That's a significant engineering challenge. A challenge which Samsung is apparently much better at, even if Samsung's hinges definitely have their issues.
artyom@piefed.social 3 days ago
I think your memory might be fuzzy. Samsung had to delay the rollout of the new 1st gen Fold because of hardware issues that showed their faces before they even sold them to customers.
unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth 2 days ago
Nope, I remember it pretty precisely. There was a plastic film that looked like it was meant to be peeled off but wasn't. If you peeled it off, it broke the screen. But as long as you left it on, things were semi OK. In essence, it was sturdier - the design was "just" confusing for consumers. Samsung fixed the problem before a single device landed in the hands of consumers - which is what actually matters.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
I have been using a Fold7 for years. Stick to EV battery doom.
CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.today 3 days ago
I bought a used Pixel Fold at the beginning of the year because it was cheap. It was clearly used, needed a good cleaning and has some scratches when I got it. I’ve been using it heavily since, opening and closing it daily. There are a few dead pixels but I think those were there when I got it, otherwise it still works fine.