Samsung Galaxy Fold - First foldable screen smartphone from Samsung

The Huawei device certainly looks nice. As has been said, when they come down in price in a few years, I can imagine I might give one a go. The love of larger screens has been growing over the last 3 or 4 years, if you can have a 8+ inch screen that will easily slip in your pocket, I would think they could do quite well.

Orionaut said:
Just the other day there was a report on whether or not Alexia type devices should be programmed to grass you up to the authorities if it thought you were engaging in illegal activity.

And today we have this...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...acist-homophobic-comments-police-station.html

Orwell would be genuinily shocked at just how accurate his vision of a distopian future actually was!
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Seems an odd post to me. What does Alexa have to do with the article? They just bugged the place. Hasn't that been possible and happening for 40, 50, 60+ years?
 
No interest what so ever
I cannot think of more than a couple of instances where I would want a bigger screen to that extent.

I'm actually trying to think of the benefit at all. Maybe if you use public transport and watch videos ? Maybe if you play games and want a bigger screen
Sure I can see the appeal for some people. But if you just browse and call/message there's no benifit
 
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413x said:
No interest what so ever
I cannot think of more than a couple of instances where I would want a bigger screen to that extent.

I'm actually trying to think of the benefit at all. Maybe if you use public transport and watch videos ? Maybe if you play games and want a bigger screen
Sure I can see the appeal for some people. But if you just browse and call/message there's no benifit
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Said everyone when big screen phones came aboujt.

Again, this is a tech demo first and foremost. Imagine the world in a few years time when these are thin and light enough with a sensible enough price that you might as well have the phone in your pocket capable of doubling it's size at will.

Or tripling, or quadrupling.. then you potentially get back to something as pocketable as old timey phones with current day screen sizes only when you need them.

This is not at you personally but some of the comment here and on the various tech blogs is depressing.. people like Apple get told they can't innovate because they do it all behind closed doors and then release finished, polished product. Then anyone else who tries something gets shot down because it's not perfect day 1.

Seems we've all become rather spoiled.
 
matt100 said:
Said everyone when big screen phones came aboujt.

Again, this is a tech demo first and foremost. Imagine the world in a few years time when these are thin and light enough with a sensible enough price that you might as well have the phone in your pocket capable of doubling it's size at will.

Or tripling, or quadrupling.. then you potentially get back to something as pocketable as old timey phones with current day screen sizes only when you need them.

This is not at you personally but some of the comment here and on the various tech blogs is depressing.. people like Apple get told they can't innovate because they do it all behind closed doors and then release finished, polished product. Then anyone else who tries something gets shot down because it's not perfect day 1.

Seems we've all become rather spoiled.
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I see the case for some, and I see the future, I understand it can't be perfect first time.

I just can't see a use for me. At work I have a screen. At home I have a screen. On move I don't need a fold out. (I never liked tablets)

Obviously not every tech is useful to everyone. Not So much criticising the tech, just it feels Niche

For me it would need to be as capable as Windows OS, basically a pocket size laptop.

I only have use for phone and laptop.
I don't even use my Windows surface book in tablet form much.
 
Werewolf said:
I sort of like the idea, but I would need two things before considering it.

1: a cast iron, no quibbles guarantee that the screen will not break at the fold for at least 2-3 years of heavy use multiple folds/unfolds a day - I note they're saying it's designed to last thousands of folds, but design life vs real life often don't match in my experience ;) (and thousands of folds can be 3-5 folds a day for a year, I can open/close the cover on my tablet and ereader dozens of times a day).

2: A price drop to where I'm not going to be paranoid about losing/breaking/having it stolen ;)

I'd be more impressed and happy if someone released with an ereader design that folded out*, as IIRC they've been demoing ideas for that for at least 5 years with different tech/methods (from separate screens connected by a hinge or that work together when place next to each other, to foldable screens or screens that unroll scroll style).

*I still don't quite know why the likes of the Amazon A4/reference book size screen ereader hasn't had a replacement given how useful that format is for graphic novels, text books etc.
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Yep, a kindle a 1/3 of the size that can stretch out. Will make my poo breaks much better.

I do think this would be better than a phone.
 
I don't see why it couldn't be engineered. The hinge on your average bathroom door gets used thousands of times and still works fine. Curve a piece of paper thousands of times and it will likely still be fine. How do we know this tech wont be similar?
 
AndyCr15 said:
I don't see why it couldn't be engineered. The hinge on your average bathroom door gets used thousands of times and still works fine. Curve a piece of paper thousands of times and it will likely still be fine. How do we know this tech wont be similar?
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The items you have described are not a high resolution touch screen are they
 
Do you really think they won't have tested the device by having had a machine fold and unfold it thousands if not millions of times?
 
Tested maybe ,tried ? Only time will tell . Just another gadget we don't really need . I'd just like a phone that can make calls inside a building like my old 3310 did
 
Fortis64 said:
The items you have described are not a high resolution touch screen are they
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But this is new tech, a screen that can be bent/curved. How do we know it wont be just like bending a sheet of paper? As said, why would they go to market if it wasn't?

Fortis64 said:
Tested maybe ,tried ? Only time will tell . Just another gadget we don't really need . I'd just like a phone that can make calls inside a building like my old 3310 did
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So you mean a gadget you don't need. That's fine, you know you don't have to buy it, right? As I said above, this is not marketed at someone that would be happy with a 3310...
 
AndyCr15 said:
I don't see why it couldn't be engineered. The hinge on your average bathroom door gets used thousands of times and still works fine. Curve a piece of paper thousands of times and it will likely still be fine. How do we know this tech wont be similar?
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you just compare a flexible OLED panel to a single sheet of paper....lol.

If it's not obvious, an oled panel is made of a number of layers of different materials glued together. try gluing 6 sheets of paper together and flexing it like that ...
 
Either I'm not explaing myself properly or you don't understand what I'm getting at regarding the
james.miller said:
you just compare a flexible OLED panel to a single sheet of paper....lol.

If it's not obvious, an oled panel is made of a number of layers of different materials glued together. try gluing 6 sheets of paper together and flexing it like that ...
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My point exactly, wonder how a screen protector will work lol .
 
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