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I'm usually good with evolving tech but I just don't get this one. Why is a foldable cellphone an improvement? This thing has got to me delicate and very easily damaged. What am I missing? First Foldable Cellphone ----------------------------- Guns are awesome because they shoot solid lead freedom. Every man should have several guns. And several dogs, because a man with a cat is a woman. Kurt Schlichter | ||
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Portability of a smart phone with the full screen of a pad. | |||
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I think the ones from Samsung will be folding inwardly, so much less fragile but also much harder to mass produce since the folding angle will be much sharper. | |||
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| Staring back from the abyss  |
I want one in a flip-phone style. I'd buy it in a second. Apple needs to get off their ass and make one. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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| Lawyers, Guns and Money  |
I used to have a Motorola Razor. It was my first Mobil phone and I loved it. "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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| I have not yet begun to procrastinate |
I use a 20 yr old flip phone. No camera, no nothing but a phone that calls & texts. People who give me grief over it being a 'dumb' phone get the response of, "Go ahead and try to hack it. I'll wait." They think I'm behind the times when I see that I'm now a trendsetter.  -------- After the game, the King and the pawn go into the same box. | |||
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Not really all that portable when the article notes it won't fit in a pocket when folded. And as if this one isn't spendy enough, the Samsung version is rumored to be priced around $2k.  Heck, I didn't pay that much for my laptop, desktop, and current cellphone combined.----------------------------- Guns are awesome because they shoot solid lead freedom. Every man should have several guns. And several dogs, because a man with a cat is a woman. Kurt Schlichter | |||
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| Muzzle flash aficionado  |
My flip phone with big buttons does have a camera and some limited Internet capability, but I don't know how to use them--it exists ONLY for me to make calls out in an emergency. I don't give out the number (don't know it) and it's not ON unless I'm making a call. Somehow, I manage to get by without all the fancy trappings. (And it really frosts my rear when others just assume that EVERYONE has a smart phone and create situations where one is REQUIRED to function with them.) flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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Well, the devil is in the execution, but the basic idea is doubling the display size. The trend now is larger and larger screens, at the obvious expense of portability. Few people want to lug around an iPad-sized phone, but if you could fold it.... | |||
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quarter MOA visionary |
Microsoft's Surface Phone if ever or whenever it comes out is supposed to be a foldable one. I think their issue is how to get universal apps to work on it as the OS part works or worked fine. | |||
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Don't you think there's a point of diminishing returns on phone size? Heck, some of the current crop of plus sized phones are pushing the limits of size versus portability. Maybe its just me, but my phone serves a select group of functions for me, but for the more complicated/involved tasks I have to deal with, I always tend to leave them to address on my laptop. ----------------------------- Guns are awesome because they shoot solid lead freedom. Every man should have several guns. And several dogs, because a man with a cat is a woman. Kurt Schlichter | |||
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I sure didn't butt dial as many folks with the old Motorola Razr.... ________________________________________________ "You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving." -Dr. Adrian Rogers | |||
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Not really from Vienna |
I broke numerous flip phones over the several years I had them. At least they were cheap. | |||
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| Oh stewardess, I speak jive.  |
A big phone that's also small is definitely a good idea. Sometimes I want a phablet type phone, and other times a flip type phone. One that has two screens - a smaller one viewable without unfolding it all, and a big one that folds out seamlessly (emphasis on seamlessly) would be great. A big phablet that foods down into a little razr-esque flip... sign me up. But it better fucking have a headphone jack and a MicroSD slot, too. | |||
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I agree. I was told that Apple is making a smart phone similar to the Razor sometime soon. I too would buy one in a heartbeat. | |||
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Get Off My Lawn |
I bought a foldable phone years ago  I still have and plan to switch to it in a couple of years. The battery is still great.  "I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965 | |||
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