Huawei will launch a tri-fold smartphone with 10-inch display next week
Huawei will launch a tri-fold smartphone with 10-inch display next week
Huawei has announced an event where it will debut a tri-fold smartphone with a 10-inch display, the world's first too.
Huawei has just announced a September 10 event where the company is set to launch the world’s first tri-fold smartphone which, apparently, has a 10-inch display.
I love how phone manufacturers are like "oh we cant do waterproofing and easy repair at the same time, its too complicated" and then they release one of the most mechanically complicated comercially available devices ive ever seen.
28I realized this completely misses the point, but the problem is actually dust not water. All these foldables are IPX8, meaning they are highly water resistant but not rated for dust and debris.
I completely agree with your repairability point btw.
9Ah ye i get you. I also comment like this sometimes.
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planned obsolescence sends its regards
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Call me when they release a smartphone that rolls up like old school window blinds.
12Why window blinds when it could roll up more like a snail?
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Screen durability and the distracting crease are the two biggest problems with foldables, so they are making a phone where a third of the screen is always unprotected, added an additional crease, and sharpened the radius of both creases. Hard pass for me (and most people), but this is more of a statement piece for their manufacturing and engineering prowess than a mass market product. Hopefully the advances they make will improve single fold devices.
4As someone on their second foldable, fold 3 now fold 6, the crease is truly, I promise you, a non issue. Unless you're doing detained drawing with the S-pen, not my use case, it has no meaningful effect on the experience. For single person consumption, you almost have to consciously try to position it in a way that's visible when watching a video, for example.
I'd actually miss the crease, as it gives the screen a kind of magic book-esque quality. The biggest problem with foldables in my experience is the odd aspect ratio universal to all of them, something a tri fold design may actually mitigate.
7As someone who had a fold 2 and now has a fold 5, I agree. I do like the aspect ratio, though. It's very nearly 4:3 when unfolded, which makes it perfect for pre-widescreen TV shows.
Evangelion looks great on it, for instance
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Why do screens need to fold at all? In folded mode an edge to edge screen is enough and in unfolded mode two more of those can combine to make one large display. It's the same as those led walls you see in places, made of edgeless panels that slot in next to each other. Curving the pixels is stupid.
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Seems like a really cool idea. Two problems.
It will be heavy and fragile.
How does it stay locked in the tablet form? Will you be able to use it without it folding? And if it does lock, how does it unlock and how tiny and fragile are those locks going to be?
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-1this is just becoming a thing and we will see 100x folding devices nobody asked for, isnt it?
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