Foldable smartphones have reached their fifth major generation, as heralded by Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Fold 5...
For me it's definitely the durability concerns. I've valued my phone's water and dust resistance since getting an ip67 phone years and years ago. My brother had a flip and a grain of sand in his pocket got under the display; when he closed the phone the display died. And they expect me to pay more for the privilege.
How would “I already have one” apply to a poll a poll specifically to find out why people who don’t have one haven’t gotten one? If you already have one, the poll isn’t for you.
I have a galaxy flip. It is a great phone. I do though, have many creases in the center fold which have developed over about a year and a half’s use. They don’t generally inhibit any aspect of its functionality, but as unsightly. When the screen is lit with bright content they are not really visible if I’m not looking for them. If it is dark content I see them and it is bothersome. I have the phone because I want the smallest form factor in my pocket. I’ll probably have to upgrade soon as the creases get worse. I will probably try to get a phone without a folding function. Possibly a dumb-phone so further scale down the size of my mobile device. Increasingly phones have become avenues for direct advertisement instead of functional use. I no longer need a device that buzzes every ten minutes with some esoteric notification. Folding was novel and useful in size, but it highlighted my motivation was to reduce use.
I have the s22 regular for the same reason of wanting a really small phone. The size of the iPad mini would be my perfect phone but I also want the option to take notes these days so I may choose a larger phone in a few years.
My VELVET doubles as a drawing tablet when I’m away from the big pen display I have at home. And it can(itself) use portable monitors. I won’t buy just any popular-fad-phone, I want a replacement-goldfish
I really just cant stand the weird plastic-looking screens they all have on the inside.
Also yeah being anywhere from double to triple the price for something that I think looks objectively worse than a regular glass phone screen is just… not gonna happen.
Mix of cost and it doesn’t actually benefit me at all. I buy a cheap phone and it does everything it needs to, i don’t need to add a 0 to the cost to get no actual benefit for me.
Probably makes more sense for people that actually use their phones for work or something.
My current phone is going strong still and I dont spend more than 200$ on a phone period. Im pretty sure most foldable phones are still 500$+. Besides I like that my phone has a protective case in case of dropping and half of it is both scratch and impact resistant. With these folding phones they seem very fragile and scratch prone. I heard the glass over time gets creases but that was a while ago and they may have improved on that front.I had my fun with flip phones in the 2000s with tracphone, not really a new gimmick for me.
The purpose of folding a phone is carrying it in a more pocketable form.
I don’t need that because I’m a man always with regular pockets which are fine for carrying a Pixel 6 Pro screen.
If I wanted a bigger screen, I would also want a keyboard and a mouse. So you could say that I’m freaking hyped for the upcoming DEX-like desktop mode coming to AOSP. Video-out on a Pixel, fucking finally.
My current phone still works, too expensive, durability concerns (my current phone would not be working were it a foldable), center crease, looks like a pain to repair (right to repair hell yeah!), and most importantly…
…why? What do I gain by going with a foldable? My current phone doesn’t need to fold to fit in my pocket, and it doesn’t have so many compromises.
My ex has one. She used it half folded to prop it up to take pictures. That’s come in handy quite a bit actually. Also I like that you can close the phone to hang up calls. Sometimes I have to navigate back to the call app to hang up and it just feels ridiculous how hanging up is a multi step process if the call app isn’t open. Lastly, pocket space, I prefer the folded phone than a full sized.
I likely won’t get one for the same reason as you.
It all comes down to the gimmick not being worth an additional thousand euros to the price of my phone.
I don’t think durability would be a problem for me as I already baby my glass back device and I haven’t been using screen protectors for years with no problem. The downgrade in cameras isn’t that big of a deal for me as most pictures I take are macro, and as it turns out phones nowadays are horrendous dogshit at it anyway.
I think I’d enjoy the gimmick, I used to own a flip phone as a teenager, it’s just not worth a thousand euros extra. I’d probably add another 150 or 200 euros to my pixel to buy a folding phone.
I actually used to have one, but even though I was very careful with it, the screen kept breaking from normal everyday use. Eventually, my phone insurance decided they’d no longer cover this type of phone due to it being too fragile, so I went back to using a regular phone.
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