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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 actually just want a very small but very functional smartphone since I currently don’t have a phone at all.
I just use my Tab S7+5G as a phone, been doing that since the S6. I’ve just recently ran into some issues where I might need a smaller device, e.g. to use some store app QR codes or similar stuff where you’d have to present your phone. Well… I can actually do that just fine, but pulling out a 12inch tablet makes you look like a dork.
To be honest, I’d wish someone made a non-folding phone with a the height of a folded folding phone lmao
I used it while traveling for a while and it worked great if you’re ok with how small it is. Very tiny, like forget its there tiny. I’d still probably use it from time to time if I hadn’t smashed it on account of it be so tiny. I was also doing hard manual labor whole traveling so that didn’t help with the smashing.
I love my fold 4, and as long as I can afford them, will never go back to a normal phone. I believe in holding onto phones as long as possible, and won’t be getting a fold5 or fold6 if my screen holds out becsuse that’s just silly. This one works.
I mmade the jump based on the following argument: People agree to pay $1200 for an XL model phone every year but why. 6.X inches has been the standard since like…the pixel 2. 5 years now? People keep buying phones every year for what? There was nothing new. It’s marginally, unnoticeablely faster. The screen wasnt getting bigger. The pixel 3xl was just a pixel 2xl but newer. (I bought my 3xl when 5s had been announced so I wasn’t paying full retail) There was no reason to buy new phones every year and stay paying money to my telecom. The features just did not add up year over year and felt stagnant. I bought a pixel3 only because the pixel2 battery started inflating.
If you own a budget model phone, a flagship is worth that cost. If you hang onto your phone for 3+ years, a new flagship is worth the cost. But if you have a flagship, made last year, why would you sign a lease every year, what does perpetually paying $50 a month actually do for you? Phones are stagnant. You’re just paying to not have an old phone, or you’re paying because you want the ego of having a new phone. (No judgement just how people are, being the first person with a noticably new phone and getting complements feels good, I would know lol)
So I said fuck it and got a Fold2 right as price dropped, when fold3s dropped. I signed for 900, and had it a year. People complain about size, the crease, the weight. But ultimately these are petty whines. You stop noticing it. Hold your iPhone Max. Hold your Galaxy Ultra. Now go pick up a tiny flip phone from 2005. Go pick up an iPhone 4, or a galaxy 4. Your phone now is huge and heavy. You didn’t notice it because you got used to it. Folds are the same way. I traded my fold 2 for a fold 4 because burgundy and camera bump was much better. Cases for the fold2 were hard to find and fold4 came with one. Otherwise I would still have the fold2.
Fragility. Treat your $2000 phone with respect. Based on some peoples screens you’d swear they use it as a fucking hammer in their spare time. I understand here is where people have issues. The plastic screen is a dealbreaker I get it. If you drop it, caseless, onto concrete yes you do run the risk of breaking it. People wanting a more durable screen is fair. Hard agree. Samsung is the leader in this field and noone is challenging it yet, so they’re slacking. I pay $8 a month for asurion insurance through my provider. For $150 if I total the screen I get a new phone no questions asked. I really can’t ask for a better deal than that. If you’re on the fence, and the fragile screen scares you, get insurance. I don’t blame people too much for being afraid of breaking it, but there’s options now, where there wasn’t with the fold 1 and 2.
And no, I’m not a samsung mouthpiece. The repairability on folds is fucking ass. If you dont have insurance, the big screen is like $700. On top of that, battery replacements are total wash because Samsung doesn’t believe in pulltabs. If fragility is your issue, I get it. Anything else? Nah you will be ok you just gotta get used to it.
First, the price point is stupid Second, I don’t trust a folding monitor to last Third, every other time I’ve gone to a platform that’s different from what 99% of apps are written for, I’ve felt frustrated because the apps didn’t take advantage of that and here I was with support for that but no benefit to me.
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