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Folding Phones Are the Worst Thing to Happen to Smartphones (techlore.tech)
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[–] 25 points 1 week ago (15 children)

These are absolutely a gimmick. A fun gimmick for sure, but not worth the prices for flagship phones these days, especially when cheaper non-folding phones are more durable

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  • [–] 11 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I wouldn’t say it’s a gimmick, but I agree with being too expensive for what it is.

    I do a lot of reading (books, articles, manga, etc) and I love the idea of regardless of where I am, I can double the size of my screen and get some reading done.

    Also, Bloons td 6, I think this game benefits from a bigger screen.

    Alas, I already have an e-ink tablet and my phone is too recent, so I could never justify buying one of these. But maybe someday

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    My wife loves her foldable phone. Why when first one broke I got her another one.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (7 children)

    Had folding phones had a good stylus support, they would have been an absolutely amazing piece of tech. I remember only 2 Samsung phones had it, and then it got discontinued. What a bummer.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (6 children)

    The fold series still supports stylus

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (5 children)

    The latest fold doesn't. I double checked it, fold is now too thin to have S pen inside the body. And it likely isn't going to be supported in future generations either.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    They've never integrated the pen with the body afaik, wife and I had the 2/3/4/5,generally we just got a case with the Spen holder.

    Still though they function on the inner screen is my point, it is supported functionally.

    The outer screen tho doesn't work with the pen.

    Personally I went to a Pixel when I started having hinge issues on my 4, have become increasingly anti-Google so got graphene and homelabbed up.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago* (3 children)

    Not on fold 7 & 8. The stylus doesn’t work on either display.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Damn no shit, what a weird step back for no reason.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (1 child)

    I had three stylus phones over 6 years. Never used the stylus once. Ever. Samsung got user data back and ditched it.

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