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.
The phrase “what’s stopping you” implies we’re all interested, but hesitant.
This is a really, really bad assumption.
It also assumes there’s anything stopping us. I’m annoyed they didn’t have a “nothing” option on the poll. I’ve been loving my Flip 4 and hope they keep making options like it when I eventually wear it down.
Why are you not interested? I personally like the idea of either having a normal size phone that gets larger or a normal size phone that gets smaller. Are you saying you sre not interested in foldable phones at all?
Disinterest is the default position until something sparks interest. Asking why I’m not interested is, with respect, a nonsense question that can only have one answer: because I haven’t seen anything about it that sparks my interest. “It folds” is not enough to make me feel any desire to own one; I don’t care that it folds. I don’t need it to fold. To me, this is like installing a microwave in my vacuum cleaner. Like, sure, now my vacuum cleaner objectively does more stuff and “is better,” but that’s not exactly a feature I’m looking for in a vacuum cleaner, and size-changing is not a feature I’m looking for in a phone.
If you want one, you should get one. I’m glad the option exists so that people for whom “it folds” is enough to spark interest can be happy and have neat toys.
I respect your opinion although I cant see why you think foldable phones dont make the phone “better”.
Foldables have the potential to make phones better for some people. But better is always subjective. And in my opinion the current faults with foldables means they aren’t ready for me to use yet.
So the response to “what’s stopping you from getting a foldable” is: the currents faults in foldable. See? Its not too hard.
Foldable just means more things to break. How is that better?
The trade off of a phone being half as tall is it’s twice as thick.
I’m a man and pockets for men usually aren’t super short so the phone being tall isn’t an issue. And I definitely don’t want the phone to be twice as thick. Women’s clothes with their awfully small pockets I could understand. But I’m a big MFer so pocket size isn’t a problem.