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@datn do you refer to foldable smart phones or do you refer to foldable feature phones?
@mainec the former. i meant to say "smartphones with foldable displays". sorry for the lack of clarity!
Dan Patch (@datn@xoxo.zone)
sorry for the lack of clarity, folks. I should have said "smartphones with foldable displays" -- I was too close to the recent news that Apple is going to make foldable smartphones.
XOXO Zone (xoxo.zone)
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be honest. when you first heard about or saw foldable mobile devices, likely years ago, how did you feel?
@datn My vote applies to flip phones. I had one for a decade, still the phone I had the longest. Still regret having to replace it because the battery died.
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be honest. when you first heard about or saw foldable mobile devices, likely years ago, how did you feel?
@datn I'm a combination of 2 and 5. It sounds like it would be really useful to have, but I would worry about lifetime.
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be honest. when you first heard about or saw foldable mobile devices, likely years ago, how did you feel?
@datn Psion series 3, in Byte magazine... and even then it was the hinge and/or ribbon cable that kept breaking.
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be honest. when you first heard about or saw foldable mobile devices, likely years ago, how did you feel?
@datn my first mobile phone was foldable, and that was about 20 years ago, it was great but also normal at the time
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be honest. when you first heard about or saw foldable mobile devices, likely years ago, how did you feel?
A solution that didn't have a problem. Extreme engineering challenges FOR WHAT
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be honest. when you first heard about or saw foldable mobile devices, likely years ago, how did you feel?
@datn I'm abstaining because I wasn't in the market for a cell phone when the Motorola StarTAC came out
Some of my favorite handsets have been clamshells
I'm intrigued by recent folding phones but I tend to keep my phones a really long time so I've stuck to the glowing glass rectangle variety because I think they would last longer
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be honest. when you first heard about or saw foldable mobile devices, likely years ago, how did you feel?
@datn@xoxo.zone Foldable device, great, space for physical buttons. Foldable screen, not for me.
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sorry for the lack of clarity, folks. I should have said "smartphones with foldable displays" -- I was too close to the recent news that Apple is going to make foldable smartphones.
@datn Good catch
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@datn I'm abstaining because I wasn't in the market for a cell phone when the Motorola StarTAC came out
Some of my favorite handsets have been clamshells
I'm intrigued by recent folding phones but I tend to keep my phones a really long time so I've stuck to the glowing glass rectangle variety because I think they would last longer
@catmisgivings sorry for my lack of clarity -- i did mean just the more recent smartphones with folding displays
Dan Patch (@datn@xoxo.zone)
sorry for the lack of clarity, folks. I should have said "smartphones with foldable displays" -- I was too close to the recent news that Apple is going to make foldable smartphones.
XOXO Zone (xoxo.zone)
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@wra my bad, I should have been clearer. I was riding on the context of today's news about Apple's foldable iPhones
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be honest. when you first heard about or saw foldable mobile devices, likely years ago, how did you feel?
@datn .0
Old-school flip phones are fine.
Foldable screens are a stupid form of planned obsolescence. I have absolutely no interest in them.
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@wra my bad, I should have been clearer. I was riding on the context of today's news about Apple's foldable iPhones
@datn Oh, so they finally went for it… Missed the news…
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be honest. when you first heard about or saw foldable mobile devices, likely years ago, how did you feel?
@datn I was pretty excited, and I've now had a Z Flip (currently on a Z Flip 7) of some form for years now. Still really like the form factor, and haven't had any issues with the fragility
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be honest. when you first heard about or saw foldable mobile devices, likely years ago, how did you feel?
@datn In school I had a Sharp EL-9000 calculator. Foldable. Eventually the folding circuitry failed. Any folding electronics I see today, I remember the loss of my favourite calculator.
Sharp EL-9000 Super Scientific - Hayden's Calculator Site - calculators.haywalk.ca
Sharp EL-9000 Super Scientific - calculators.haywalk.ca
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