be honest.

[datn@xoxo.zone]

be honest. when you first heard about or saw foldable mobile devices, likely years ago, how did you feel?

[wra@visitors.sk]

@datn When I saved enough money for a foldable phone (I believe it was some Ericsson at the time), sliders came so I went for that…

[datn@xoxo.zone]

@wra do you mean that the display was foldable (which is what I meant) or do you mean that the phone itself was foldable, like a clamshell or "flip" phone?

[unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz]

@datn

I think something like "cool but impractical"

[ftranschel@norden.social]

@datn I had a Motorola Moto Razr and I'm not gonna lie I more than once screamed at it to pretty please beam me up.

[wra@visitors.sk]

@datn “Foldable mobile device” and “years ago” got me confused, sorry

[datn@xoxo.zone]

@wra my bad, I should have been clearer. I was riding on the context of today's news about Apple's foldable iPhones

[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.

[stonebear2@hachyderm.io]

@datn Just gimme a device that runs ONLY WHAT I TELL IT TO, please and thank you!!! #deGoogle

[anke@social.scribblers.club]

@datn That might be cool, but I worry about the devices being overly fragile.

[datn@xoxo.zone]

@Anke you and me both!

[mainec@fromm.social]

@datn do you refer to foldable smart phones or do you refer to foldable feature phones?

[datn@xoxo.zone]

@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)

[vektorgarten@mastodon.social]

@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.

[watarutenkawa_1@social.vivaldi.net]

@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.

[benc@mastodon.hawaga.org.uk]

@datn Psion series 3, in Byte magazine... and even then it was the hinge and/or ribbon cable that kept breaking.

#Psion

[thelastpsion@oldbytes.space]

@benc @datn As long as there is JB Weld in the world, we will keep repairing those hinges.

[elduvelle@neuromatch.social]

@datn my first mobile phone was foldable, and that was about 20 years ago, it was great but also normal at the time

[hnapel@mastodon.social]

@datn

A solution that didn't have a problem. Extreme engineering challenges FOR WHAT️ Boardroom porn. Make phones thin in a race to the bottom, then fold them to make them twice as thick again, where did that logic come from?

[catmisgivings@stranger.social]

@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