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  • If you look at Google's Android phone market share (currently 1.1% according to https://www.appbrain.com/stats/top-manufacturers), and consider that the foldable version is probably the least popular model in this not-really-popular phone family, it becomes understandable that they're not investing heavily into R&D for it...
    by rob74
  • I drop my phone a lot, I have a great case for it so not a scratch after 6 years. I am interested in getting the foldable but apparently the cases don't protect the hinge or let dirt get in? Anyone have experience with this? Maybe I'm not the right audience, too clumsy
    by belinder
  • The crease makes it look cheap and fragile, like with many of the foldable phones.

    I'm curious what people need the huge screens for on phones? Is it mostly for watching videos?

    by Archer6621
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    by chungy
  • I think everyone lost their damn mind, possibly during Covid.

    New iPhones used to be $199 and when they went to $299 the decision was seriously questionable.

    Now they cost like a used car, everyone buys $1000+ iPhones without batting an eye, insane.

    This one is $2000, I wouldn't get it if I had a billion on principle.

    by eahm
  • I picked up a Z Fold 8 for a test device, in order to optimize my app for folding phones (also in anticipation of Apple's folding phone), and the squat form factor really seems like something out of the future (certainly something different), I like it way more than I thought I would, the front is convenient for a lot of quick scrolling, checking things, and the wide 4:3 inner screen is really great for content viewing and web surfing. Even the front screen alone is better for content viewing then the traditional slab phones.

    I like it so much I'd consider a non folding phone in the squatter form factor as well.

    by havaloc
  • > trapped in a shape everyone else seems to be moving on from.

    Really not sure if we were ever there. Foldable phones still feel like a novelty that is expensive and fragile, among other tradeoffs. Also moving on to what, exactly? The regular slate form factor is what people buy, and have been for years at this point.

    by rf15
  • I remain an irreductible fan of the one-hand theory, and therefore stick with an iPhone 13 mini. I might be late at the folding-phone revolution.

    Alas it seems we won't see any such phone that fits in a pant's pocket and that can be operated single-handedly. I am afraid that the 13 mini is the last of its kind.

    Yet many reports of people dropping their gigantic phones. Maybe that's a business model after all.

    by harrouet

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