There’s one problem that plagues every foldable smartphone, and the Pixel 9 Pro Fold perfectly encapsulates what that problem is.

  • @WoodScientist
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    98 days ago

    The point of not being able to take advantage of the screen size is really interesting. I wonder why they don’t design these to fold out into something with a normal phone aspect ratio, just bigger. That way you could actually take advantage of all the screen real estate.

    • @[email protected]
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      8 days ago

      I think its hard to have a foldable device that has a phone aspect ratio (2:1) when open and a reasonable size (and thickness) when closed.

      This could only be done like the flip phone (1:1 --> 2:1) or by multiple folds (like the triple fold huawei).

      • @Bookmeat
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        48 days ago

        They made metric paper. Time to make metric phones.

        • manucode
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          48 days ago

          1:√2 wouldn’t be the worst aspect ratio for a phone screen