@[email protected] to TechnologyEnglish • 9 days agoHuawei unveils world’s first tri-fold phone, the Mate XT Ultimate Designspillsomebeans.comexternal-linkmessage-square119fedilinkarrow-up1210arrow-down130
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•9 days agoPedantic nit: this thing doesn’t have three folds, the name is nonsense.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish11•edit-29 days agoPedantic return: it has 3 screens with 2 connecting hinges, it is therefore trifold. trifold in American English (ˈtraiˌfould) adjective triple; threefold having three parts a trifold screen
minus-square@gedaliyahlinkEnglish6•9 days agoBifold means something that folds into two parts. Consider the bifold wallet or bifold door.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•9 days agoHow can something fold into one part then ?
minus-square@gedaliyahlinkEnglish3•8 days agoI guess the same way you slice something into one piece. Bisect is one less than trisect, so what’s one less than bisect? Maybe the problem is that the phone is rectangular. I bet they could do it with a polygon with just two fewer sides. ;)
minus-square🏝Skoob🏝linkfedilinkEnglish6•9 days ago2, with 1 hinge. It’s like a normal phone but the screen number increased twofold.
minus-square2001aCentenaryofFederationlinkfedilink9•9 days agoThe suffix “fold” in this instance refers to the number of parts, not the number of folds. As confusing as that is.
Pedantic nit: this thing doesn’t have three folds, the name is nonsense.
Pedantic return: it has 3 screens with 2 connecting hinges, it is therefore trifold.
trifold in American English (ˈtraiˌfould) adjective
And two fold is how many screens ?
Bifold means something that folds into two parts. Consider the bifold wallet or bifold door.
How can something fold into one part then ?
I guess the same way you slice something into one piece. Bisect is one less than trisect, so what’s one less than bisect?
Maybe the problem is that the phone is rectangular. I bet they could do it with a polygon with just two fewer sides. ;)
2, with 1 hinge. It’s like a normal phone but the screen number increased twofold.
The suffix “fold” in this instance refers to the number of parts, not the number of folds. As confusing as that is.
Trifold wallet tho