I’ve had a flip phone for about 4 years (Z Flip 3 and Moto Razr 50 Ultra) and the crease is really not noticeable in normal use.
Agreed, from the Fold6. If you’re looking at it off axis, it’s QUITE noticeable, but during normal use when I’m looking at it head-on I don’t notice it visually. If I’m using it in landscape, I can feel it while scrolling - it’s the sort of thing that you expect to bother you, but it’s just not a big deal once you’re used to it.
I agree. I laughed at these phones long ago for many different reasons…one of them being the hideous crease.
The thing is that the crease is super noticeable to observers, but it essentially disappears when looking at it head on unless you’re in like bright sunlight or something. Angles are so important here. So I see why non folding phone users balk at the crease…it’s so prominent to them! Actually using it is a different story that you don’t realize until you hold one in your hand yourself!
100%! And, 6 generations in the tech is pretty well advanced now. I don’t mind being an early adopter, but with folding phones being so fragile and early ones having hideous and unusable cover screens for instance, I was fine waiting it out the issues until it was a bit more mature. They’re still getting continuously better, it’s a great time for anyone into the idea of a foldable.
I feel like the consumers who get these devices are definitely tolerating a lot of compromise just to have the toy. It’s vulnerable to so much going bad and even when it’s perfect and factory new, many of the ones I’ve seen are not quite flat and you can definitely see the crease very noticeable.
So I suppose sufficient consumers were willing to accept a device that is not quite there yet, as a way to finance the manufacturers’ further refinement of the feature. Personally I would not. If I ever get a folding one it’s going to be when it’s perfected and the fold is seamless and undetectable.
I’m currently on my Fold 5. Started from Fold 2, 4 and then 5. My wife who is currently on 6.
In between I have used Pixels and iPhones.
The Fold is a productively monster. I can have up to 4 screens running simultaneously.
I can be on a zoom call and work on the slide the slide or PowerPoint at the same time. I can plug it into a monitor and a mouse and keyboard.
There is a price to pay for this innovation. It is constantly breaking. So I pay for the insurance. It’s totally worth it.
I’m on my second foldy phone, there are compromises yea, but it’s really not as bad as you think it is. The crease as-is just isn’t all that noticeable once you’ve actually started using it on the regular.
Plus, it’s not just a toy, it comes in real handy whenever I need to remote into my work computer to do some work because something took longer than it should have
It’s the best small tablet ever, because for once, it’s a tablet I actually have where and when I need it the most lol
no crease and a screen hardness of at least 5 is the minimum before I get one
Idk…glass has downsides too. You drop it and it can shatter. I remember when glass on phones first got big and I saw shattered iPhones everywhere. My brother’s iPhone has shattered back glass.
Still to this day, I kind of wish plastic would make a come back in phones. For some reason every phone nowadays has to be coated in glass on all sides to feel more premium for some reason. Even the backside of the phone has it on devices now. It’s odd to me. Plastic housing is just so much more durable.
I’ve been using my current foldable for 1.5 years and the inner screen is flawless. There are absolutely zero scratches. I wouldn’t say I baby the thing at all, although I also don’t use it like a gorilla. I just use it like a normal phone except I use some common sense things. Probably one of the biggest is just not having the soft screen exposed and unfolded while in a pocket or bag. I fold it up before I put it in a pocket.
It’s hard enough to shatter victus glass that I legitimately don’t care about this anymore and would rather have the scratch resistance, maybe making it that shatter resistant and also foldable is impossible, in which case I would just not get a foldable
If it’s folded while in your pocket or bag, why do you need hardness? Do you plan on folding a phone with sand on the screen?
On that note, I don’t think I’ll take my folding phone to the beach on my upcoming holiday
Fingernails currently scratch them… and I have those
I can’t say I have had that problem. I think you need to put force behind your nails to scratch it, my nails aren’t kept short either
That’s not possible. Hard things can’t bend like that.
Yeah I’ve heard this argument, I don’t think we can be completely certain, willow glass by corning is an interesting proof of concept at the very least, crazy tech thought to be impossible has happened before
It is still possible to make 90% of that screen harder and keep only the crease as the weak point.
There’s also creating an extremely thin hard layer ontop of a soft one
Moving on
That’s fine man, but you don’t have to tell us about it.
