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The Pixel 9 Pro Fold perfectly highlights the big foldable problem – nothing is 'right' yet (9to5google.com)
submitted 2 months ago by BookSwiftieAndrew@kbin.earth to c/android@lemdro.id
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There's one problem that plagues every foldable smartphone, and the Pixel 9 Pro Fold perfectly encapsulates what that problem is.

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[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] cron@feddit.org 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

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@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They made metric paper. Time to make metric phones.

[–] manucode@infosec.pub 4 points 2 months ago

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

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