The phrase "what's stopping you" implies we're all interested, but hesitant.
This is a really, really bad assumption.
this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2023
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It also assumes there's anything stopping us. I'm annoyed they didn't have a "nothing" option on the poll. I've been loving my Flip 4 and hope they keep making options like it when I eventually wear it down.
Uhh the price tag? I just bought a new phone after 6 years of honoured service from my old one, payed the new one a whopping 300€ and it already felt like a rip off. Ain't no way I'm paying four digits for a phone.
My current phone still works.
Price. It's just too high to consider for me right now when I can get phones with the same computing power for half the cost
Price, durability, use case...
There's nothing about them that makes them worth sacrificing the first two above.
I don’t see the point of it. It might be smaller in height when folded, but it’s twice as thick. That doesn’t make it any easier to pocket.
It also seems unnecessarily over complicated. The folding screen technology also doesn’t seem mature (high crease failure). I would think at least one or two phone companies would design them so they just met at a bezel-less seam rather than trying to actually fold an oled/lcd screen.
Same with me. I just don't see the point. I can't think of a situation where I need my screen to regularly get bigger or smaller. It might be helpful once in a while, but not enough to get a phone that does that.
Cost
durability
Size
difficult to repair (if not impossible)
lack of sdcard (on such a large body)
No open source ROMS
I took the dive, got one and it's awesome. I browse Lemmy 95% of the time on my outer screen. I went with Motorola Razor+ because I'm not the biggest Samsung fan and I totally impulse bought it. Unless it's something that demands I open my phone, I don't really, and that was what got me to get it. Without the outside screen I probably wouldn't have gotten it, but totally glad I did.
Why the fuck would I want mechanical stress?
The price, the line down the middle, the hinge. Generally just not requiring any more screen space