I’d love to see a Japanese fan style phone 🪭 Maybe it folds up into a reusable straw?
If I can’t crumple it up and score 3 points to impress my coworkers, I’m not buying
I don’t want large phones that get even larger. I want a large phones that becomes smaller for my pocket.
Get a Fold 7. It’s the same size as your average flagship when folded. But be warned: Once you get used to having a tablet in your pocket, there’s no going back. It’s especially great for restaurant menus, mobile games, and YouTube.
I want a large phone that gets larger but the larger screen is an e-reader.
Huh… That’s not a bad idea, actually.
Thanks. It would be nice to combine my phone and Kindle for less money than a regular folding phone. It would cut down a lot on doom scrolling for me.
They sell those too
Yes, but they still have problems. But I’m noticing a trend in foldable phone designs, and I’m worried that by the time foldable phones get really good, the ones that fold smaller aren’t around anymore.
This is why I got a Razr. Once the technology becomes common, I dream of a regular size phone that shrinks to a matchbook or something.
Same here. I didn’t understand why anyone would want a double thick (or now triple thick 🫨) phablet that folds out into a full tablet.
The razr I bought two years ago is the first phone that comfortably fits in my pocket in like a decade.
I look forward to trying it whenever it gets below £1000 refurbished.
After reading through the comments and seeing the majority of people are commenting negatively but have never had a folding phone. i feel like i should chime in.
I have owns a fold 3 a fold 6 and now a fold 7, my wife has a fold 5 and we have never had one fail on us. No broken screens, no scratches or bugs. There are also several people where i work who have had at least 2 generations of these phones and also have never had issues.
I know these things break, but so does any phone. Phones breaking tend to be a user problem and not a hardware one. If you dont handle with care then you are the problem.
In fact i have only ever broken 1 phone in my 20+ years of using them and it was entirely my fault. I put it on a book on a table, then without thinking i lifted the book and it slid off and landed in a bucket of water. Pixel 1 not waterproof. My bad.
I guess i just think people are quick to judge these phones without ever having used one and i think thats so short sighted.
But what about 4 folds? 5? 6! Why stop there! 7-minute abs!
As another data point, I’m writing this from my fold 6 which is about one year old, with no scratches nor marks of any kind.
I have owned 3 foldable phones and any of them failed. 2025 is a year of Samsung. Fold7 and this TriFold. Amazing technology.
Good to know, my few experiences with folds (which I was quite fond of) where in the previous era of smartphones (so mechanical keyboard and no touch-screens) and the bending part evidenced always as a weak point in terms of wearing, in one occasion the failure point cause of the phone change. So, is there no evident wearing symptoms in the bending areas of these folding smartphones if treated with love?
I had my fold 3 for 4 years and my wife used it to get a feel for them after me and she very quickly got a 5. I had some of the paint chip off in places after a few years and one time that i got scared by something and jumped a bit and threw it out of my hand to the ground with the inner screen open (only cosmetic damage to the body) it survived a lot. A hell of a lot of engineering went into the hinge so its pretty much the strongest part of the phone. Jerryrigeverything on youtube has tried to snap these phones and they are very strong and so far have not broken in one of his tests.
Any phone can break, but i say if you care for your phone it should last. The 3 onwards have been really solid phones and the fears around them, to me, seem made up.
I had a fold three for almost 4 years and it was fantastic. And then upgraded to the fold six and had it for about a month open the screen on it and literally didn’t even close it and break it and drop it literally just picked it up opened it and it cracked in half I was so pissed. Going through the warranty process they could not get me a six or a seven so they sent me a check which unfortunately would raise my bill by over $100 because I no longer had a phone to trade in at this point so I finally just downgraded to a Samsung 24 plus and in about 6 months I’m going to trade this one back in to get the fold seven because I definitely don’t want to pay over $2,000 just out of pocket.
Good to know. Almost bought a Fold 6 but decided to fork over the dough for a Fold 7 instead (mainly cause I love how it’s as thin and light as any other phone when folded).
Thanks for making me feel a lot better about dropping $2K on this fucking thing. Best phone I’ve ever owned but I paid out the ass for the privilege.
Fool! This is the only folding phone any true man could need
That doesn’t look like a razr
Folding phones are so expensive that I consider it mandatory to have insurance. Samsung Care Plus, in Samsung’s case. I switched to a pixel pro fold so I could use Graphene and got whatever googles insurance plan is.
You should only take insurance on things you can’t afford to replace (like your house, your car). If you can’t replace your phone from savings, you shouldn’t buy a high-end phone.
Just because you can replace your phone from savings doesn’t mean it’s desirable to do so. The monthly payments for these plans are low, and they have saved me money with two full replacements over a period of about 5 years.
Typically an insurance doesn’t save you money. If it did the insurer would go bankrupt.
Unless you know you will claim much more than a typical insuree, because you break a lot of stuff.
Everyone I’ve know IRL with a foldable smartphone has a super obvious crease in the screen where it folds. It’s not broken, but it’s definitely fucked up.
Yes. There’s a crease in the middle of the screen.
But its invisible to the user when looking at the screen.
It doesnt impact using the screen.
Its barely there on the latest fold 7. Definitely more prominent as you go back through the versions. Regardless i have owned 3 generations of the phone and used my wife’s one so 4 generations total and the crease doesn’t matter. Hasnt mattered on any of them.
What do you think the problem is with there being a crease? What practical issue does it raise? Or is it purely an aesthetic issue? Becaus3 if it is, like i said, you cant see it when you are the one using it.
Fold 7 owner here and I can confirm that the crease is invisible during normal use. You have to purposely angle your phone in unnatural directions under a light to see it. My last phone was a Fold 4 and it was definitely visible then. Not anymore.
Whose brilliant idea was it to demo this with a wallpaper that looks like a shitty diagonal screen fold?
thats not the wallpaper… someone just had nails.
It’s to make a subtle “Z”
Commitment: 10/10
Execution: 0/10😲 Zorro is real!
Can’t wait to laugh at the first person I see using this monstrosity.
cant wait for the TeleVoneTM. a phone that flips to the size of a full 4k television
Bring back netbooks you cowards.
This technology is wasted on smartphones. We need this on laptop screens.
Nah its perfect, I always forget or dont wanna carry my tablet, trifold is the perfect size for reading comics when I feel like it. Also a decent size screen for shows and android desktop potentially. Android desktop seems to be moving towards linux support maybe. I stopped following along.
Oh, like a laptop that unfolds into an ultra wide?
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At least we know the folding will stop at 7.
inb4 rolled phone
Perfect for snortin’ lines lol
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why?
Because when you break it, the repair costs will keep funneling money back to them. I guess.
1K per screen according to Sammy.
Sticking with my pixel 3a xl running ubuntu touch/waydroid for a while it seems.
Not that I’d ever buy it, but I’m looking forward to the price tag so I can have a good laugh.
