I feel like its a bad idea for people to buy these. I mean… the screen are weak plastics that can get damaged by a fingernail. Seems like an expensive buy for such a terrible durability. A terrible deal in my opinion.
What even is the use-case for these, anyways?
I have a Pixel Pro 9 fold and the original Pixel Fold before it. Frankly, for me, it’s like going multi-monitor for the first time. I can’t go back.
It fills all my tablet use cases while also being a tablet that I actually have on me whenever I need it. I’ve had so many tablets over the years, in all manner of sizes. They all collected dust in a matter of a couple weeks because I would always forget them or forget to charge it or it just wasn’t near me when I wanted it.
My biggest use case is remoting into desktops on the go, a boon for WFH though it isn’t perfect because I have yet to find an remote desktop app that fully takes advantage of the split screen functionality.
Though it’s not Samsung with their fancy productivity focused features, I still find having 1 app on each side to be very useful, especially when I’m on a Lemmy posting binge LMAO
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Movies and shows are a meh, the aspect ratios are…weird and you don’t gain as much size as you think because of the resulting black bars. But I’ve never been one to watch TV and movies on my phone like that, except on a plane
Interesting. Definitely makes me continue to be interested in them. First time I went multi monitors it’s quite freeing. Then when the lockdowns hit I made sure to get a second monitor for work (and play lol).
Only thing ia that the price of foldables is still too expensive for me. And idk if I want to buy used from tech junkies’ not-shiny-anymore when the next shiny comes out.
I second the multi-monitior comment. I absolutely love my fold and I think that’s a great analogy.
It’s hard to say it’s worth the money though. I personally think it is, but I wouldn’t recommend most people spend $1500+ on a phone in general unless they have a really specific use case.
Yeah that’s the thing isn’t it. To try if multi monitor works for you or not for PC / laptops is cheap. Just get any cheap monitor and you’re golden.
Not so with phones.
Although in a sense for mobile I did have a go with multiple screens with my LG Wing. And even then it’s still such a nice experience just having a small squarish screen to offload anything and have the main screen open whatever I have to focus on
Got it on deep discount after LG exited the mobile space. Got a Korean version and they did good updating it to Android 13 like they promised.
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I had a Galaxy Fold 5. I had a Fold 3 before this. I bought the 3 used for $800 to try out the form factor. The screen on the 3 split, but Samsung still gave me $600 in credit towards a Fold 5. No hardware issues with the 5. I doubt I’ll ever go back to a smaller phone because of the work related tasks I can do with the additional screen real estate.
For me the killer app is being able to review VRT failures. Before the Fold, I had to have a tablet or my laptop handy to avoid potential delays. Now I can review a VRT failure anywhere. This has allowed to spend more time with my kids. Worth every penny.