Silly Season: iPhone 17 and foldable rumors

throAU said:
Until they can make the phone as durable as one without a fold and the fold 100 percent undetectable when open, and cost no more, I have zero interest.
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I think a lot of people (including myself) are in that boat with you. With all the problems attempting to achieve any of these three goals, let alone all three at once, I expect folding phones to remain a niche item.
 
A corner-case outlier, I would like to have a 3-piece phone: a storage unit that would always sit in my pocket, an iPhone 1 sized logic unit that I could tote around and use for actual calls but not much else, and large attachable touch screen unit (sized to my preference) for doing internet stuff.
 
mr_roboto said:
I think a lot of people (including myself) are in that boat with you. With all the problems attempting to achieve any of these three goals, let alone all three at once, I expect folding phones to remain a niche item.
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Pretty much.

Foldable phones is a solution looking for a problem.

Fact is, I can fit a screen "big enough" into my pocket for that use case. If I need bigger, its going to be awkward to hold in the situations I'd use a phone at which point I pull out the iPad or laptop which has far more processing power, memory, a real keyboard, etc.

If I want a bigger screen, we're only a few years off it being displayed on some AR sunglasses which will enable a 180 degree field of view augmented reality display... at which point the shitty folding screen idea becomes kinda.... shit-tier...

I just don't see the point, especially if it impacts the cost or durability of the device.
 
throAU said:
Pretty much.

Foldable phones is a solution looking for a problem.

Fact is, I can fit a screen "big enough" into my pocket for that use case. If I need bigger, its going to be awkward to hold in the situations I'd use a phone at which point I pull out the iPad or laptop which has far more processing power, memory, a real keyboard, etc.

If I want a bigger screen, we're only a few years off it being displayed on some AR sunglasses which will enable a 180 degree field of view augmented reality display... at which point the shitty folding screen idea becomes kinda.... shit-tier...

I just don't see the point, especially if it impacts the cost or durability of the device.
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Kinda like lambo doors. They look neat, but there isn't any practicality for them.
 
rdrr said:
Kinda like lambo doors. They look neat, but there isn't any practicality for them.
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Worse than Lamborghini scissor doors.

They actually work pretty well in a confined space because the car is so wide - you can actually open them without needing 3 parking spaces of width.

This foldable display shit? NO use.
 
Wishful hoping... but I wish Apple would get rid of the new camera button that they introduced with iPhone 16 pro. I've turned it off on mine because I kept accidentally clicking it.
I like everything else about the phone , but have not gelled with the camera button at all. TBH I find it gimmicky.
 
tomO2013 said:
Wishful hoping... but I wish Apple would get rid of the new camera button that they introduced with iPhone 16 pro. I've turned it off on mine because I kept accidentally clicking it.
I like everything else about the phone , but have not gelled with the camera button at all. TBH I find it gimmicky.
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I tried so hard to use this, but the half-touch stuff is too easily triggered so I am always changing settings (i know i can disable that, but..)…

Here’s how they SHOULD have done it. Move the button all the way to the right (bottom) of that edge. Have it stick out a little bit. Half-press focuses/locks AE/AF, full press shutter. Like a camera. If they were worried about it clicking in your pocket, they can use capacitive sensors to make sure a finger is on it. But camera makers figured out how to make this work ages ago.
 
swk9 said:
So it's been a few months since I got my mom the Google Pixel 9 Fold and the feedback has been interesting. She uses it mostly like a regular phone and rarely opens it because she says it's just a bother to open and close it. She says it is nice to have a big screen when she has a web page to read but for videos the square aspect ratio makes it less than amazing and usually she just watches the video on the smaller display especially because it's easier to open it up just a bit to use it like a kickstand, which is probably her favorite thing about the phone since it stays up much more stable than kickstand cases she's tried before.

My mom used to be an Android user with Samsung and Motorola for years before switching to iOS until this Google Fold but yet she says she prefers the iOS in general, she thinks iOS just "feels" better organized and icons and graphics look better to her. But that could just be that she doesn't like the relatively vanilla Android version on the Google Pixel.

She doesn't hate it but feels pretty ambivalent about the Pixel and is already wondering about switching back. She says she'd rather have a phone with one big screen especially if it's less heavy than her old Pro Max. Perhaps she would've liked it more if she's more of a long-form text reader on her phone.
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Another update. The big folding display just broke out of nowhere. It wasn't dropped or even used all that much. My mom opened up the phone and scrolled around when suddenly the half the screen went black. Now she *really* hates the phone. Maybe it's an opportunity for me to pass along my 15 and get the new phone in September?
 
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