This is going to be like shaving razors, isn’t it? How soon before quad-fold phones?
this post was submitted on 02 Dec 2025
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A phone you can crumple up like a receipt before you put it in your pocket
That would finally be a convention to replace slamming the phone down in rage.
"Fuck you!"
crumples the phone
Well phones already vibrate so they're ahead of the curve in that regard.
I'm waiting for the twelvefold myself.
Not sure if we're talking about phone, razor blade, origami, or sword-making.
anything is a dildo if you’re brave enough
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Nice, it has twice as many failure points as previous folding phones.
Why have a single point of failure when you can have multiple?
Redundancy!
Whose brilliant idea was it to demo this with a wallpaper that looks like a shitty diagonal screen fold?
It’s to make a subtle "Z"
Commitment: 10/10
Execution: 0/10
😲 Zorro is real!
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You had me and then you lost me.
Samsung’s Most Versatile AI Phone, Powered by the Largest Screen
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Considering everyone I know with a folding phone has had a fault with the folding part of it - I don't think its the best idea from a durability standpoint to add yet another folding part.
If one screen or fold point breaks, you're now left with two unusable (but perfectly functioning) screens. Seems like an expensive gimmick to me.
Then they can replace more devices. Capitalism at work
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I’d love to see a Japanese fan style phone 🪭 Maybe it folds up into a reusable straw?
Not that I'd ever buy it, but I'm looking forward to the price tag so I can have a good laugh.
You know, it’s like 3 screens, so they can push you triple the amount of ads and bloat ware! Yay!
Why did they make the screens fold in? The Huawei Mate XT folds up in a z-shape, which imo makes more sense as you don't need a 'fourth' outer display anymore. Seems more efficient that way.
Because they're fragile. You don't want your screen to die on the first drop.
and you don't want it full of scratches, since cover glasses and protection cases will probably be quite complicated for these monstrosities?
*foldable tablet that can also make calls
This is a very cool piece of technology. The comments here naysaying about it seem odd to me. If it's not for you that's fine, but many millions of foldables have been bought over the past few years, and they continue to sell very well today
And they will continue to have big ass creases visible in the folding part
Only in real life, not in any of the marketing materials. So you only know how it really works after purchase.
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Impressive from an engineering standpoint and it's only going to get more refined. Give it 5-10 years and maybe they will be durable enough for regular use.
I don't want large phones that get even larger. I want a large phones that becomes smaller for my pocket.
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I guess i don't really see the point. Is there a strong use case out there, or is this a marge's potato? ("I just think they're neat")
What is the point of current folding phones? I still fail to grasp that. This, however, seems more clear. It's a phone that can become a full on tablet. This is a true transformation into an otherwise disparate device. A phone that becomes a slightly bigger phone is the real mystery to me.
When you try to look at a spreadsheet and there are too many columns even in portrait mode, I open up the phone.
For some reason nobody figured out "zoom all the way out" functionality on the phone yet
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It sucks. I know its not for everyone and for sure its gonna cost €€€€.
The foldable phone are fine, yet expensive and not so widely used.
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Why?
Yes, because the dual-fold phone did so great. Clearly the problem was a lack of folds
Sticking with my pixel 3a xl running ubuntu touch/waydroid for a while it seems.
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