Post #1483495
2026-04-16 09:19 UTC
Replies (18)
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@datn@xoxo.zone 2026-04-16 09:48
sorry for the lack of clarity, folks. I should have said "smartphones with foldable displays" -- I was too close to the recent news that Apple is going to make foldable smartphones.
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@wra@visitors.sk 2026-04-16 09:31
@datn When I saved enough money for a foldable phone (I believe it was some Ericsson at the time), sliders came so I went for that…
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@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz 2026-04-16 09:36
@datn I think something like "cool but impractical"
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@ftranschel@norden.social 2026-04-16 09:38
@datn I had a Motorola Moto Razr and I'm not gonna lie I more than once screamed at it to pretty please beam me up.
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@stonebear2@hachyderm.io 2026-04-16 09:56
@datn Just gimme a device that runs ONLY WHAT I TELL IT TO, please and thank you!!! #deGoogle
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@Anke@social.scribblers.club 2026-04-16 10:17
@datn That might be cool, but I worry about the devices being overly fragile.
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@mainec@fromm.social 2026-04-16 10:25
@datn do you refer to foldable smart phones or do you refer to foldable feature phones?
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@vektorgarten@mastodon.social 2026-04-16 10:38
@datn My vote applies to flip phones. I had one for a decade, still the phone I had the longest. Still regret having to replace it because the battery died.
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@WataruTenkawa_1@social.vivaldi.net 2026-04-16 10:41
@datn I'm a combination of 2 and 5. It sounds like it would be really useful to have, but I would worry about lifetime.
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@benc@mastodon.hawaga.org.uk 2026-04-16 10:41
@datn Psion series 3, in Byte magazine... and even then it was the hinge and/or ribbon cable that kept breaking. #Psion
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@elduvelle@neuromatch.social 2026-04-16 10:54
@datn my first mobile phone was foldable, and that was about 20 years ago, it was great but also normal at the time :)
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@hnapel@mastodon.social 2026-04-16 10:55
@datn A solution that didn't have a problem. Extreme engineering challenges FOR WHAT⁉️ Boardroom porn. Make phones thin in a race to the bottom, then fold them to make them twice as thick again, where did that logic come from?
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@catmisgivings@stranger.social 2026-04-16 10:55
@datn I'm abstaining because I wasn't in the market for a cell phone when the Motorola StarTAC came out Some of my favorite handsets have been clamshells I'm intrigued by recent folding phones but I tend to keep my phones a really long time so I've stuck to the glowing glass rectangle variety because I think they would last longer
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@petererer@fuzzle.me.uk 2026-04-16 10:56
@datn@xoxo.zone Foldable device, great, space for physical buttons. Foldable screen, not for me.
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@Sir_Osis_of_Liver@beige.party 2026-04-16 11:28
@datn .0 Old-school flip phones are fine. Foldable screens are a stupid form of planned obsolescence. I have absolutely no interest in them.
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@erictgilmour@mstdn.ca 2026-04-16 11:58
@datn I was pretty excited, and I've now had a Z Flip (currently on a Z Flip 7) of some form for years now. Still really like the form factor, and haven't had any issues with the fragility
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@controlc@mstdn.ca 2026-04-16 13:45
@datn In school I had a Sharp EL-9000 calculator. Foldable. Eventually the folding circuitry failed. Any folding electronics I see today, I remember the loss of my favourite calculator. https://calculators.haywalk.ca/view?calc=sharp%2Fel9000superscientific
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@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com 2026-04-16 22:03
@datn You mean like… my Motorola Razr in 2004?