Lol, it looks like 2 phones sandwiched together.
On a more serious note, it looks nice, but I don’t like the idea of screens touching eachother (or God forbid, grinding something between the screens). I like my phones dumb and simple, then soup up the real computers to do all the heavy lifting and main use. Plus there can’t be any durable cases for this thing right? How do you get a screen guard on without causing hinge issues due to the new depth? It’s a fun gimmick, but it just ain’t for anyone other than power users and maybe book readers, I bet it feels fucking amazing for that.
I’m super interested in folding phones. However, the biggest issue I see is that most apps still don’t support the aspect ratios needed for the big screen. At what price point do you think this will start to make a dent in the market?
A folding phone would have to be in the $600 price range for me to buy one, I’d never buy a phone that costs more than that. But I’m definitely not an average phone user. I rarely use my phone.
As a user of a folding phone, the aspect ratio problem isn’t actually as common as I expected. The only apps I’ve had issues with are pokemon go, which refuses to acknowledge that wide aspect ratios exist, and Instagram, which sometimes struggles with the 3:4 screen since most photos are squares.
Also, it can easily be worked around by split screening apps with something else. I usually just run two instances of pokemon go, which then both work fine on the tall aspect ratio of half the screen.
Also, a bit of a niche use, but the 4:3 landscape is perfect for playing gamecube games
