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[–] Zer0_F0x@lemmy.world 37 points 3 months ago

And unlike its predecessors, the battery gets punctured at the point of structural failure and combusts

[–] DuskyRo@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago
[–] xcjs@programming.dev 16 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'm upset that they'll make foldable screens before adding a physical keyboard "because movable parts break too often".

I don't see what would be the value in that anymore. I didn't use a phone with a physical keyboard in a while but I think a virtual 3x3 keyboard would be more comfortable.

[–] Stez827@sh.itjust.works -2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I mean a folding screen is just so much cooler than a keyboard

[–] xcjs@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Stez827@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I mean am I wrong tho like that's some star wars shit

[–] xcjs@programming.dev 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

I think cooler is subjective. With a physical keyboard back in the day and Remote Desktop, I had a pocket-sized Windows PC with me at all times. With SSH, I had a portable terminal I could easily administer servers around the world with. I thought that was pretty cool.

Now I'm tap typing on a device with no physical feedback where the keyboard hides half the screen and reshuffles my terminal output every time said keyboard is shown and hidden. That's not cool at all.

[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I have a foldable Bluetooth keyboard that I sometimes use with an ssh app on my phone

[–] xcjs@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

Try using it standing up.

[–] baatliwala@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Nobody thinks a physical keyboard is cool unc

[–] Stez827@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago

Yeah but like the screen folds. I agree that the keyboard has some uses. The folding screen doesn't really or not nearly as many it's just novelty cool. I personally don't have a use case for either so the more technically impressive thing (the folding screen) seems cooler to me. And you have to admit that the first time you saw a folding tablet phone thing it kinda blew ur mind or at least it blew mine.

[–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 11 points 3 months ago

2 years from now Google will be sued and offer a "free repair" (you arent eligable if theres even a scratch on the casing) or a "100 VISA gift card" (good luck receiving it)

[–] SPRUNT@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Still waiting for the rollable screen so I can pull out my phablet and unroll it like a medieval scroll.

"Hear ye! Hear ye!...."

[–] directive0@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Like the global links from Earth final conflict.

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago

DID YOU KNOW?

If you fill your phone with gravel, use a knife to interact with the screen, try to light it on fire, then snap it in half, it stops working?

[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 4 points 3 months ago

Once again man who breaks phones shows that phones can break

[–] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.today 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh, good... looks at my Pixel 10 Fold

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago
[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 months ago

I mean, on one hand this kinda comes with the territory of you ask me. I expected this phone to be a lot more fragile than my pixel 6 pro, even the overpriced case which barely protects it is a weakness.

I'll just have to be more careful.