We have seen a few different varieties of fold-able phones pop up over the past few years. What are they and why should we care? Well, the idea of fold-able phones is pretty self-explanatory…they are touchscreen display phones that fold in some way or another, and continue to work as a touch display once folded. Why should you care? Well to be brutally honest, at the moment the results have been quite ugly, and so for the moment being, you have no reason to care. Concept designs that have yet to be truly released, such as the Samsung Galaxy Fold, the Huawei Mate X, the ROYOLE Flexpai, and other let down products are the best to be offered in this category of device, and they have ALL been huge let downs.
Taking the Samsung Galaxy Fold as an example, the phone promises to be innovative and exceptional in its usefulness for having two different size screens that can allow the user a wide range of capabilities, but also be a compact and easily portable phone one second, while having a vibrant and large screen the next. The problem is, instead of succeeding at both (or at least one), its failing in both categories. The small screen isn’t totally fold-able, but instead more bendable. It produces a ginormous gap between the two halves of the inner display, and makes the phone look like a this piece of paper that is halfway through being folded for a piece of origami. When opened up to be used for its larger more impressive display, there is a very obvious line that is splitting the screen in half in a very messy and distracting way, not to mention the worst aspect of the phone, in which its very likely that one half of the large display could simply choose to stop working at any moment and turn into a large white canvas that is completely unresponsive and useless.
These phones are expected to be the next revolutionary product, and guiding the way to a new innovative and creative design future. Instead, it looks like they may just end up being a nearly two thousand dollar paperweight.
What do you think?
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Samsung keeps reminding us that the Galaxy Fold is a huge embarrassment