Foldables are barely 1% of the market, but that's not stopping anyone but Apple.
  • aname
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    11 months ago

    They will not become a thing as long as they cost 2000$

  • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Budy, all I want is a linux phone without a bunch of proprietary, binary blobs that aren’t supported after 2 years, and a thick, replaceable battery that lasts me 3-5 days on average with daily usage.

    With the amount of money they are dumping into these gimmicks, they could instead be significantly changing the market by improving ARM or RISC-V linux and making highly portable computers that fit in your pocket and that you can just plug into a screen where you go. They could merge the mobile gaming market with that of the desktop and console market that way for example. One unified OS with the same APIs and frameworks and whole host of native programming languages.

    They could rival laptop manufacturers with their low-power, portable devices. Or even enter the OS market that way by providing a linux distro that they can sell and maintain.

    I dunno… just anything but these damn foldables.

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    • shutuuplegs@reddthat.com
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      11 months ago

      You will never get that battery if it makes the device thicker. I was in the industry, we made smartphones with a two day battery. Full on thick, in direct response to customers asking.

      None sold. Period. It was something like 8-10mm thicker.

      Everyone looked at the one with the thick battery then the thin and bought that.

      • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
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        11 months ago

        Purism made the Librem 5. It’s a chonker and has bad battery life and they only sold a few thousand units. However, if rappers can make dumb phones and sell out 10k units in a few days, I dare say there’s a market for thick phones with good batteries, it’s just that rappers and celebs do better marketing and have a wider audience.