Apple Foldable iPhone Launch Faces Delay Until 2026, Faces Design Roadblocks
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Apple's rumoured foldable iPhone (possibly iPhone Flip) might launch in 2026, but display crease, and design are roadblocks.
Apple's rumoured foldable iPhone (possibly iPhone Flip) might launch in 2026, but display crease, and design are roadblocks.
Haha wtf? Give me a new iPhone Mini instead please š
People didn't buy the last mini, so why would Apple do it again?
https://www.macrumors.com/2022/04/21/iphone-13-mini-unpopular-march-quarter/
Dozens of us did! š
I canāt stretch my dumb fingers to swipe down from the top with my thumb, one-handed, on a 14 or 15. The 13 mini is perfect.
The basic 14 or 15? Should have gone with the Pro.
Edit: Ouch. Didn't even realize they are basically the same size.
I'm still using a 11 Pro, which was 144mm H, while the regular 11 was 151mm.
From what I can tell from the above article, about 5% awesome people bought the iPhone 12/13 Mini.
It's called an apple watch now.
I would love a new iPhone with the same size as the first iPhone SE
Just skip this idea. No one wants this.
Bin this and bring back the mini so we can have a proper small form factor phone
If the foldable is the form factor of a mini, how would that go over?
Either is better than a 7ā inch phone like the Pro Max. But I donāt know how reliable the flip form factor is yet.
I had the first gen razer before my current mini and it stopped working after about 6 months of use. It just stopped reading touch input after flipping it shut one day.
Speak for yourself... I'm hoping google comes out with a flip phone Pixel. If I was an iPhone person this is exactly what I'd be hoping for.
I want a phone that folds up to be smaller than a normal phone so I don't have to have giant bricks in my pocket.
I'd gladly trade-in my 8pro for a foldable pixel, even though I don't want to change phones often...
The first person to comment below likes little boys
Iād buy this in a heartbeat lol
Same. I like the smaller form factor but donāt want to ditch screen space like the SE. And I prefer this style of flip over the giant tablet that folds down to a skinny screen.
But why?
Because Iām a millenial with a nostalgic craving for the satisfaction of a flip phone.
Ditch touch screen and give it physical buttons and weāll be on to something.
I love the idea of it but I have to agree, it's just less repairable and causes even more e-waste. Smartphone advancement is at a point where we could easily be using the same device for at least 8 years, but not if they come with planned obsolescence as a feature.
Let us change the battery...it's the major reason why phones feel 'slow' as they age.
I have the Samsung foldable (flip 4). It's a nice gimmic, but does apple really want to force app developers to support yet another form factor? That's supposedly one of the draws of apple development: you don't have to support every random screen size made by some third party.
People said the same thing about the notch in iPhone screens, and the removal of the head phone jack. They even said it about larger iPhones. And just like all these other "ideas" that should be skipped, people will buy it.
I still think the removal of the headphone jack was a very anti-customer move. It only benefited them to try to sell more earbuds.
Iāve known people that purchased the foldable android when it came out, they got rid of it.
I'm still proper pissed about this.
I love my giant iPhone and would never buy a foldable
Apple fans will buy whatever Apple makes them want.
Imagine what they're going to charge? Lmao
$2999 + $499 for a bendable case
Great. Now everyone will be copying Apple's foldable idea.
They're like the last ones to the party lol
Yes, but once again, the fanboys will hail it as an Apple invention.
Okay so since we're going back to flip phones, can we just get a frickin phone with a button keyboard again??
God yes.
I was looking at phones yesterday and thinking: do they make an actual, premium flip phone with keyboard a la the old Motorola Razr? It appears nobody does. All I could find were cheap shitty Chinese plasticky trash or phones made for the elderly.
I want something with a nice metal/titanium case, premium keyboard, decent oled screen, 10+ megapixel camera on itā¦ and something that I can snap shut like it owes me money. Donāt make it too small; I want a weekās battery life at least and swappable battery.
And I would - and Iām not joking here - pay 600-800 euros for that, depending on how premium the experience is.
I think thereās absolutely a market for that.
A weeks battery is insane, 7-10 times as big as the average battery now.
Back in the āsweet spotā of cellphone use, the late ā90ās, you could get several days of use out of a battery. Some only needed a weekly charge. I also donāt need or want a flip phone to do everything that a smartphone does.
Iām a big proponent of making phones bigger with bigger batteries. Iāve got huge hands and most phones feel dainty and fragile. Give me a house brick with a week long battery and Iād be perfectly happy. Making phones slimmer is just silly.
I don't mind phones being chonky, I mind them being large in other dimensions. I have small hands and my Pixel 7a is on the edge of what I can use comfortably with one hand.
I get about a weeks battery out of my Punkt, but I don't use it for much besides the occasional text or call. I suspect if I used it more I'd wager I'd get 4 days out of it.
Should be called iPhold
They wanted to make the IFlip but instead its an IFlop.
I'll see myself out.
Fuck no.
what is the benefit of this i don't get it?
Larger display but still compact in your pocket. Itās just a competitor to the Samsung flip phone
Yes, but you can rig the screen with a fingernail if you push hard enough. Tested it in store..
Do those phones sell that well? I held one recently and it doesn't seem very practical for someone that keeps taking their phone out back into their pocket often.
It has its niche. Those who like it, really like it. My friend is basically only going to go with flip phones from now on because it fits completely inside his pockets and that it can act as its own tripod.
I bet the screen is less prone to scratching from anything in your pockets
this is my thought too. i take my phone out hundreds of times a day and wonder how this would affect me if i had to unfold that much.
I'm the sort of person that takes it out of my pocket and puts it back a lot. It's not a big deal honestly, it feels good to open and close it.
I'm actually greatful for foldable phones. When they started actually coming out, I was certain that smartphones were feature-complete and my phone would never become obsolete again. If that weren't true, they would have put a new real feature in the phone instead.
Of all the foldable clamshell is the worst, doubling the width of your phone to save a few cm of height is so useless.
If itās gotta be a folding phone make it fold out into an iPad.
"a few" ... it literally cuts the length in half. For me personally, something like this is much desired. Having a 3x3x.5" block vs a 6x3x.25" block would be a major improvement.
But now itās twice as thick
Which I'm totally okay with. In some of my clothes my pockets are doing gymnastics to try and fit the giant brick (because the phone is a long as the full length of my pocket). If you don't have/like baggy pockets, these huge screen, long phones are a huge pain.
Having it be "twice as thick" means it's about as thick as my wallet (and I have no complaints with that).
Been using the fold from 2-6. While this statement is true from 2-4, def untrue for 5 and 6.
iPhone pro max weight 7.81oz. Fold 6: 8.43 oz
7% more weight
iPhone pro max: 8.25mm Fold 6: 12.1mm folded
So about 30% thicker and 7% more weight for essentials double the real estate. Seems like a no brainer for me.
I didnāt say the Fold was twice as thick as an iPhone. Any phone that you fold becomes twice as thick when you fold it.
Itās not a competition.
What? That's the dumbest thing. Of course it's going to be twice as thick if you fold it. Everything is. Water is wet and the sky is blue. No shit.
If they made a 6mm folded iPhone and the current iPhone is 8.5mm. that's actually an improvement over a previous gen iPhone and that is actually useful information.
Lol, you call what I said āthe dumbest thingā then immediately agree with me.
And then you try to win your pretend competition we werenāt having with a fantasy iPhone you just made up so you could be right, lmao
Okā¦
Been using the fold from 2-6. While this statement is true from 2-4, def untrue for 5 and 6.
iPhone pro max weight 7.81oz. Fold 6: 8.43 oz
7% more weight
iPhone pro max: 8.25mm Fold 6: 12.1mm folded
So about 30% thicker and 7% more weight for essentials double the real estate. Seems like a no brainer for me.
My thoughts exactly. I gain almost nothing with this design change, as compared to keeping the current or similar-to ābarā form and folding out from there.
Iām starting to have visions of Zoolander and his ridiculously small cell phone..
I donāt want that.
You'll buy it and you'll like it, dammit.
Fuck all the way off with this idea
Apple always the trail blazer....