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 😂
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! 😁
I can’t 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 7” inch phone like the Pro Max. But I don’t 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…
As an iPhone user, hard pass
I’d buy this in a heartbeat lol
Same. I like the smaller form factor but don’t 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 I’m a millenial with a nostalgic craving for the satisfaction of a flip phone.
Ditch touch screen and give it physical buttons and we’ll 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.
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
Should be called iPhold
Great. Now everyone will be copying Apple’s foldable idea.
Fuck no.
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 it’s 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 it’s 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 didn’t say the Fold was twice as thick as an iPhone. Any phone that you fold becomes twice as thick when you fold it.
It’s 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 “the dumbest thing” then immediately agree with me.
And then you try to win your pretend competition we weren’t having with a fantasy iPhone you just made up so you could be right, lmao
Ok…
My thoughts exactly. I gain almost nothing with this design change, as compared to keeping the current or similar-to “bar” form and folding out from there.
I’m starting to have visions of Zoolander and his ridiculously small cell phone…
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.
what is the benefit of this i don’t get it?
Larger display but still compact in your pocket. It’s just a competitor to the Samsung flip phone
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
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.
They wanted to make the IFlip but instead its an IFlop.
I’ll see myself out.
Okay so since we’re going back to flip phones, can we just get a frickin phone with a button keyboard again??
Fuck all the way off with this idea
Apple always the trail blazer…
