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Smartphone manufacturers still want to make foldables a thing::Foldables are barely 1% of the market, but that's not stopping anyone but Apple.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 10 months ago (16 children)

Once they are cheaper and more durable I'll buy one. Its still a new form factor that hasn't been perfected yet, but that doesn't mean its wrong for manufacturers to keep at it

[–] BallShapedMan 29 points 10 months ago (12 children)

To add to this my wife got the Samsung Flip or whatever, the one that folds like an old flip phone.

Every year she's had to have it replaced because the screen cracks in the middle. Fortunately we have the insurance so it's only $5 to replace it. She just got her third phone this week.

[–] AdaleiM 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I had that issue with mine, turns out there's a screen protector on the screen when you get it. once I peeled it off I was good as new, although now the screen itself is starting to wear.

[–] lambchop 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Didn't the folding phones originally get destroyed by people removing the factory screen protector?

[–] BallShapedMan 1 points 10 months ago
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