I do not understand the appeal of these devices. Most of the time, it’s just a phone but twice as heavy and twice as think.
Then every blue moon you make it into a small subpar tablet?
this post was submitted on 26 Jun 2023
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It's for dads. For real, I just came back from South Korea and every dad had galaxy fold which makes sense as a family travel power phone. Only dads can pull off this absurdly awkward look of unfolding your tablet to take some off-angle pictures of a pine tree lol
For some people, even when have a phone, they still take pictures with a tablet
I commute by train everyday and having a tablet I can carry in my pocket is really convenient. I only recently got a Samsung Z Fold 4 but am loving it so far.
I hear you but to do what in small tablet mode? I'm genuinely curious what a small tablet gives you that a larger phone (which is lighter & thinner) doesn't?
It is much more comfortable to read the news, respond to e-mails, and do simple productivity tasks on a tablet. I can comfortably read an excel spreadsheet from work and so on.
I also really enjoy playing board games on Board Game Arena and the large screen makes it almost as easy as using a computer.
gotcha! though I'm dubious about "respond to emails" as typing on a tablet is less than ideal.
Samsung splits the keyboard to the left and right sides of the screen. I think it works pretty well.
It's the dream of just opening up your regular phone to have a small tablet, clashing with the reality that your phone will never be regular sized if you want it to be able to do this!
Maybe someday phones can be like 4mm thin, so doubling that for a foldable would be reasonable. But we are definitely not there yet.
I don't get his comment that Pixel have accelerated aging. From my experience it's the opposite.
I haven't watched the video yet but that comment might be based on his experience with the buggy Pixel 6 Pro? idk about that but Google might've ironed out all the bugs because my 6 Pro is now rock solid.
I'm on my pixel 6 pro since launch and was never really bothered by any of these, and those that were reported in the beginning have been fixed. I really don't see any accelerated aging here
My only experience was a Pixel 7 that was fantastic at launch, and then dreadful after a handful of updates.
I am on T-Mobile and they had to delay/cancel/unrelease OTA updates because of issues with the carrier network. I ended up having to sell the phone because it would not roam from tower to tower, it would drop signal and then latch to a new tower. You can just imagine how many dropped calls I had.
However my fiancee is still using her Pixel 5, which has been just like new since she got it shortly after launch, and another friend that is still using a 3XL since launch with no issues. Unsure if it should be chalked up to Tensor, or my bad luck.
TLDR : it’s the best foldable phone to use closed. Google hardware quality (means you better be lucky if you buy one). Good software. Bad battery.
Most of what he discussed I could live with.... except for such a poor battery life. 4 Hours screen on time? get out of here. that's as laughable as Apple's headset with up to an hour battery life LOL
4 hours screen on time is about what I get from my Samsung, that I'm trying to ditch.
And my issue with the Samsung isn't battery life, it's just the software. So I'm good with all of it lol
I feel like I'm getting way better than that on mine. I came from the 7 Pro and, yes, it did better than the Fold on day 1 when I had the screen open the entire time, through my work day (off and on when time allowed) I made it home with plenty to spare and I work 12s.
Pixel Fold v Galaxy Z Fold 4
Seifert talks about it all a bit more on his mastodon, too.
Fold 4*
Derp!
It's a real shame that a phone that looks that good can turn out so bad. Battery life is the killer here, hopefully Google will be able to improve by Gen2, otherwise I feel like Samsung will remain kings of the folding phone space.
It's the same as Samsung's fold 4: https://www.droid-life.com/2022/09/02/galaxy-z-fold-4-review-nearly-perfected/
4 hours of screen on time.
And from personal experience the same as Samsung's flip 4