Android @lemdro.id Blaze @lemmy.zip 2 mo. ago

Huawei’s new trifold phone costs more than a 16-inch MacBook Pro

www.theverge.com Huawei’s new trifold phone costs more than a 16-inch MacBook Pro

Prices start at 19,999 yuan (about $2,809) for 256GB of storage.

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All models are equipped with 16GB of RAM, and two additional storage variants are available that cost 21,999 yuan (about $3,089) for 512GB and 23,999 yuan (about $3,370) for 1TB.

They are learning from Apple about the memory price. $300 for 512 gb additional ~~memory~~ storage is insane.
- You're right, it is insane(ly cheap) for Memory, a bit overpriced for storage though
With how my Galaxy Flip has held up, this thing will be unusable in 6 months. There's no way it will lay flat for long with regular use.

I'm waiting for rollable screens to become a thing.
- LG had a partial rollable prototype before they stopped making phones
  
  Yeah, LG always had awesome concept phones, a bit of a shame they’re not doing phones anymore.
  
  I know rollables are coming, just a question of how long until they end up in a consumer device.
  
  They were innovating new geometry so the button placement could be even less convenient.
- I'm sure this screen will roll lol
Trifold is a newish technology while laptop are very standard. Make sense that it's as expensive
Folding tablet. We've left phone behind at this point.
This is a form factor that is actually interesting to me instead of having a double-sided screen.

If it fits in a pocket I assume the battery life is atrocious, though. If it doesn't fit in a pocket, why bother having it over a tablet?

I'd read more into it but that price is outrageous.
But a trifold phone is way cooler than a laptop so of course it costs more.
- Wtf u doing with the 3rd panel? I don't see the point
  
  I think it's just a fancy way to make a phone turn into a tablet, which I don't see much point in. Or rather, I do see the point just not the appeal. Now if they made a Surface style tablet-laptop I'd take a second look.
  
  The third panel turns it into a proper 16:9 display, like you would find on many tablets and laptops. The pointless part is the second panel, which has a weird aspect ratio that is not natively supported by media (letterboxing in basically all videos) and many apps.
  
  Dedicated porn panel
  
  The whole thing just turns into one big screen.
I still think it’s bifold !
- It uses the nomenclature from brochures etc. Trifolds have two folds but 3 panels.
"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."

Kinda cool though tbf. Wrappable tech would be an awesome next step, like a watch that’s all screen that you can completely wrap around your wrist.
- The screen would get smashed immediately.
Super cool concept. But I will never own another Huawei.
Soon-to-be trifold crack the first time it’s dropped.
Having the flexible screen facing externally on one fold seems quite reckless considering how fragile they still are by virtue of needing to be flexible. Having a Fold 4, the screen definitely relies on the thin film screen protector that the flexible screens come with. But because the screen is contained internally, it's protected by the device.

Having it unprotected means any drops on a surface that is able to hit the screen directly will most likely lead to cracks in the LED layer and kill the screen. And the geometry of the folded part would imply that any impacts will most certainly lead to cracks. You can test this by folding a piece of paper in a similar manner and then hitting the folded part. It'll make tiny very sharp creases in the paper, and these creases are what kills the screen.
- More reason to get the newest model. Folding Phone as a Service
I'm glad companies are continuing to innovate, but it feels wrong to be moving towards mechanical inventions again when we've finally nailed solid state tech. Have we forgotten how often printers used to break?
- I'm old enough to remember when printers DIDN'T break. I'm sure lots of HP Laserjet II's from the 1990s are still cranking out hundreds of pages per day today. Same thing with Okidata dot matrix printers from the era, for those who still want to use them. It was later when printers became crap.
All that for an Android lol?
- Huawei runs it's own branch of Android since it lost its ability to offer Google services.
  
  In the case you're not paying for "Android" but for the tech, whatever you think about it it's a tech that no-one else is yet doing, least of all Apple which in real terms is still playing catch-up with Android and it's insistance of a walled garden .
- 2500$ for a slab of silicon with chewed on apple ain't much better lol

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