The new home of /r/Android on Lemmy and the Fediverse!
Android news, reviews, tips, and discussions about rooting, tutorials, and apps.
🔗Universal Link: !android@lemdro.id
💡Content Philosophy:
Content which benefits the community (news, rumours, and discussions) is generally allowed and is valued over content which benefits only the individual (technical questions, help buying/selling, rants, self-promotion, etc.) which will be removed if it's in violation of the rules.
Support, technical, or app related questions belong in: !askandroid@lemdro.id
For fresh communities, lemmy apps, and instance updates: !lemdroid@lemdro.id
📰Our communities below
Stay on topic: All posts should be related to the Android OS or ecosystem.
No support questions, recommendation requests, rants, or bug reports: Posts must benefit the community rather than the individual. Please post to !askandroid@lemdro.id.
Describe images/videos, no memes: Please include a text description when sharing images or videos. Post memes to !androidmemes@lemdro.id.
No self-promotion spam: Active community members can post their apps if they answer any questions in the comments. Please do not post links to your own website, YouTube, blog content, or communities.
No reposts or rehosted content: Share only the original source of an article, unless it's not available in English or requires logging in (like Twitter). Avoid reposting the same topic from other sources.
No editorializing titles: You can add the author or website's name if helpful, but keep article titles unchanged.
No piracy or unverified APKs: Do not share links or direct people to pirated content or unverified APKs, which may contain malicious code.
No unauthorized polls, bots, or giveaways: Do not create polls, use bots, or organize giveaways without first contacting mods for approval.
No offensive or low-effort content: Don't post offensive or unhelpful content. Keep it civil and friendly!
No affiliate links: Posting affiliate links is not allowed.
Our Communities
Lemmy App List
Chat and More
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.
Miss my LG v20 with its IR blaster
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.
Dedicated porn panel
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.
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.
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.
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