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Some iPhone Duo screens are already failing (arstechnica.com)
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[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Although I want a phone that folds half the size of a normal phone, not a normal phone size that folds out to a tablet.

You already got a joking reply to this with someone mentioning a regular flip phone, but Samsung does actually make what you're asking for, the "Z Flip" line of phones, which have been developed in lock step with the more popular Z Fold series. Most recent is the Z Flip8 from this year.

Image of graphite coloured Z Flip8

[–] jaygray91@piefed.zip 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And the Motorola RAZRs

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Google and Huawei also make them.

[–] jaygray91@piefed.zip 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm refering to the flip models. I forgot if Huawei still makes them, but Google definitely doesn't

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Supposedly Huawei is just about to announce their next Flip. Their last one came out in October last year. I think they focused on the Fold because they wanted to position it as the foldable iPhone competitor, plus it's the flagship for their new chipset.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I am going to have to look into the durability of those. I often buy my phone a few generations behind and refurbished.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 2 hours ago

I've had many foldables and I've never broken them, and I'm not gentle with them, it's not in a phone case, and being dropped several times. I think if it was dropped in the open state that might be a problem, but when it's closed it's actually protecting itself.

In some ways you're more likely to damage a traditional phone screen since it's always on the outside and it's made of glass and more likely to crack when dropped.

There's no scratches on mine but it is a fingerprint magnet. That's what you get for having a plastic screen.