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@polo_011 | 11 June 21 | |
@ mikeymk - 10.06.21 - 03:05am The complexity of a folding screen doesn't make much sense to me when it's so rarely needed - a second screen would be fine for things like the keypad or a second tab. I think the customer base is largely prepared to favour practical solutions over gimmickery, in the current climate. One of the main issues with modern phones, and one of the reasons some will find a compact foldable phone attractive, is damage by bending. Various models have suffered from this, with cracked screens, bent chassis, and fractured water resistance as a result of someone merely sitting down. So i think the next move should be in structural flexibility. Seems there's a market for a phone that could bend like a credit card, and it also seems the technology is there. Yeah the current situation with Foldables is not ideal and as you say customers always look for the most convenient factor, hence the Candybar/slab has stayed the mainstream go to for decades. I think the whole Z Flip design may be where it ends for Foldables, I was really excited for them especially after the Huawei Mate X2, but with all the Z Fold 2 issues Im seeing people having its not looking great, though Samsung prepared well for all that and seem to be treating the Z Fold and Z Flips as Public Beta devices. With the above being said I think the Slab form factor is here to stay for many years to come and Foldables may remain more a geek fest. I think even Apple are a little bamboozled by this foldable situation, unless some new screen tech is invented that can have slab like rigidity we may not see Foldables go fully mainstream, Im starting to think |
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@polo_011 | 11 June 21 | |
@ 3mel - 11.06.21 - 01:57am Android 12 Beta 2 comparison with Beta 1 yeah OneUI isn't gonna look anything like this. Lol, yeah will be good to see what Samsung do with all this, but the issue for me with Samsung is that because they put some much work into OneUI to be different from stock Android you may see them either ignore some of this cool UI stuff Google is doing in Android 12 or take longer to release Android 12 by trying to integrate everything into OneUI, they have painted themselves into a corner and for this reason I will always believe Samsung should have not given up on Tizen as that was a great out for them from Google. I miss the old Samsung that would always play around with different OSS, I remember them in the early 2010s playing with Symbian, WP, Tizen and Android, they are now too reliant on Google whole trying to also pander to Microsoft |
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@3mel | 11 June 21 | |
Samsung have put out a few Google Play Edition roms on variants of their regular lineup. having a stock android that's fully meshed and interfaced with the hardware is the dream. definitely going the GSI root once I get some extended computer time. that's as close as it gets for now and better than any custom rom (that doesn't exist either). |
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@crail | 12 June 21 | |
@ polo_011 - 11.06.21 - 09:12pm Lol, yeah will be good to see what Samsung do with all this, but the issue for me with Samsung is that because they put some much work into OneUI to be different from stock Android you may see them either ignore some of this cool UI stuff Google is doing in Android 12 or take longer to release Android 12 by trying to integrate everything into OneUI, they have painted themselves into a corner and for this reason I will always believe Samsung should have not given up on Tizen as that was a great out for them from Google. I miss the old Samsung that would always play around with different OSS, I remember them in the early 2010s playing with Symbian, WP, Tizen and Android, they are now too reliant on Google whole trying to also pander to Microsoft It's making them decent coin they're a business. Hope they're not getting complacent like Nokia did because that's not how you run a business |
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@3mel | 18 June 21 | |
@mikeymk | 19 June 21 | |
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Interesting phone. When new, I doubt that slight ripple would be an issue. But if the edge is susceptible to getting scratched when the phone is in its usual narrow form (given tempered glass doesn't bend) then that rippled line may be abraded also.
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@3mel | 21 June 21 | |
http://youtu.be/zVjzlkjC_m0 the Oppo expanding scroll prototype hands on
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@polo_011 | 28 June 21 | |
Qualcomm announces Snapdragon 888 Plus with 3 GHz CPU, better AI engine: https seems it only has a slightly improved AI engine and slightly faster clock speed, though I think every single improvement on AI engines should not be taken lightly.
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@3mel | 20 July 21 | |
@polo_011 | 21 July 21 | |
@ 3mel - 20.07.21 - 10:42pm What is Pegasus and How Does it Spy on You ? What nightmares are truly made of in the 21st century lol. I wish we could go back to when our phones were not seen as a potential way to spy on us. The days of Symbian and WM, these companies simply had no interest as phones were still somewhat rudimentary with slower data connections, nowhere days all of this state-of-the-art hardware is being used against us that 50Mbps - 1Gbps home fibre along with 5G, huge battery, super powerful SoC, top of the line front and rear cameras as well as high quality microphones that are riddled all over the phone means you can be spied on in 4K and that shyyte will come out looking like a Netflix special for whoever is spying |
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