After years of rumors and false starts, both Samsung and LG are preparing to unveil portable devices with folding screens later this year, according to a report in the Korea Herald (via XDA). Samsung is likely to produce 100,000 of the smartphone-cum-tablets in the third quarter, the Herald claims, while LG may manufacture the same…
via Samsung and LG both reportedly launching foldable phones in second half of 2017 — VentureBeat
I currently have a Kindle Fire for ‘reading’ and an old, Samsung Galaxy SII for ‘communicating’. I have checked the internet on the phone – once or twice – but the screen is much too small for comfortable reading. As a result, I use it almost exclusively for calls, EmergencyAus alerts, and as a camera.
If Samsung can give me the convenient size of a phone with the screen realestate of a tablet, I might just jump ship from the Kindle.
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May 5th, 2017 at 2:31 am
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May 6th, 2017 at 8:48 am
Hi Joel. I have a Kindle Fire as well, but only the 6 which doesn’t have the capacity to connect to the internet directly. If/when I upgrade I’ll certainly check out how to do that.
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January 13th, 2017 at 2:59 am
Interesting… but I really like having my reading device separate. I have a laptop, an iPhone AND a Kindle Fire. I travel with all three. Yes… it’s nuts, but I type so much faster on the laptop so it’s for writing and major communications and much of my Internet interactions and shopping and… The phone is for communicating. And the lovely Kindle is for READING… Ah how I love that device!
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January 13th, 2017 at 10:52 am
lol – I have the same types of devices, but I wouldn’t mind consolidating one or two. They get heavy!
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January 12th, 2017 at 9:24 pm
I think apple filed for a foldable phone as well.
Off to clamshell phones again! 😀
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January 12th, 2017 at 9:34 pm
lol – I liked them! I wonder if this phone uses some of the e-paper tech?
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January 14th, 2017 at 12:41 am
I *think* colored epaper is still expensive?
Perhaps an LCD with a flexible backlight instead or an OLED display.
(LCDs are flexible by themselves, it’s the backlight usually that is stiff.)
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January 14th, 2017 at 11:51 am
Ah hah…that sounds as if it could be right coz all new tech is a trade-off between tech and cost. Just from a fan-girl perspective though, I hope e-paper becomes a standard ‘thing’ soon. Imagine being able to roll up your mobile device/tablet/whatever? Or maybe it could fold up like an origami… 😀
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January 12th, 2017 at 10:38 am
I have a Samsung Galaxy Mini that our phone company in Spain gave me years ago. There’s no sim card in it, so I use it for the time and the weather, and sometimes as a calculator 😀
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January 12th, 2017 at 3:46 pm
lmao – oh Pinky…you’re even more of a Luddite than I am! Bravo. 😀
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January 12th, 2017 at 9:23 am
Interesting. I use my phone rarely for calls (!) for lots of sms, photos, social media and of course Etsy orders and updates. It’s a Sony m2, so late 2014, not sure if I want the extra fragility of a phone that folds; I’m frightfully clumsy!
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January 12th, 2017 at 3:48 pm
lol – hopefully this tech. won’t blow up. 🙂 Seriously, though, how do you manage to do all that on a phone? I know people do it all the time but I can’t work out how. Maybe I need even stronger glasses. -sigh-
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January 12th, 2017 at 6:33 pm
I don’t do much editing on it, nor do I shop, but it’s got a decent size screen, and most stuff is optimised for mobile. read the Guardian on it too, which is surprisingly comfy.
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January 12th, 2017 at 8:22 pm
-sigh- Sounds like I need new glasses then coz I can’t read anything comfortably on mine.
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January 12th, 2017 at 8:33 pm
Bless. I’d stick with using your pc and laptop then😉
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January 12th, 2017 at 9:34 pm
lol – need glasses for those too!
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