Foldable Phone - Gimmick or FUTURE of Mobile Tech? Foldable Tablet! By Ivan Kam

Okay, so mobile folding technology is upon us, and we've seen it with phones. You know smartphones and also tablets. Now is this the future of mobile technology? Let's go ahead and talk about it. Now, over the years we've seen you know, tech manufacturers try their best to remain to be and remain as competitive as they possibly can, and that meant trying new things trying to think outside the box and trying these new things also meant trying new form factors. Now, I'm not going to go back all the way back to like the sidekick and seeing all those different form factors, but if you look as far as just the past few years- and you take a look at some interesting form factor that we've seen, and I'm talking specifically in the case of folding phones, for example, where it went from what people originally thought was just a gimmick. You know people always thought a folding phone is a gimmick to something pretty ubiquitous to the extent where companies that usually play safe are actually giving this new and very interesting form factor.

A second look- and you know I don't want to go too deep into the details, but I want you to think about it in a very simple way, just conceptually in a very simple way, if you think about just the concept of the folding phone, you know something that opens up into a huge screen. So you get that huge amount of real estate of screen real estate and can fold into something that you just put in your pocket. So something convenient enough that you can actually carry around in your pocket, along with the fact that there is actual practical usage of this technology, at least in my opinion. Now imagine that same scenario that we just went over. You had a phone that folds open into kind of tablet.

I guess now so imagine that scenario this time around with a tablet it's expensive but available. Indeed, remember the Lenovo ThinkPad x1 fold, and some of you may have seen it already just in pictures or even just watch videos on it. I believe MHD dropped the video on this and some other mega YouTubers that dropped videos on it. So you have something like that. That falls into kind of like a book.

You know, and it avoids you the spares you the inconvenience of carrying a large laptop. I'm sorry, a large tablet, if you don't have you know the means of carrying it in a more convenient way because of its kind of bulky size and it kind of gives us a preliminary or more of a glimpse into that segment of the folding market. And now, with that same spirit, without delving too deep into you know which company makes foldable phones and which companies don't you have to think about the fact that even the almighty apple, you know, I just want to say that the almighty apple actually has a few foldable iPhone patents. Granted a company like Apple would put patent on everything, including dirt, if they could do that, but still it tells you that you know with them showing interest and showing such serious interest. It tells you that the future is definitely foldable by the way if you are visiting for the first time.

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They already make the best tablet on the android platform right. So you have those two factors truly playing. You know in the favor of Samsung, so the first one being they make the best tablet out there on the android platform, the second factor being they are possibly the best foldable phone manufacturer out there, and I'm saying possibly because I know there are quite a few out there that are actually very good. In my opinion, it's the best foldable phone out there, the z full two or maybe the upcoming z43, so those two equal just more foldable devices in the future. In fact, a few months ago there were rumors of this folding tab by Samsung that would drop sometime next year like sometime at the beginning of next year, and that also you may have seen pictures.

Of course, it's all rumor, but very, very exciting stuff, and- and I want to make one thing clear here- I'm not saying that Samsung is the only company that makes foldable devices again, I'm pretty sure. I've said that at the beginning, in fact, a company like TCL, which is actually a company, that I really like then made a prototype tri-foldable tablet. Well, they called it a tri-foldable phone because you could fold it in three, and it'll be a really thick phone. But when you unfold it is would go and would get as large as a tab six. So it would get up to.

I believe it would go from. It went from 6.5 inches to 10 inches. That is the size of a regular tablet, and it really gets me excited to see things like that to see boundaries being pushed by these manufacturers. Again it was a prototype. Of course.

As I mentioned, it was pretty thick when folded in three, but I know things get better. That's technology things just continue to evolve. I don't know how long that's going to take for things to evolve to a level where it's you know it becomes just common for every device idea to just be foldable, but I just can't wait to see what they come up with in the future, the one that Samsung is rumored to be dropping next year. That foldable tab is still tagged as the current foldable line of Samsung. It's going to be a Galaxy Z, fold, tab, and I'm sure it's not going to be cheap right.

It's definitely not gonna, be something that's easily affordable. I'm pretty sure it's going to follow the same footsteps as the current z-fold line right when the galaxy 4 came out was expensive. The z-fold 2 came out, it was 2 grand. I don't know how much the z-fold tab is going to cost, but it will not be cheap. That's for sure, but then again this is just rumors right, so nothing has been confirmed, and we don't even know how the chip shortage is going to affect that.

We don't know if they're going to push it back, if they're going to maintain that rumored dropping or that rumor drop of the early 2022, but we'll get to see what do you think of that? What do you think of this crazy idea? Is this something that excites you or is this or are you just part of those people who say well? No, this is all gimmick. You know, there's no true practical usage to all that. Let me know, let me know in the comments section, but in either case it just seems like Samsung is really trying its best to pull away from the traditional. You know form factors that we are so accustomed to. You know when it comes down to mobile devices right because if you look at what's happening with the Galaxy Note line, I know some people still don't believe that Samsung is killing off.

That Galaxy Note line which we are still hoping that they bring it back, but anyway, going back to that point. They are killing supposedly killing the note line so that it can be replaced by the z fold line so a foldable phone. Now it's a real struggle to get people to drop that kind of money just because of the form factor, and maybe some additional stuff right. You know, fifteen eighteen hundred dollars or two thousand dollars is really not jump change. So it's going to be a rough battle for Samsung to fully convert people to foldable phones, despite the fact that it is cutting edge technology.

Now we did start off with foldable tablets, but it's just that you can't talk foldable tablets without talking foldable phones in general, simply because that's the one medium, that's that has been getting accepted by many people out there who now see the pragmatic value of these types of phones in their daily lives. Well, I actually take some of that back when I say pragmatic, I don't necessarily mean that all foldable phones are, you know practical to the same extent right so, and you might disagree with me if you look at something like the racer, maybe the fact that it folds is not very rooted in just the practicality of it, but more so in the nostalgia, if I can say that way, right, it's just because it's a great reminder of such a great phone from way back in the day, the Motorola razor some years back when the original came out, and I think with Motorola coming back with this one that is foldable is just because it reminds us of that original one, which was just a beauty, but it's not that it's really that much value from it to fold it down, so that it could just be a couple or a few more inches smaller. You also have something like the z-flip, it's a phone that is loved by so many people, but then again, in my opinion, many people just like it, because you can just whip it out and just you know that snapping sound that it makes when you whip it out is just so satisfying right. So, just like the razor phone, the practical part of the folding mechanism cannot, you know it doesn't equate what you have with a z fold, which opens up literally to a tablet. So in my opinion, if there's one phone out of these foldable phones, you know from which you would get the most tangible value from just the folding mechanism.

That's going to be the z full two or the z for three that's coming up again. It's opens up to a large screen, and it increases your productivity, and we can't talk folding phones without talking about something like the surface do or which, of course, also opens up a very cool way of opening, and you have kind of that dual screen that dual screen mode, a dual display mode again, that also increases productivity. It plus it looks like a book, so it gets you in the more serious mode when you open that phone. Also, it's super thin. So in terms of convenience and carrying that thing, it's just beautiful and then the last one that I want to bring up here is going to be the lg g8x that double screen foldable is you know it may not be a true foldable, like the other ones, the unibody foldable phones that open into one main screen, but still it's a phone that you can fold overall and help your productivity.

But anyway, with all of that being said, here's my take- and I have been sticking by this- take for a long time. The future is foldable, and by that I mean that foldable phones and foldable devices are going to be normalized at some point in the future, and I also don't mean that it's literally going to eradicate or just get rid of the traditional form factor. They. I personally think they are going to coexist. Just like at one point, you had the current form factor coexisting with the flip phones right, so I just think they're going to coexist at one point for a long time.

I'm thinking, but the foldable phones at one point are going to be just your normal phone like when you go. You can either pick up a foldable. You know foldable device at an affordable price. Just like you could pick up a regular traditional form factor at an affordable price. What do you think? What are your thoughts? Let me know what you think is going to be the future or, if you think this whole thing is just a gimmick, and it's going to come crashing down very soon.

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