• null@piefed.nullspace.lol
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    5 days ago

    With folding phones, you now have a slab half as tall and twice as thick. Not really solving too many problems with that form factor.

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      5 days ago

      It’s not though, it’s about 1.5 times as thick. And it feels way smaller in your pocket than slab phones do.

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      If my phone was twice the thickness it’d still be thin. I’d trade space for some extra battery any day, and/or for this.

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      Women’s pants generally aren’t deep enough. So the length of the phone absolutely makes a difference over the thickness in terms of that.

      Source: My pants. It had been a frustrating saga over the ever increasing size of smartphones when women’s pants pockets weren’t expanding to match. Stumbled into the Z Flip line and was hooked. It finally did solve the problem for many of us

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      That’s actually not the case with the newer folding phones. The Z fold 7 is only 10% thicker (8.9mm) when folded than the s25 ultra (8.2mm), for example. The clamshell flips do run a bit wider at 13mm but they’ve really come a long way and I’m sad to see the market for them dying.