Apple's patent hints at a foldable iPhone with a self-healing display, but analysts predict it will come at a later time.

Apple’s long-rumoured foldable iPhone could finally become a reality if a recently awarded patent is any indication. This patent hints at a revolutionary self-healing screen.

    • snownyte@kbin.social
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      6 months ago

      I just want phones to be fun again. There’s a YouTube series literally called ‘When Phones were Fun’. Where a guy presents all of these models from different manufacturers in the 2000s that all had these crazy but unique phone designs.

      Small phones, sliding keyboard phones, compacting phones, media device phones .etc that just had character to them.

      But no, we’ve been living in an era of phones where they’re just a series of degrees of rectangular shapes. And how many damn camera lenses we can tack on the back and the front. This one is tall, this one is a little wider and it’s just boring. Flipping the phone inward of itself isn’t really that interesting because it’s just a flip phone now with a screen that can do it.

      • PseudorandomNoise@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 months ago

        Most of those other types of phones aren’t around anymore because nobody bought them. Sure, small phones are great and I even had a 13 mini, but I’m one of like 20 people who bought it. I’ve never ever seen a sliding keyboard phone in the wild, just on YouTube. Same for those other more eclectic devices. The market has spoken, and it said “giant slabs of glass please”.

      • TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
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        6 months ago

        Full market saturation. They’re washing machines now. We shouldn’t be caring so hard about them anymore.

      • Jesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 months ago

        The other problem is that only a small, but loud, group buys them. They don’t sell as well.

      • NoisyFlake@lemm.eeEnglish
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        6 months ago

        That’s not my experience. I’ve got a 13 mini for 2 years now and I can go one day easily. I charge every night anyway, so it’s more than enough for me. On low power mode, it’s probably more like 2 days.