Apple’s rumoured foldable iPhone (possibly iPhone Flip) might launch in 2026, but display crease, and design are roadblocks.
Haha wtf? Give me a new iPhone Mini instead please 😂
People didn’t buy the last mini, so why would Apple do it again?
https://www.macrumors.com/2022/04/21/iphone-13-mini-unpopular-march-quarter/
Dozens of us did! 😁
I can’t stretch my dumb fingers to swipe down from the top with my thumb, one-handed, on a 14 or 15. The 13 mini is perfect.
I would love a new iPhone with the same size as the first iPhone SE
Just skip this idea. No one wants this.
Bin this and bring back the mini so we can have a proper small form factor phone
Apple fans will buy whatever Apple makes them want.
Speak for yourself… I’m hoping google comes out with a flip phone Pixel. If I was an iPhone person this is exactly what I’d be hoping for.
I want a phone that folds up to be smaller than a normal phone so I don’t have to have giant bricks in my pocket.
Okay so since we’re going back to flip phones, can we just get a frickin phone with a button keyboard again??
God yes.
I was looking at phones yesterday and thinking: do they make an actual, premium flip phone with keyboard a la the old Motorola Razr? It appears nobody does. All I could find were cheap shitty Chinese plasticky trash or phones made for the elderly.
I want something with a nice metal/titanium case, premium keyboard, decent oled screen, 10+ megapixel camera on it… and something that I can snap shut like it owes me money. Don’t make it too small; I want a week’s battery life at least and swappable battery.
And I would - and I’m not joking here - pay 600-800 euros for that, depending on how premium the experience is.
I think there’s absolutely a market for that.
A weeks battery is insane, 7-10 times as big as the average battery now.
Back in the ‘sweet spot’ of cellphone use, the late ‘90’s, you could get several days of use out of a battery. Some only needed a weekly charge. I also don’t need or want a flip phone to do everything that a smartphone does.
I’m a big proponent of making phones bigger with bigger batteries. I’ve got huge hands and most phones feel dainty and fragile. Give me a house brick with a week long battery and I’d be perfectly happy. Making phones slimmer is just silly.
I don’t mind phones being chonky, I mind them being large in other dimensions. I have small hands and my Pixel 7a is on the edge of what I can use comfortably with one hand.
Great. Now everyone will be copying Apple’s foldable idea.
They’re like the last ones to the party lol
Yes, but once again, the fanboys will hail it as an Apple invention.
I don’t want that.
Fuck no.
Imagine what they’re going to charge? Lmao
$2999 + $499 for a bendable case
Should be called iPhold
what is the benefit of this i don’t get it?
Larger display but still compact in your pocket. It’s just a competitor to the Samsung flip phone
Do those phones sell that well? I held one recently and it doesn’t seem very practical for someone that keeps taking their phone out back into their pocket often.
Yes, but you can rig the screen with a fingernail if you push hard enough. Tested it in store…
They wanted to make the IFlip but instead its an IFlop.
I’ll see myself out.
Of all the foldable clamshell is the worst, doubling the width of your phone to save a few cm of height is so useless.
If it’s gotta be a folding phone make it fold out into an iPad.
“a few” … it literally cuts the length in half. For me personally, something like this is much desired. Having a 3x3x.5" block vs a 6x3x.25" block would be a major improvement.
But now it’s twice as thick
Which I’m totally okay with. In some of my clothes my pockets are doing gymnastics to try and fit the giant brick (because the phone is a long as the full length of my pocket). If you don’t have/like baggy pockets, these huge screen, long phones are a huge pain.
Having it be “twice as thick” means it’s about as thick as my wallet (and I have no complaints with that).
