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Smartphone manufacturers still want to make foldables a thing (arstechnica.com)
submitted 10 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Smartphone manufacturers still want to make foldables a thing::Foldables are barely 1% of the market, but that's not stopping anyone but Apple.

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[–] 000@fuck.markets 25 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I don't give a flying fuck about foldable screens, give me a real keyboard. The bottom half of one of these flippable screens could totally fit rows of physical buttons!

[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 10 months ago

We have come full circle to what smartphones we're like 10 years ago.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/top-smartphones-qwerty-keypad-152557008.html

[–] Patches@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago

That's just Flip Phones with more steps.

[–] restingboredface@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

Omg I can't agree with this strongly enough. Just typing this comment I've had to manually correct multiple typos because even with haptic feedback and autocorrect I still end up with totally garbled text. I have never been able to get the hang of typing on a touch screen. Im still pining for the good old days of blackberries and slide out keyboards.

Hell, even a built in stylus like the galaxy note had would be a welcome fix to constantly fumbling with whatever keyboard I'm trying to make work at the moment.