The only functionality that prevents me from recommending sheet phones

I wear a lot of different phones, and I rarely get questions about them, because most people have stopped talking about the phone they have around 2017. I could use an ultra unpublished iPhone 18 Pro Max Air to pay for my coffee and nobody would raise a eyebrow (except for the current company, of course). A majority, a phone is a phone; It doesn’t matter who it does or software it works, they are all about the same size and the same shape. Unless this phone is a rocking phone.

Flip phones draw the attention of the type of people who have seen all the existing types of phone, which makes sense: they are very obviously different. During the rise of the smartphone, there was a time when manufacturers tried many other form factors. Physical keyboards, swivel screens, pop -up cameras – everything was a fair game. But in the past decade, the industry has converged a design to settle them all: the form factor that we now know under the name of the slab phone. And he remained more or less undisputed until Samsung begins to fold the screens in half.

Before the new Flip sheet phones, the book foldables came first. And the beginnings of Samsung were sort of a fiasco. In the days following the reception of the exam units, the testers began to encounter problems with the interior screen. The penisThe own Bohn Dieter was one of them; He noticed a small bulge in the interior screen along the fold, as if a very small particle pressed in the screen of the interior of the hinge. Something similar has happened to the CNBC exam unit.

Elsewhere, creators and criticisms of other points of sale have experienced similar catastrophic screens by taking off the protector installed in the factory on the interior screen, which was to remain definitively adhered. If that was not easy for people who watch the phones all day, you can be sure that it would not have been obvious to the average user of the phone. Even if the dust was not the offender confirmed here – and that Samsung clearly had more than one type of problem in his hands – the message was clear: the interior screen of a folding phone was only a bad movement of failure.

The first modern phones flip was not exactly bangers either. Motorola Razr was zero, and Samsung’s first flip was not much better, even if it was the first to offer a folding glass screen better than plastic. The two phones came with too much compromise, too many sustainability problems and a price too high to justify buying one for the novelty. But things have changed when Motorola looked at her Razr conception and said: “What do you know? For hell with this big outdoor screen.”

The 2023 Motorola Razr Plus was the first fatal style phone that really looked like something different. The 3.6-inch exterior screen looks tiny, and I guess it’s tiny, but it was the biggest offered on a rocking phone at that time. And that made a difference. Instead of simply sorting notifications, you could actually do things with things. Respond to SMS, browse your Spotify library, even run full applications – so it has become more possible. Samsung has followed suit, and even if it took a few tests to get rid of the file -shaped screen and kiss the full front panel, his Flip phone has become more useful with an appropriate coverage display. I Love Flip Phones. Many of you also like flip phones.

These small stains of dust are still looming. Despite substantial improvements in screens and hinges, as well as the addition of water resistance, flip phones (and their brothers and sisters in the fold) still have no resistance to dust. Motorola and the latest foldables of Samsung are delivered with an IP48 note, which only guarantees protection against very small particles, which means that everything that is smaller than a millimeter could still make its way in the phone and wreaks away.

Of course, many people have folding phones and never encounter problems with dust, which is great! But when all other SLAB style phones at the same price are delivered with a complete IP68 rating, it is difficult to tell the average person to go ahead and spend $ 1,000 on a rocking phone. The pleasure is only going so far.

I had a burning question for the Samsung smartphones planning, Minseok Kang. Maybe it even bordered a plea. “Is a dust-resistant foldable even possible?” I asked for the most recent Samsung. “I don’t think this is not possible,” he said. “But it’s difficult.”

Foldable whispers with the nonsense IP68 rating arose around most recent folding phone launches, ultimately gaseous when the complete specifications were revealed. But rumors are triggered again, suggesting that the Google Pixel 10 Pro could be accompanied by dust resistance. Frankly, would govern. But I got my hopes too often this year, and I don’t have the energy to start again, so I will consider that it is a nice surprise if it arrives with dust resistance. But I haven’t lost hope – I have it good female that it is not impossible, after all.

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