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I haven't met anyone yet who does and I haven't read any good endorsements about foldable phones but I keep seeing advertisement for foldable phones.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I use a Samsung Flip 4 since almost a year ago. It's pretty good, nice having a phone with a large screen that can easily fit in my pocket. Everything still works well, no problems with the hinge, but I've never dropped it or anything. As for negatives, the camera is meh (coming from a Pixel) and so is the battery life. Definitely needed my powerbank on my most recent vacation to the UK, where I used it a lot. I hope when it dies, there's something like a Pixel Flip that's durable and has good battery life. Otherwise not sure if I'll go for another flip phone.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I need to watch a full review on the Motorola razr+ (U.S. name - I forget what it's called in Europe). I saw some preliminary info that compared favorably to the latest Samsung, plus it runs closer to stock Android. Definitely going to take a closer look.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'll pick a Moto over a Samsung anyday.

Samsung has the worst battery life of all smartphones, period. Not to mention half the apps you get with the phone are bloat ware that can't be deleted.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

With the older Moto models, what stopped me from getting them was the hinge reportedly being much more fragile and prone to failure and the camera being even worse than the Flip's. The current models seem like quite a decent improvement though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

When you mentioned a large screen, are these screens noticeably larger than a non-foldable phone? Is that the draw?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

With the Flip, I'd say the size when flipped open is similar to many other smartphones on the larger side. However, I think that regular phones of that size are quite inconvenient though, so the draw for me is having that large screen size but being able to fold it to something much more compact that isn't annoying to carry around.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Do you still have to open it to use the screen?

Or is there some kind of outer screen?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It has a small outer screen for notifications and the like. The newer models from the Flip 5 onwards have a full outer screen that can be used for pretty much everything though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Dang, that is some nifty shit I didn't know about