Foldable smartphones have reached their fifth major generation, as heralded by Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Fold 5, and...

Foldable smartphones have reached their fifth major generation, as heralded by Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Fold 5…

For me it’s definitely the durability concerns. I’ve valued my phone’s water and dust resistance since getting an ip67 phone years and years ago. My brother had a flip and a grain of sand in his pocket got under the display; when he closed the phone the display died. And they expect me to pay more for the privilege.

  • IronKrill@lemmy.caEnglish
    91·
    1 年前

    To double or more the storage for much cheaper than the internal storage upgrades cost… is that not enough? Even the folds don’t have more than 512gb and they cost over $1000. My sub $500 phone from years ago is running a 512gb SD card, which I can seamlessly slot into my next phone when I swap.

    • Guster@lemmy.worldEnglish
      210·
      1 年前

      Sure, but why do you need Storage in the first place? I have always had less than 100gb and it’s plenty for all apps etc. Everything else goes in the cloud

      • vizean@lemmy.worldEnglish
        111·
        1 年前

        Just because it works for you means it should work for me? I want more storage than you need.

      • IronKrill@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        1 年前

        Sure, let me pay the same I did for the SD card for half as much storage that will expire in a year ($40 for 200GB in GDrive). It’ll be super handy when I am on 250MB of cell data or have no reception at all and want to listen to my music in the cloud.

      • Ogygus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        1 年前

        Why need storage at all?

        Have the thing connect to the Internet to do even basic tasks like answering the phone.

        A mainframe of sorts.