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.
My Fold 2 held up 2.5 years but the screen is starting to develop cracks at the hinge.
Still works, but I can see the cracks growing weekly, only a matter of time until they’re too visible.
Replacing the screen is just too expensive, together with a new battery I’d look at the price of a new decent normal phone.
The huge screen is nice every once in a while, but I don’t do enough with my phone to justify the price.
Was a neat experience of the “future”, but the next phone is going to be a normal smartphone. Better battery life, will do the job just fine, lasts longer and cheaper.
No hard feeling towards foldables either, I knew they were expensive.
Also no surprise that folding something 10.000 times (conservative 10x a day for 1000 days) isn’t going to last forever.
Maybe they’ll find some magical solution for that, but I don’t think they will anytime soon.