Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “10 Reasons I Daily Drive a Foldable”.
The trend toward larger and larger phone screens cannot be stopped and something needs to be done. I mean it’s clear at this point that you all would keep a tablet in your pocket if you could, but you can’t well, okay, you can but there’s a wrong way to do that and there’s a right way. I’M going to be talking about my experiences daily driving a folding phone over the last three years, because I have a lot to say about it, including some bad stuff, though with that said, obviously I can’t seem to put these things down. So I think it’s high time that I sat down and gave you all the reasons that I think you just might want to consider a foldable, even if you consider it and ultimately do not pull a trigger.
But you should pull the trigger on supporting our sponsor. Solidworks 3D experience SolidWorks for makers, delivers professional grade design tools for your hobbies, personal projects, experimental prototypes, you can’t let the government discover and more check them out at the link below starting with number one. It’S a tablet that fits in your pocket. Actually, no that’s very obvious. So, let’s move on to something less obvious if you’ve never used one of these. I do this all the freaking time ah, and it’s useful for more than just the flashlight how about if you want to take a timed picture, for example, now, instead of trying to find some random thing to lean your phone up against and then hope it doesn’t Tip the wrong way and come crashing to the ground, you can just turn the whole device into its own stand or, if that’s not necessary for you and you don’t mind, holding your phone there’s reason number two haha taking selfies, where you can actually see the preview On the front screen, while taking advantage of the more robust rear camera, no more trade-offs between image quality and making sure that you’ve got your shot framed right, I mean don’t get me wrong to keep these things as thin as possible. They don’t always have the best cameras around compared to slap phones but they’re solid as long as you just make sure that you don’t drop them in the process of taking your picture. A downside of foldables in general. Is that, especially if you have smaller hands, they can be just a little bit unwieldy with that said, for folks, with bigger hands Advantage number three comes in clutch: the extra width, if you’re the kind of person who struggles to type on your phone without turning it Sideways you are going to love having all of this thumb space without losing your chat to the keyboard and needing to scroll back up and reread the last few messages before you finish typing your reply.
Everything is just right there and speaking of chatting number four. Is that folds are fantastic for messaging apps, you get more of a. I don’t know how to describe it other than to say a desktop like experience where you can both see your current conversation and interact with someone and also your contacts list or your other recent conversations, wan na search for a phone number to text.
Someone without closing your current chat, no problem can’t remember who sent you that funny meme that you want to pass along search away all without going offline to whoever you’re actively chatting with whether it’s teams, let’s what’s up Discord, I mean everything is just plain: a richer Experience on a fold which I guess kind of goes without saying, given how much they cost off contract. That would be a downside, but we’ll get into that a little bit more later. You know: what’s free Doom scrolling social media apps like Reddit, Instagram or Twitter, which oh sorry, I am apparently legally obligated to call it X now anywho with a foldable.
You can number five double your doom scrolling power and use split screen to get two candy bar size, apps going at the same time. It’S not perfect. Things can get a little cramped, but it is certainly better than not having the option and when it works perfectly, it is pretty dang sweet kind of like our adorable and compact new stubby LTT screwdriver lttstore.com.
Oh another, here’s one, you didn’t think of is retro content. Man, I get so much use out of this, whether you want to emulate older games or watch episodes of your favorite classic TV shows without the visual gags freaking cut off. It’S awesome.
I mean okay, six by five, isn’t quite four by three, but it’s at the point where those annoying black bars aren’t nearly as annoying. And if you want to watch more modern 16×9 content, the larger screen still helps whether it fits perfectly or not bringing us to our next Advantage. The screen, it is huge and there are a ton of ways that this is useful. This is actually more like three or four different points. I mean looking at Google Maps. Reading comics are manga even just for text. Reading. I kid you not guys I legitimately started reading more once I switched to a fold.
Oh oh and the productivity. It is great for spreadsheets and greater rur for remote desktop access, like my whole, monitor up it’s awesome. There are certain activities where more screen is more better full stop. One that comes up very frequently for me is sharing pictures and videos with my elderly relatives.
All I got ta do is crank the brightness whip open my pocket tablet and they can actually see their grandkids dance performance instead of like smiling and nodding. Then, when I’m done, I slip it into my pocket. Good luck doing that with a tablet. Okay! Yes! Yes! Yes, but but I don’t look ridiculous right now, speaking of tablets, while foldables are notorious for not being perfectly flat, number eight is still valid.
There is plenty of space to draw or take notes on them and being in your pocket means that you are much more likely to have one on hand compared to your full setup. If the urge to Doodle strikes you and it’s that versatility – that I love so much about these things like how about number nine, I’m not often the kind of parent to hand my kids a device to keep them quiet, but for my daughters with a foldable, they Can both draw on the same Canvas OR the same color by numbers sheet, which actually leads me to number 10 two-player games? Again, I’m not super down with phones during family time, especially at the table, but the problem is not that I’m allergic to screens or something thank goodness right, I’m not allergic to screens it’s the asocial aspect, so I don’t mind if they’re playing a game with each Other and I can’t even count the number of times that we’ve whipped out the aptly named two players app to kill some time. While we wait for food to arrive – and it is so much better if you’re gon na have two hands on the screen to have it be a bigger one, so we can sit and play without being buried in our separate devices. Finally, number 11 is more of a bonus round kind of thing, but it’s funny even several Generations into these things. They are pretty unusual and they are an instant conversation starter. We just hosted our LTX Expo and surprise.
Surprise. Lots of the people had them there, but even then the effect was clear. People constantly wanted to talk to me about it and I even saw other attendees just explaining their folding phones to people they’re just plain cool. I mean it’s one of the first times in years that we’ve seen anything remotely exciting in phone design. A couple of decades ago I mean companies were trying everything to stand out and do something different, while also offering desirable features, but most of the time, then it just seemed to make the device hard to use and now we’ve gone full swing. The other way where it’s just boring with a foldable, you really are getting the best of both the phone and tablet worlds, and if you can look like a cool baller doing it congrats, I guess I mean I’ve never really managed to pull that off, though, of Course, I’m not done yet. I’Ve got a few more downsides. That came up in some of the instant conversations that I started with my foldable at LTX. How many of you out there with a candy bar, replace your screen protector every 6 to 12 months? No, not many of you well with one of these bad boys that may be necessary. Like me, Elijah from our Logistics Department recently had to remove his because the center, eventually bubbled up and cracked like mine, his still worked. Fine, but I mean who spends this kind of money on a phone to have it look gross and crusty, and we’ve seen a bunch of reports from others who have experienced the same thing actually had some people at LTX walk up to me and show them as Well, on top of that, after removing the screen protector on my own foldable, I was too lazy to replace it.
So I’m just running it bare. Eventually, the screen itself started to crack and since I just can’t go back to a regular candy bar at this point, I am now that guy daily driving a cracked screen unless I want to replace the whole thing, I can’t speak for the newer generation panels, but That’S the experience that I had with mine, which is a couple of generations old. Another issue is much more obvious.
We talked about how you can fit more screen in your pocket, since these tend to be shorter, especially the Google pixel fold. This this thing is like it’s tiny, it’s also significantly thicker than your average smartphone these days and it’s pretty heavy to boot. Finally, we’ve touched on this before, but it Bears repeating the software can have the odd issue. One of the two-player games that I would like to play on.
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