Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Does MKBHD Like The Xiaomi Folding Phone?”.
There it is, ladies and gentlemen mkbhd, you already know tech videos YouTube happy to be here. We’Re lucky enough to have him here today. So I thought to myself. You know we need to get to the bottom of some topics since, as you know, mkbhd is the authority on various technology topics on the Internet – hey, what’s up guys, I’m THD here we’ve got something exciting here I mean you obviously know it’s all about these folding Phones right now, the next samsung folding phone and, of course it was the Royale or Royale spy. I mean I have trouble with that one.
How was real skeptical that one I didn’t see at CES I play with it at CES. Let’S just say: foldable phones aren’t ready, no, and that was proof you want to reward ambitious projects in tech because we’re and we’re handling all these slabs. That is so bad cuz. Everyone’S saying, oh, the phones are the same.
Now they all look the same. Everyone’S got a notch and dual cameras and glass, and you kind of want some interesting new thing to talk about, and they did that. But then I look at it and I use it. I have to tell the truth, which is it’s not that great, don’t put this thing in your pocket.
It’S not the one today and you only seen this clip yet it’s old. This is breaking it’s the president of Xiaomi, and they made this video right here of their working prototype, of how they envision a folding phone. Here we go here, you go.
This is the magic moment. Okay, it was a double fold on the back, oh whoa, why? I don’t I don’t know they’re getting a lot of love for this particular design. People are saying whom this seems closer.
The idea of popping it open and having a slightly larger display like is that enough to justify this very weird form factor the rest of the time. This sandwich mode, this the product, that’s going to break open the doors for the future of folding phones. I don’t know if I can say yes, but I like the idea where, like they folded it and it went from tablet mode to smaller tablet mode made more sense than what I’ve seen so far. This isn’t making me go. Oh, that’s why I want a folding phone. You know I’m kind of still waiting.
For that moment. I think what I saw was a. I think it was also a patent application. Remember the razor that flip phone mm-, but it was like a version of the razor with touch screen all the way and he could fold it in half.
So it was like a new razor mm- and it was a folding display, and I said, oh, that that’s like the one interesting way. I could see a foldable display being useful having that flip phone feel back people loved flip phones, we’ve gone away from that. But now, if you have a folding display, you could maybe build all the components around it and have a flip phone again. I’M interested to keep seeing these different versions and we’ll eventually get something yeah, and I think the difference in this case are the reason that this one’s generating a little bit more interest is because of the company doing it like Xiaomi is they seem capable like if Someone was gon na, do it, you didn’t believe in the flex, pay Royalle exactly.
That was not the most confidence-inspiring brand yeah, no offense, obviously, but a newcomer to this particular space Xiaomi. I know they and their pumping out smartphones like some new models. All the time you know it’s weird about the floating phone or the folding phone thing is when you fold it over the back of the phone stays lit up.
That’S that’s happening here, yes happening in the the prototypes I’ve seen, but it makes me feel like just turn the back off right, so you don’t feel like you’re at doing accent’el touches yeah. No, I mean you’re, probably right from like a user experience standpoint. It does seem odd to have this display that you’re not looking at on the back yeah, but then you get this weird side of it, which is anyone who has one of these phones who spends whatever amount of money is going to be necessary to pick one He’S gon na want the world to know that their screen folds, that’s fair, so I don’t know here’s my thing, I’m kind of with you an early part of the discussion here. I haven’t seen the killer application yet like why? What is the big I get it? You have a slightly bigger display, like in this case when he hasn’t unfolded yeah.
But you look at some of the big phones out there that there are six and a half inches already. So if you scale up to like an 8-inch display for tablet but like what are you getting in exchange yeah, it’s not enough until somebody showcases, maybe a pen input, maybe some other input, method or or some type of application where it’s like. Oh that’s compelling yeah.
I think the why is like we can keep having these light bulb moments about. Oh, that’s, a different way to use a folding screen, but generally since we only have these couple prototypes. My conclusion is: foldable phones aren’t ready yet proof of concepts. Kind of remind me of the beginnings of other things, like Oh ed, and I don’t know 3d had its day but like we’re, trying to figure out if this is permanent.
I think we’re yet to have that light bulb moment. Yeah we’re we’re still stuck in. Oh, it’s cool cool, a screen is bolding screens aren’t supposed to fold. I’M still not seeing that feature, but it is. It is cool tech, yeah, definitely yeah. .