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Derp

Hey! So do you all remember the good old days of flip phones? Looks like we are moving backward in our next move forward.

ETA: My initial thoughts on this -- why in the world would you flip the top screen away to reveal a bigger inner screen? Shouldn't you just use that first screen with a second?

Also: It is hard enough for me to keep just the one screen clean. FFS.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/07/samsung-folding-phone/

Thenomain

@derp

An internal screen is harder to accidentally break. The external screen is a normal screen. Also that thing is a brick, a typical early working prototype. Props to Samsung for making this technology work, but I bet we are a good two to three years away from a viable fold-phone.

surreality

@thenomain Imagine the day we have one that's two small cylinders, one holding a pen, the other with a series of numbers and a speaker and microphone, that you pull apart to have a flexible screen in the middle.

It will happen, and we'll all talk about what a stunning new innovation The <Corp> Scroll is.

Tinuviel

@surreality Nah, man. I'm looking for a wall-mounted Microsoft Surface device. We could call it... the Window.

Derp

@surreality

Pfft. You hold out for that. I will hold out for this:

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Thenomain

@tinuviel said in Tech N Stuff:

@surreality Nah, man. I'm looking for a wall-mounted Microsoft Surface device. We could call it... the Window.

You mean this one?:

https://money.cnn.com/2012/06/19/technology/microsoft-surface-table-pixelsense/index.htm