I see no point in a folding system that makes you choose between either one smaller and one bigger screen. A system in which you have only one big display that is able to fold in 3 parts in a way that one of the parts remains always visible would be a different history. We all loved that concept from the Westworld show.
I really don’t get the absolute vitriol foldables get on Lemmy. I love my z fold 5 and the use cases are numerous. Need to fill in some personal data? Dual screen your password manager and easily go back and forth. Play games on your phone? Basically ever game I’ve seen scales beautifully to the inner screen’s resolution. Want a second monitor? Put the thing in kickstand mode and have your YouTube video playing on the side while you do whatever else.
The three things I always hear against them are basically what you said: price, crease, and durability. The price is just kinda what it is; there’s a lot of tech in here and it’s expensive to make. So I totally get it if that’s people’s hang up. The crease is a total non issue. What a lot of people do is hear about the crease, think about how bad it sounds, go to best buy to check it out, focus solely on the crease and nothing else, and say wow this awful. In reality though, the moment you use the inner screen the crease totally fades away, just how the notch did when apple first made it. You don’t even feel it because you never have your fingers in the center of the screen, they’re always in their respective halves. Now for durability, I can only speak to my own experience. I’ve had the 3, 4, 5, and soon to be the 6. So that’s roughly a year between each model and not the longest time for things to break. But in all of that time and all of those devices, I’ve never had a single issue. No cracked screens, not permanent marks on the inner screen, no broken hinges. If you go on reddit sure you’ll probably find some complaints, but remember it’s an Internet forum… A lot more people are going to complain about issues than exclaim how well their device has always worked.
In any case, highly recommend and you should definitely get one.
Same here, I had a Fold 3 and loved it. I did break it, but it happened in a way that would have broken a traditional non-foldable too, so I can’t place the blame on the design. I’ve had a Fold 4 since November 2022 and when it’s time to replace it, I’ll definitely get another foldable. I use it for all of the things you mentioned, along with reading novels, magazines, and crafting patterns. I can’t see myself going back to a non-foldable at this point.
It’s perfect for me. I had one issue where some debris got in the hinge from a drop and caused me to need a hinge replacement. It wouldn’t open all the way but besides that still functioned fine. I hope they take off tbh because I would really miss the functionality of it. It’s certainly not for everyone though.
As someone who has installed a lot of roms, I recommend staying with the stock one. It can be really useful on very old phones, but it is not necessary on most current devices. The two biggest issues I had were the lack of floating windows and the play integrity api issue. Also MIUI (without bloatware) is the most useful Android interface. Pure Android is nice and simple but not suitable for everyday use.
Yup, you are right. Mobile banking seems to be really difficult on custom ROMs and overall it just brings too many issues. I will keep using the stock ROM for now (HyperOS). I have google play services disabled, all Gapps and Xiaomi bloatware apps deleted. I feel like that’s good enough. RethinkDNS to block internet connection from apps that don’t need it. I shouldn’t let “perfect” get in the way of good.
Do you have any other suggestions to make my phone a bit less of a data mine?
You don’t need anything extra to block internet connections for applications. You can directly block them from the app information itself. I think what you’ve done so far is very good and sufficient for phone internal use. The important part now is the browser section, and I think you can handle that too.
No subscription on the ring has me at least curious. I’m just trying to figure out what finger to put it on to look the least weird if I do go for it. Maybe I have to become one of those guys that has like 20 rings on at all times so it blends in
it should, AOSP external desktop mode does work with 3rd party launchers, and you can even kinda get it working on samsung, but it was a massive hassle getting it to work for me.
Ive never really understood the appeal of desktop modes like this or Dex, like, whenever i am somewhere with a keyboard, a mouse, a monitor with some cables, the likelyhood of there already being a fully working computer are very high, and the chances that the computer works better at what I want to achieve are much higher than my dinky phone with phone apps on it
I use it a lot, I keep a little dock with me and a small bluetooth mouse and keyboard, when I’m typing on the go, I can just plug in when I come home and everything is there.
exact same thing with my emulators. I can also chroot into arch and get a full blown desktop environment if needed
I think the vision was what Motorola delivered briefly a decade ago with webtop. The original version of it was a chrooted lubuntu with full access to apt, and custom applications that let you render your phone, or phone apps as an application. It was powerful enough to get me through my first 3 years of a computer science program in college with a lapdock as my primary “computer”. (Think a brainless laptop, that you dock your phone into)
When they moved from android 2.3 to 4.0, they dropped the lubuntu webtop in favor of Android’s tablet mode, which was a huge bummer, and what made me get an actual laptop. Outside of gaming, if that were the average computer paradigm today I’d be a happy camper. Why buy two computers when you can buy one instead?
I’m honestly surprised this feature is still around. Don’t get me wrong, I love that it’s available when I get the chance to use it, but it’s so rarely, I question whether the development effort necessary to keep it going is really worth it.
Edit: completely forgot the value Dex has for Samsung tablets. Happy that they make this feature available on phones too.
because they are powerful. Maybe your phone is slow. My phone can run games at 144fps and does not need to have active cooler, but PC runs at 60C and needs active cooling for a simple YouTube video
in development options I believe you can enable desktop mode one external display, it’s been around since like A10, and with A12L they really fleshed it out. but A14 was another decent improvement.
The Pixel 8 and onwards technically support DP alt mode again. I’m not sure about stock, but I believe I read about some people having it just work in Graphene OS.
Yeah, duh. The story is about it no longer being hidden and requiring activation: “Android 10 gained a hidden desktop mode in its developer features, but it wasn’t easy to find.”
This makes more sense when coupled with AR glasses (Xreal, Viture, etc) especially when riding in a plane or car for a long trip. With DEX at least, your phone becomes a track pad, but without a typing device it’s a bit limited. Unfortunately many android apps don’t translate well to landscape mode.
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