Posted on 02/20/2020 10:25:16 AM PST by Red Badger
Ping!................
1. Since i have hard hands, i use a samsung active 7. The active 8 specs were the equal of using different shoelaces was not worth the money. I amrural, so it will be a while till 5g comes about, so..i wait and watch.
I had an original RAZR, then a Droid RAZR, so I looked at this new one. WAY too expensive, and I didn’t really trust (with good reason, apparently) the folding full screen.
Samsung and Motorola are both trying to defy the laws of physics.
Material fatigue is a known factor.
Bending a piece of IRON, TITANIUM or whatever, will eventually break from fatigue....................
Had they just used two screens with a small hinge in the center everything would have been fine...................
When a folding phone can go from 5” to 10” and back again, let me know. Until then, I just don’t have a use for it.
Yes, as NDT, eddy current, and mzgnaflux, all too tough for phones, but bend anything enough times, and it will fail.
I used to calibrate those things!..................
I just paid $160 for my new smart phone. Why are these phones ten times that price?
Because.....................
Anything radically new is going to have problems. You have to expect anything this new and different to both be incredibly expensive and full of problems. Its the cost of having “cutting edge” technology.
Maybe don’t buy a folding phone yet
How about if it is graphene based? If it is a single molecule, it should last “forever”.
While I do think th razor design has merits, the tech clearly isn’t there yet..
Microsoft Surface Duo is a better idea
Graphene, whether a single molecule, or as a formed member, is not as ‘plastic’, as an octopus’s body, therefore, utilizing Murphy’s Law, it will break.
I was the gov’t QA guy, that made sure you did, and to spec!
I watched two youtube videos about them, one about Motorola and the other about Samsung.
They’re expensive.
It isn’t glass. It’s plastic. Scratches easily.
The Motorola doesn’t close completely so dust gets in when it’s folded.
I concluded the problem isn’t so much in the folding screen (which is supposed to survive a quarter-million closings, and couldn’t be tested), but these other factors.
For what they cost, the shortcomings are rather off-putting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbAkY-Www40
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eokt7DWljtU
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