I get it why foldable phones are a thing, it’s like having a normal size phone and a small tablet in one and it’s easier to work on fodable devices than regular phones. But why are flip phones a thing?

  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    Those are still foldables. I definitely thought that by “flip phone” you meant dumb-phones.

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      1 year ago

      They’re different sorts of foldables. Hence Samsung calling one of theirs “Fold” and the other “Flip” (because the latter is the same form factor as older clamshell designs).

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, under Flip Phone I understand those things that were popular right before Smartphones became common

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        1 year ago

        To me a flip phone is a phone that can be folded but the screen is not part of the hinge. Whereas “foldable” refers to a screen that can be folded.