Smartphone sales down 22 percent in Q2, the worst performance in a decade::North American sales are bad for everyone, except, miraculously, Google.

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    1 year ago

    We’re at a point now where you don’t need to upgrade every 6 months or a year. Phones work perfectly fine for 2 to even 5 years now with updates.

    Micro updates such as slightly faster processing power or a slightly better camera is not appealing at all.

    Foldables is where the next smartphone market is but the technology is way too young and they’re mechanically fragile resulting in problems within only months of purchase.

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      Oh I have a foldable. Also the software sucks and they can’t find reasons for the folding at all. Maybe the flip will have a better market but it messes with battery life, antenna signal and more for a product that yells that an app is incompatible or doesn’t fit the screen right.

      I know I’m in the early adopter tax but I could have actually done without this one as a techie

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        1 year ago

        I’ve got a foldable and mine works fine, haven’t ran into a single app that won’t use the larger display. I find it super useful as the display is much easier to read and watch videos on. Zfold3

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          Occasionally being able to open a document or video on a larger screen is great but I get so many apps yelling at me to shutdown the app before it can load in a different format or bars on the edges open or missing text closed cause the screen is smaller.

          Also what’s with the home screens being different open or closed?

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        1 year ago

        Yeah as a techie, 100% wouldn’t recommend. Also they are 5 generations in and nothing really has changed.

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      1 year ago

      Foldable are not fragile in my experience. I’ve had my Fold for over a year now and I’ve dropped it many times without issue.