Pedantic nit: this thing doesn’t have three folds, the name is nonsense.
The suffix “fold” in this instance refers to the number of parts, not the number of folds. As confusing as that is.
Pedantic return: it has 3 screens with 2 connecting hinges, it is therefore trifold.
trifold in American English (ˈtraiˌfould) adjective
- triple; threefold
- having three parts a trifold screen
And two fold is how many screens ?
2, with 1 hinge. It’s like a normal phone but the screen number increased twofold.
Bifold means something that folds into two parts. Consider the bifold wallet or bifold door.
How can something fold into one part then ?
I guess the same way you slice something into one piece. Bisect is one less than trisect, so what’s one less than bisect?
Maybe the problem is that the phone is rectangular. I bet they could do it with a polygon with just two fewer sides. ;)
Trifold wallet tho
Coming soon, they will unveil the Huawei xxMatexx XTX Pro X design.
Holding out for the Anne Frank Trapper Keeper phone.
I kinda always wanted Penny’s computer book from Inspector Gadget.
Do you mean Lisa Frank, the artist for colorful animals on school supplies, and not Anne Frank, the famous diarist who was killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust?
Shit. That’s a big oops. Been a very long day.
Holy shit we just witnessed Lemmy culture 🥲
Ok, now I want an Anne Frank Trapper Keeper.
Lmao thank you for leaving your comment unedited.
An Anne frank fold out phone would be a hell of an art piece. I think it could give Lisa Frank a run for her money.
Or, perhaps a mashup of both???
I was really wondering if I had missed something about Anne Frank.
Just… why…?
One time foldable phones where already fucking stupid, whats the usecase for tri now
this is going to be like the Gillette blades
That’d be cool. Buy one cheap phone frame, and a pack of 8 screen+electronics assys for $20,000.
Fuck Everything, We’re Doing Five Folds.
Screw that, I want a phone that folds into a fucking origami crane
Y’all are so stuck in the old linear thinking. Be brave, expand your mind. Rubik’s cube phone when?
The CEO was just conspicuously spotted with one of these a couple weeks ago, looks like it was a marketing scheme as we suspected.
This technology gets interesting, when I can unfold a full 27" 2k screen.
LG has a roll up screen. (prototype). More practical.
Expanse hand terminal so close. Can have the iPhone rectangle kind or the slap it on your wrist kind.
What we really need is decentralized data and computing. Make phones super basic screens/radio hardware and all your data and computation done remotely. Makes hardware more renewable because you don’t need to buy one every 2 years, cheaper, and since it has so much less hardware you can do really cool designs like a single transparent glass chassis.
Cue the Scroll PhoneTM.
I can’t even imagine the nightmare UI that would accommodate that type of screen.
Mechanically, I could see a device that has a slide down keyboard and a roll up screen. Functionally, I can’t see how it would be useful for daily smart phone actions like one-handed use or swipe-gestures.
Should just be a roll up projector screen and you wear the projector on your forehead like a lamp. Also it’s a lamp and you can project directions on the street when you’re lost at night.
Fuck Elon I got this. Give me money!
Sign me up for the Kickstarter.
I wish this was closer to cheap than bat shit expensive.
Also, the only reason I’d want this is for native x64 emulation (which isn’t out of infancy) I had a laptop, my cellphone and my work laptop sprawled out today and this all could easily be 1 phone and 2 vms…
I pick the category 'Things no one Asked For", for $25 Mr. Trebek.
Someone said the same about touchscreen when you were still a kid. If you don’t want it, don’t buy it.
I was an adult when touch screens properly took off, and I doubt this is in the same league.
There was some practical purpose to touch screens, whereas this thing is just unnecessary. I doubt it would have the same effect.
Having a phone that can turn into an iPad is probably going to get some use.
There is practical purpose to a touchscreen, the fact that short sighted people couldn’t see its usefulness is my actual point.
they can make intricate folding devices now.
but making them repairable is somehow fucking impossible.
It’s not impossible for them to do. They just don’t want to do it.
I don’t want to cure cancer, I want to turn people into dinosaurs!
Gimme a fucking keyboard instead of extra screen size
Exactly, if you’re going to add mechanical elements that will break it better be a keyboard
https://youtu.be/e2n2ftM-MwI?si=F_1PfmfYQadCr9Zl
Clicks keyboard?
they actually made one for this and it folds 🫨
This is dumb and stupid
