Motorola Razr 2019

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https://www.t3.com/feature/motorola-razr-release-date-price-specs

This is the best potential application yet of the folding screen. Unfolded, it is a normal kind of smart phone. However, folded, it is a compact kind of device that is unlike any other phone.

Finally, a company has conceptualized a folding phone that is both functional and cool. Things like this could be the next step forward in making people want to buy phones again.

I like the concept but am ridiculously skeptical about the implementation. First concern with these is that these are first generation devices with an obvious fail point and people will likely have to wrestle with the idea of sacrificing major display quality for the novelty of folding the screen. The issue of creating reliable pliable circuitry and wiring was also difficult and I’m skeptical about how well that was resolved. Second major concern is broader performance. The Samsung unit is massive compared to typical smart phones, instead of being a tiny pager sized device that opens to a phone it’s more like a phone sized device that opens to a small tablet. It’s for a small segment of the market and will likely under perform most tablets yet possibly perform well as a phone given the real estate sacrificed for the ability to bend (for example battery packs and certain hardware components can’t span the joint). The moto version on the other hand expands to regular phone sized, which makes me think it will under perform phones in general given the sacrificed real estate. Who knows, at 200,000 released the target market is clearly going to be technophiles with connections and money that just want a sweet gadget / curiosity and won’t be too distraught over performance issues and hick-ups so probably not a big issue at first, A broad scale rollout is probably a few years away.

Interestingly, I feel like Apple is getting left in the dust here and in 5G where they are letting their peers out in front. They also stopped supporting a few peripheral hardware lineups last year like the Airport routers. I’m not necessarily surprised by this, but maybe surprised how easily they’re retreating from various markets and letting others get these PR grabs.

my nintendo ds can bend it like beckham

As with all new product tech, this seems overpriced and not super useful. However, the concept behind this is very cool and I’m excited for what this tech will be like in 5-10 years once we get past the early-adoption phase. Definitely something to keep tabs on, but for now a toy for techy people.

They know flip phones are superior to regular phones,

does this new version make that click sound when you flip open or close them?

^ He’s right, I have a flip phone, it’s better.

That chick was in the real world then became a reality star in southern charm. I think her name was Cameron? I can’t rememebr but she foineeeee

Come on AAPL, please come out with something cool!

Yes, years ago we reached a consensus on that

https://www.analystforum.com/forums/water-cooler/91356285

the flip phone has a market simply for the flip flap sounds it makes when you open close the thing, if anything I would suggest the Motorola engineers reading this to add to the phone a phony antenna that the user can pull up to “improves signal quality” … that antenna alone will make the phone sell an extra 2M units

You guys aren’t fibbin? You actually like having to open/close a phone constantly? It would slow me down in all honesty. I like having everything just ‘there’. If that makes sense.

Same… The pics I’ve seen, it doesn’t even look like it opens up flat. My phone spend most of its life laying flat on my desk so don’t see the point.

In the older days my dad used to have a Nokia 8800 something and that was the gold standard in having a soothing sliding sound. People used to pay huge amounts before the smartphone days just for the sound it made and the class associated with it.

Anyways sliding/ flipping phones are much more susceptible to wear and tear and have shorter lives.

All things equal yes, but my LG VX8600 is 13 years old with 3 day battery life and most people’s smart phones die within 3-5 years.

BS = Dwight Schrute of AF

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This is how I picture him

Yes, but smartphones are very fragile. Almost every penny has been squeezed out of their design and they’ve been optimized to fit into your hand. They’re way more prone to damage than a simple phone.

Anyways it’s disgusting how people in Uber or Metro have nothing else to do than look into their phones.

its like reading a book, but it most likely contains porno.

I’d rather read the news or look at memes than stare at trash that nobody has picked up, make eye contact with strangers, or look at my surroundings of subway tracks and stagnant graffiti.

It’s not like I can go birdwatching on a cramped subway cart