this post was submitted on 30 Sep 2024
428 points (98.4% liked)

Technology

60074 readers
3252 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (5 children)

What I don’t understand is why nobody makes a foldable phone where it’s just two flat screens with an invisible bezel along one edge so they fit seamlessly together when fully opened.

It’s not like there’s a use case where you operate the phone half unfolded and require both halves of the screen to be seamlessly connected.

If the flexing feature wasn’t a gimmick and there was an actual use case for a foldable pocket iPad, someone would have released a phone like the Kyocera Echo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyocera_Echo to commercial success.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

not invisible, but the Surface Duo line was pretty much that.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Microsoft had a dual screen foldable like that, then stopped supporting it

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is "invisible bezel with actual screen below" possible?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure there are a half-dozen ways you could at least fake it. Like if the bezel can be made clear and they overlap somewhat.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Since it’s not been brought to market, I’ll assume there isn’t a way with its money’s worth. At most you have the Microsoft thing with a thin hinge.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I mean, it's a really slick gimmick. I think having a bendy screen is cooler than two screens even if it's more expensive/difficult to manufacture and doesn't provide any real benefit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Exactly. And it wouldn’t have to be double wide since some components could be pushed to the other size. I’m fine with it just being like two apps open and not even one big one. Multitasking.

I guess what we really need is a phone case that has hinges and we can just buy two phones!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Interesting idea. Bezels have been made pretty thin and there have been curved display edges, but I don’t know if anyone’s ever tried a one-side zero-bezel design that you could hinge together. Bezels in the other sides are fine, but could we create a flush edge with no gap to click two screens against each other?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The first time anything got caught in the gap, it would probably shatter the screens. I do like it better than the crease though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I was actually thinking of hinging it the other way, having the screens fold to the outside.