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I’ve been thinking a lot this week about the phone I used before my iPhone. It was a cool, special little phone called the LG Inf. It had a full QWERTY keyboard, a 2-megapixel camera with a lens hood and flash, as well as MP3 playback and an SD card memory slot. So when Steve Jobs showed up The first iPhone in 2007I didn’t like it compared to my EnV. Why would I want to go back to fewer features and pay more than three times the amount?
History doesn’t always repeat in technology, but it often does. In this week’s episode of Something Else, embedded below, I explain how foldable phones give me the same feeling I had 19 years ago. Rumors about a foldable iPhone from Apple It is said to be very similar to new Samsung Galaxy Fold 8. But it’s unlikely to have a camera as good as the current iPhone 17 Pro Max It may cost a lot more, too.
Pricing will be a big challenge for Apple when it launches a foldable phone, and pricing is a challenge with all foldable phones. But news this week suggests that perhaps A Apple’s new device upgrade plan It will ease the pain of switching to an expensive foldable iPhone.
For more Another thingSubscribe to CNET’s YouTube page to catch Bridget Carey breaking down the latest Apple news and releases every Friday.
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