The only feature that prevents me from recommending facial phones

I carry a lot of different phones around it, and I rarely get questions about it because most people have stopped talking about the phone they own in 2017. I can use the iPhone 18 Pro Max Ultra that has not been released to pay the costs of my coffee and no one will raise the eyebrow (excluding the current company, of course). To the majority, the phone is a phone; Regardless of those who make it or what programs are running, they are almost the same size and shape. Unless this phone is the Philip.

Facial phones attract attention from the type of people who have seen every type of phone in existence, and this is logical: they are very clear various. During the appearance of a smartphone, there was a time when manufacturers tried many other shape factors. Physical keyboards, rotation screens and pop-up cameras-anything was a fair game. But over the past decade, the industry is close to one design for all of them: the shape factor that we now know as the slab phone. I stayed more or less without challenge until Samsung started folding the screens in half.

Before the new phones, folds came similar to the book first. Samsung’s effort for the first time was a kind of failure. Within days of receiving review units, Laboratory began to face problems with the internal screen. freedomDieter Bonn was one of them. Note a small swelling in the inner screen along wrinkles, as if it was a very small particle pressing the screen from the inside of the detailed. Something is similar to the CNBC Review Unit.

Elsewhere, creators and auditors in other outlets of the catastrophic screen have suffered similarly by exfoliation of the protective protector on the factory on the inner screen, which was supposed to remain permanently attached. If this is not clear to people who look at phones throughout the day, you can be sure that it will not be clear to the regular phone user. Although the dust was not the perpetrator here – it is clear that Samsung faced more than one kind of problems on his hands – the message was clear: the inner screen of the foldable phone was just a wrong movement away from failure.

The first modern phone FLP was not completely. Motorola Razer revival Type of absorptionAnd The first heart of Samsung It was not much better, although he was the first to offer a better glass folding screen instead of plastic. Both phones came with many bodies, a lot of concerns related to durability, and a very high price to justify one purchase of modernity. But things changed when Motorola took a good look at the Razr design and said: “You know what? For this hell. The big external screen.”

Motorola Razr Plus 2023 was the first FLIP phone that really felt it was different. The 3.6 -inch outer screen looks small, and I think it is small, but it was the largest screen to be presented on the Philip at that point. And make a difference. Instead of just the three notifications, you can actually Do things. Respond to the texts, browse your Spotify Library, and even run full applications – become much more possible. Samsung followed its example, and although it took attempts to get rid of the screen in the form of file files and embrace the full front panel, its FLIP phone has become more useful with a suitable coverage screen. I Love philosophy. Many of you love the face phones as well.

Those small spots of dust are still looming on the horizon. Despite the major improvements to screens and joints, adding water resistance, facial phones (and their siblings on the other floor) still lack dust resistance. Both the latest Motorola and Samsung come with an IP48 classification, which only guarantees protection against very small molecules, which means that anything smaller than a millimeter is still likely to work on its way to the phone and occupies chaos.

Certainly, many people have folding phones and do not face any problems with dust, which is great! But when each phone comes similar to the slab with the same point with the full IP68 rating, it is difficult to tell the average person to go ahead and spend $ 1,000 on the Philip phone. Just fun go so far.

I had a burning question for the head of smart phone planning at Samsung, Minseok Kang. Maybe even a call. “Is foldable foldable even possible?” I asked to follow the latest Samsung discharge. “I don’t think it is not possible,” he said. “But it’s difficult.”

Whispers appeared from Taiba with a long -standing IP68 rating around most of the latter’s last folding launch operations, in the end they fade when revealing full specifications. But rumors shoot again, which indicates this Google Pixel 10 Pro It may come with dust resistance. This, frankly, will judge. But I got my hopes many times this year, and I do not have the energy to do this again, so I will consider it a nice surprise if I arrived with dust resistance. But I did not give up hope – I have good power that it is not impossible, after all.

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