• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    6 months ago

    I wonder what they’re actually developing since we all know they’re going to get the screen from Samsung.

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      6 months ago

      “A new and revolutionary way of having a multi dimensional phone, the first ever of it’s kind, it doesn’t fold, it creases at the right points to give you more space than ever.”

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        6 months ago

        I kind of want to rolling phone. That would get rid of the crease problem. If you put a sensor in the roller you could have the software automatically adapt the screen size to how much of the screen is out.

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          Ooh, like it pulls out of a little scroll case, and is stiff once it comes out like a tape measure.

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      6 months ago

      The hinge and everything else involved in the folding process probably. Like every other foldable.

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        These are software developers. So they’re not going to design hardware.

        The hardware designers are probably aren’t going to design the hinge either since that’s a mechanical problem.

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          I can’t find anything that says that they are software developers. Just engineers which can mean many things.

          But sure, software developers obviously would have a lot of work to do on iOS for it to support folding phones.