Again, I'd be happy to be proven wrong - and I do appreciate the engineering involved in making a consumer grade foldable screen.
Even if that's the case I think that's fine. It should help push innovation at Samsung and its competitors. Sure, they should be more consumer focused _in general_ but I think moon-shots like this have their place.
I'm not interested in a fold-able phone. But I'd love to see them get really good.
The screen was nearly as big as the Nexus 7 and fine to read on, in a much smaller overall form factor thanks to the smaller bezels. The Note 3 served all the same needs as the Nexus 7, and it still fit in a front pants pocket like my old phone (which the 7 didn't).
I went from there to a Note 4 and Note 8 and never used another 7" tablet.
What seems weird to me about the Note Fold is that the folding display isn't all that much bigger than the Note 8 - 7.3" diagonal vs. 6.3", albeit in a more square aspect ratio.
OTOH, if anyone on the SF Peninsula buys a Note Fold, let me know and I will buy you lunch at some very nice place just so I can play with the phone. I promise I will try not to break it!
For me, the biggest barrier right now is price. Having it all in one device is convenient, but for me it would easily be cheaper to just have a year-old phone and a year-or-two old tablet. Hell, given that I paid $400 for my Galaxy S8+, $200 or so for my Nexus 7 (like five years ago), and about $800 for my laptop, I could have all three for less than the cost of this thing.