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Re:Apple to Launch 8-Inch Foldable iPhone in 2023 by matheweis on Monday May 03, 2021 @06:50PM (#27031911)
What if you had two separate computers wirelessly synchronized? None of the problems you mentioned, except maybe a hinge, and I trust Apple can get that much right. Such a device would be great for something like reading books.
Re:Apple to Launch 8-Inch Foldable iPhone in 2023 by juancn on Monday May 03, 2021 @09:18PM (#27033026)
You use an iPad for reading. I don't see it. It truly should feel magic for it to make sense in an Apple device.

The crease in the fold should be non-existent: no color bleeding, no weird reflections, it must be a perfectly flat screen. Apple extremely picky about image quality.

Also, water and dust resistance must be amazing.

They already sold a phone with a folded screen before (iPhone X has a fold at the bottom to hide control lines), so they may be looking at the tech with a different use case in mind.

For example I could see them looking at foldable screen tech to make the bezel disappear (iPhone X screen trick, but taken to the extreme).

Picture an iPad/iPhone which is just a perfectly flat piece of screen, no bezel (or a very thin one), no notch, no edge aberrations (like the curved screens some smartphones have). Essentially Job's vision.