There's one problem that plagues every foldable smartphone, and the Pixel 9 Pro Fold perfectly encapsulates what that problem is.

There’s one problem that plagues every foldable smartphone, and the Pixel 9 Pro Fold perfectly encapsulates what that problem is.

  • WoodScientist@lemmy.worldEnglish
    101·
    2 months ago

    The point of not being able to take advantage of the screen size is really interesting. I wonder why they don’t design these to fold out into something with a normal phone aspect ratio, just bigger. That way you could actually take advantage of all the screen real estate.

    • cron@feddit.orgEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      I think its hard to have a foldable device that has a phone aspect ratio (2:1) when open and a reasonable size (and thickness) when closed.

      This could only be done like the flip phone (1:1 --> 2:1) or by multiple folds (like the triple fold huawei).