• GoosLife@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Fold your phone in to a paper plane to enter airplane mode. It won’t stop you from receiving calls, but it will look badass when your $2000 Samsung phone makes it several feet down the cul-de-sac

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        Damn, I misunderstood. I thought the airplane fold was just to increase the aerodynamics when you need to throw your on-fucking-fire phone because Samsung somehow found a way to hold the distinction of designing the first phone banned on flights across the globe due to catching on fucking fire. Imagine how cool that burning airplane (phone/firework hybrid) looks though!

        Continues to baffle me that Samsung did their damnedest to go out of business with making all sorts of shit catch on fire for a few years and everyone went “meh, it’s shiny tho”

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    I had a folding phone back in the day. I think they’re called feature phones now. I preferred it over my Nokia because it was harder to accidentally call someone or make weird noises.

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    Glad we’re finally moving away from the featureless black rectangle era, might even pick up a foldable once the price drops.

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    No sane person buys a foldy phone, unless they completely fix the issue of it breaking because it got folded.

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      I’m on my second foldy with no issues, first was 0g Pixel Fold and now the Pixel 9 pro fold

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      Anecdotal of course, but my flip phone has been great for mental ver a year, and my friend has had his for a couple, but ymmv

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      3 months ago

      In order to call your mom, you have to:

      Pick a color

      Pick a number

      Pick a number

      Pick a number

      No, not that number, Nora just did that and it’s not funny to get the same one twice

      Okay, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5… Flips open page

      You’re a turd

      Wanna try again?

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    I don’t know why people bother to buy foldable phones, if you want bigger screen just buy tablet…smh…
    Tablet has bigger screen plus it’s cheaper than buying foldable phones

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      I have a foldy phone, I’m never going back.

      if you want bigger screen just buy tablet…smh

      I did, multiple times, sooo many times in all manner of price points, sizes, brands and even OSs (I’ve got fucking Windows tablets WITH cellular FFS just chilling in archive). Do you know what happened to them? They started collecting dust within a couple weeks

      I don’t want to carry multiple devices, even when I do want to I can never get the habit to stick, so I never have the tablet when I need it the most

      My foldy phone solves that issue immediately, it’s a phone when I need a phone and a tablet when I need a tablet.