Foldable smartphones have reached their fifth major generation, as heralded by Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Fold 5…
For me it’s definitely the durability concerns. I’ve valued my phone’s water and dust resistance since getting an ip67 phone years and years ago. My brother had a flip and a grain of sand in his pocket got under the display; when he closed the phone the display died. And they expect me to pay more for the privilege.
The trade off of a phone being half as tall is it’s twice as thick.
I’m a man and pockets for men usually aren’t super short so the phone being tall isn’t an issue. And I definitely don’t want the phone to be twice as thick. Women’s clothes with their awfully small pockets I could understand. But I’m a big MFer so pocket size isn’t a problem.