Apple's First Foldable Won't Be an iPhone, Supply Chain Sources Say
This leaves us with some pretty wacky options, none of which will hit the market before 2025—if they show up at all.
By Adrianna Nine February 26, 2024
Now that foldable smartphones are a viable segment of the premium electronics market, Apple is working on its own foldable device—but it won’t be an iPhone. People familiar with Apple’s Taiwanese supply chain shared Thursday that the Cupertino-based tech giant is preparing a “larger” foldable device. The sources’ claims dovetail with earlier rumors regarding Apple’s development of a non-iPhone foldable.
Watch out, Samsung! This new Galaxy Z Flip 5 rival is the first truly affordable foldable
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By Axel Metz
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The Nubia Flip 5G costs half the price – but is it half as good?
Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip 6 is hotly tipped to succeed the excellent Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 at Galaxy Unpacked this July, but it looks like the upcoming foldable will have one more clamshell rival to compete with when it does hit shelves in a few months.
ZTE subsidiary Nubia (aka the name behind some of the best gaming phones) has unveiled its first foldable device, the Nubia Flip 5G, at MWC 2024, and despite its budget-friendly price, this colorful clamshell shares more than just a form factor with the Galaxy Z Flip 5.
Known in Japan as the ZTE Libero Flip, the Nubia Flip 5G boasts a 6.9-inch folding AMOLED display (1188 x 2790) with a 120Hz refresh rate, as well as a versatile external display that can double as – wait for it – a camera, a music player, a calendar, a stopwatch, a voice recorder, a step counter, a weather app, and, of course, a plain old clock.
Leak Shows Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 Ahead of July Reveal
The Z Fold 6 is shaping up to be another iterative improvement.
By Ryan Whitwam February 28, 20
Samsung had the foldable market all to itself for several years, but competition is ramping up with OnePlus, Google, and Motorola all launching foldable phones in the past year. Some of these devices make meaningful hardware advantages over Samsung, but a new leak shows yet another iterative update to Samsung's flagship foldable. The alleged Galaxy Z Fold 6 renders show a phone that borrows the Galaxy S24 aesthetic but keeps Samsung's foldable formula largely unchanged.
The first thing you'll notice about the supposed Galaxy Z Fold 6 is that it has adopted a Galaxy S24-style frame, which was itself accused of aping the iPhone. The current Z Fold 5 has a rounded frame more like Samsung's 2023 smartphones.
There are still two screens, a cover display on the front and a larger foldable display inside. The measurements listed for these renders are the same: 6.2 inches on the front and 7.6 inches unfolded. The shape is a bit different, though. The leak says the Fold 6 measures 153.5 by 132.5 by 6.1 mm unfolded, which is 1.4mm shorter and 2.6mm wider than the Fold 5. Samsung's foldables have always felt a bit narrow, so even this small change will be welcome. This isn't the first time Samsung has moved in this direction. The Z Fold 4 was about 3mm wider than its predecessor.
For me, it seems like new smartphones have been getting smaller and smaller upgrades as years go by (higher and higher prices at the same time). I had fully expected AR AI glasses fully replacing smartphones in the 2020s and even more impressive tech coming in the 2030s, but I was too optimistic as usual.
Seems like only AI might change this semi-stagnation.
Tadasuke wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:16 am
For me, it seems like new smartphones have been getting smaller and smaller upgrades as years go by (higher and higher prices at the same time). I had fully expected AR AI glasses fully replacing smartphones in the 2020s and even more impressive tech coming in the 2030s, but I was too optimistic as usual.
Seems like only AI might change this semi-stagnation.
I like the idea of ar glasses replacing smart phones as the screen/input blue toothed to a smart watch that you wear on our arm...with a.i capacities and voice.
All you'll need to do to take a pic is say take pic or take photo. boom
or with this smart watch you could do it manually.
or you could say to link arm or other body part and move the curser around the screen. And simply put to where you want to take the pic and say it.
Say size of screen and move your arms apart as wide as you want it.
Quick comparison of highest performance in (frames per second) in the 4K Aztec Ruins High Tier Offscreen benchmark of Samsung Galaxy S flagship smartphones between 2015 and 2024:
Galaxy S6 - 1.4 fps
Galaxy S7 - 2.6 fps
Galaxy S8 - 4.2 fps
Galaxy S9 - 6.0 fps
Galaxy S10 - 7.6 fps
Galaxy S20 - 9.5 fps
Galaxy S21 - 8.6 fps
Galaxy S22 - 14.3 fps
Galaxy S23 - 24.1 fps
Galaxy S24 - 30.2 fps
30.2 fps divided by 1.4 fps equals 21.57, so there seems to be a significant improvement in that area over the last 9 years, but smaller than between 2006 and 2015.
Smartphones have had a similar user experience for many years now. It's basically a rectangular computer with a touchscreen, microphones, cameras and other sensors.
There is no large improvement in day-to-day user experience. Just advertisements pretending this or that.
I don't want to use such devices, even if they had 100 exaflops of processing speed. They don't feel futuristic at all to me, to be honest. Even 15 years ago I was already thinking about AR glasses and BCIs. I feel like we are stuck. And those "AIs" are still awfully stupid, and nearly everybody outside futurology/singularity circles thinks so too. Literally the only places I get downvoted for saying current AI is dumb and useless are futurism and singularity places. Everywhere else people agree.
Tadasuke wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2024 6:32 amAnd those "AIs" are still awfully stupid, and nearly everybody outside futurology/singularity circles thinks so too. Literally the only places I get downvoted for saying current AI is dumb and useless are futurism and singularity places. Everywhere else people agree.
There's a reason why contemporary AI is so stupid, and it's rather frustrating to see it in practice. The AIs aren't actually stupid; we're just using them stupidly.
And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future
Tadasuke wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2024 6:32 am
Smartphones have had a similar user experience for many years now. It's basically a rectangular computer with a touchscreen, microphones, cameras and other sensors.
There is no large improvement in day-to-day user experience. Just advertisements pretending this or that.
I don't want to use such devices, even if they had 100 exaflops of processing speed. They don't feel futuristic at all to me, to be honest. Even 15 years ago I was already thinking about AR glasses and BCIs. I feel like we are stuck. And those "AIs" are still awfully stupid, and nearly everybody outside futurology/singularity circles thinks so too. Literally the only places I get downvoted for saying current AI is dumb and useless are futurism and singularity places. Everywhere else people agree.
They still feel quite futuristic to me. And the cameras are massively better now than 10-15 years ago, especially video quality.
Though I agree we need a new paradigm – some sort of wearable tech, non-invasive BCI, glasses, etc. would be cool.
Tadasuke wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2024 6:32 am
Smartphones have had a similar user experience for many years now. It's basically a rectangular computer with a touchscreen, microphones, cameras and other sensors.
There is no large improvement in day-to-day user experience. Just advertisements pretending this or that.
I don't want to use such devices, even if they had 100 exaflops of processing speed. They don't feel futuristic at all to me, to be honest. Even 15 years ago I was already thinking about AR glasses and BCIs. I feel like we are stuck. And those "AIs" are still awfully stupid, and nearly everybody outside futurology/singularity circles thinks so too. Literally the only places I get downvoted for saying current AI is dumb and useless are futurism and singularity places. Everywhere else people agree.
The cameras are an improvement, but only because of planned obsolescence. They want you to buy slightly better stuff regularly.
Also, AI is "dumb" depending on how you use it. I've noticed that researchers and similar people know how to optimize them best for their needs, while average people aren't as good with that.
It's also worth noting that Sam himself has roasted GPT-4 as "dumb." I hope 4.5 will be released soon
I'm very interesting which software keyboard, voice recognition and AIs fellow futurology aficionados use on their Android phones.
I've never owned an Apple device by the way, so I don't know much about iPhones. I have a very modern Android smartphone with currently Android 14 OS, no smartwatch or smartband.
I tend to change keyboards, voice recognition providers and settings. I haven't settled yet on anything in particular.
And the cameras are massively better now than 10-15 years ago, especially video quality.