Why are we OK with thick folding phones, but not with thick no-folds?
Why are we OK with thick folding phones, but not with thick no-folds?
Was watching this video on the "tri-fold" phone by MKBHD and that thing is thicc! I don't care about folds, but I can't find a single phone without a fold phone that is that thick. The battery life would be amazing...
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It's all about marketability. A thin slab phone is more marketable than a thick slab phone. A (thick) tri fold is more marketable than a thin slab phone. I'm sure if they find a way to make the trifold even thinner they would though at that point idk where they would put the USB port.
The tradeoff for a really big screen is a thicker device. That's more valuable to more people than the longer lasting battery. At least in the eyes of the manufacturers. I'm sure if bigger batteries sold better there would be more (any) options. The issue is not enough people care.
I’m sure if bigger batteries sold better there would be more (any) options. The issue is not enough people care.
This in my opinion is only true to some degree. The real world doesn't reflect the idealistic demand->supply concept, and instead there are many other factors that play a role. There's the reverse supply->demand effect aswell, where companies especially through marketing steer consumer demand into the direction that suits them.
The issue is not enough people care.
Here the big issue is that not all qualities are equally easy to experience.
When you go into a store you can immediately see and feel the effect a larger, brighter screen or a thinner device has, the difference in real world battery life for your own specific use case is impossible to quantify. Even more so when asked to extrapolate it into the future and factor in degrading capacities. You can't even directly translate a concrete number like the mAh size of the battery into it, since hardware/software efficiency and useage patterns can distort it substantially.