It's for dads. For real, I just came back from South Korea and every dad had galaxy fold which makes sense as a family travel power phone. Only dads can pull off this absurdly awkward look of unfolding your tablet to take some off-angle pictures of a pine tree lol
I commute by train everyday and having a tablet I can carry in my pocket is really convenient. I only recently got a Samsung Z Fold 4 but am loving it so far.
I hear you but to do what in small tablet mode? I'm genuinely curious what a small tablet gives you that a larger phone (which is lighter & thinner) doesn't?
It's the dream of just opening up your regular phone to have a small tablet, clashing with the reality that your phone will never be regular sized if you want it to be able to do this!
Maybe someday phones can be like 4mm thin, so doubling that for a foldable would be reasonable. But we are definitely not there yet.
I haven't watched the video yet but that comment might be based on his experience with the buggy Pixel 6 Pro? idk about that but Google might've ironed out all the bugs because my 6 Pro is now rock solid.
I'm on my pixel 6 pro since launch and was never really bothered by any of these, and those that were reported in the beginning have been fixed.
I really don't see any accelerated aging here
My only experience was a Pixel 7 that was fantastic at launch, and then dreadful after a handful of updates.
I am on T-Mobile and they had to delay/cancel/unrelease OTA updates because of issues with the carrier network. I ended up having to sell the phone because it would not roam from tower to tower, it would drop signal and then latch to a new tower. You can just imagine how many dropped calls I had.
However my fiancee is still using her Pixel 5, which has been just like new since she got it shortly after launch, and another friend that is still using a 3XL since launch with no issues. Unsure if it should be chalked up to Tensor, or my bad luck.
Most of what he discussed I could live with.... except for such a poor battery life. 4 Hours screen on time? get out of here. that's as laughable as Apple's headset with up to an hour battery life LOL
I feel like I'm getting way better than that on mine. I came from the 7 Pro and, yes, it did better than the Fold on day 1 when I had the screen open the entire time, through my work day (off and on when time allowed) I made it home with plenty to spare and I work 12s.
It's a real shame that a phone that looks that good can turn out so bad. Battery life is the killer here, hopefully Google will be able to improve by Gen2, otherwise I feel like Samsung will remain kings of the folding phone space.