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Moving away from the tall narrow foldables that open to a square, to shorter, wider foldables that open to a rectangle, like the Galaxy Z fold 8 and the rumored iPhone foldable.

by frollogaston14 hours ago|

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Oh. Well that removes the one reason I might care for a foldable, to fit in my pocket or hand.

by phinnaeus6 hours ago|

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The biggest benefit of the passport-style foldable is it might actually fit in your hand. Modern phones haven’t been ergonomic since the iPhone 13 Mini.

by jay_kyburz6 hours ago|

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I want an ultra wide foldable with the hinge on the short side. Like a flip phone

by VCFundedGenYer14 hours ago|

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The younger generation is moving back to 2000s style flip phones with no smartphone features.

Which honestly I support. I still have my LG VX8100 and wish it would work on modern networks.

by frollogaston13 hours ago|

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It's like 0.01% of the younger generation doing that

by princevegeta896 hours ago|

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This is likely a small side track that emerged recently..... but i'm afraid that's not really the situation. the younger generation utilizes a ton of social media, and they would need to rely on smartphones just for that.

by SchemaLoad7 hours ago|

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Not really, there are a couple of new products like that but they are fairly uncommon and inconvenient.

I think there is a real movement to want to use social media and phones less, but I think it's is more likely to come from Apple implementing tools to help break social media addiction than buying a flip phone.

by annzabelle7 hours ago|

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I've looked seriously into doing this, and there are just too many situations where I'm expected to have access to a particular app or website on my phone in day to day life. Maps are also a killer feature, and I use instagram messaging with some friends here (expats with unstable phone numbers).

The best I've had was to turn my phone greyscale, which really helped me cut back on any short form video consumption, but my endless reddit scrolling is still there.

by mapontosevenths6 hours ago|

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I use a thing called Brick. It basically locks all the 'fun' stuff down using the phones built-in features, but you can unlock it by scanning an nfc tag thing.

I leave the brick in my car. I can still scroll if I want, but I have to intentionly get up and move to do it. Most of the time I decide it isn't worth it.

It cut back usage like 99%.

by frollogaston7 hours ago|

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You could get a bad smartphone. For a while the iPhone 6 Batterygate Edition really made sure I'd only use it for essential stuff, cause even typing on the keyboard was a waiting game.

by annzabelle6 hours ago|

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I tried switching to iphone briefly (lifelong nexus/pixel user) because I hate using iphones. I didn't end up holding out very long and I switched back to android after a couple of weeks, and in the switch back, apple screwed up my texting and I wasn't able to receive texts from iphone users for over a month.

Maybe I should go back and do that again. The typing experience on iphone is so poor that it made commenting on reddit (my main vice) painful.

by frollogaston6 hours ago|

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Well it may work, cause at some point Apple permanently messed up how the iPhone keyboard works. I cannot spell anything on the iPhone 12 mini I use every day, but if I pick up my old 5 that's been sitting unused for years, it feels fine.

by squigz6 hours ago|

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> it's is more likely to come from Apple implementing tools to help break social media addiction

What have they implemented?

by frollogaston5 hours ago|

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Screen Time probably