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I mean why though? Folding a screen in half is still pretty cool, I swear I've been seeing it demonstrated at CES's since like 2005 or some shit lol
Things can be cool and unnecessary at the same time. Can some people list reasonable use cases for a bi/trifold phone? I am sure they can but 99% of people absolutely don't need a bi/trifold phone to browse social media or the internet, make calls, send text messages etc.
On top of this these folding phones still are not coming with the features that I really want: micro SD card, rf receiver, headphone jack, a phone OS that isn't bloated spyware, that I can drop from more than a couple feet on accident and not worry about it being a health hazard. (A good stylus is a plus.)
Well the biggest use case is everything you would use a tablet for without having to carry a tablet. For me personally, it's the first and only tablet I actually use with regularity, I have SO many tablets I've bought in the past that ended up collecting dust in archive for the simple reason that they're not around me when I needed them the most. So by your reasoning, the entire tablet category is unnecessary
MicroSD card and the headphone jack is never coming back outside the niche categories, though as the Foldy tech matures it could come within reach of one of those niche manufacturers
RF Receiver? Unsure what you mean here, do you mean FM Radio?
For an unbloated spyware free OS you'll have to pickup a Pixel and flash GrapheneOS to it, which both of the Pixel foldy offerings are fully compatible with
Samsung is also rumored to be working on getting a stylus into the Foldy line up, though it is fairly tricky with the space constraints of a foldy
What do you mean by "health hazard"?