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    other companies made triple fold phones before Huawei, you mean that they brought it to the mass market first?

    like 3,000 bucks or something right?

    It’s difficult to call that innovation when we already have foldable phones, and they haven’t found a new way to do anything, they just added one more standard screen.

    It’s as thick as three phones put together.

    It’s good for them that they went up 50% in China, but it’s been literally federally subsidized since its inception, so a bump not crazy, and they went from 20 to 30% only in cihinq, still 3% total market share.

    it sounds like you have nostalgia for Huawei, which i get, I still have nostalgia for my HTC one, that was the best phone/os I ever had, and definitely the most innovative phone company I used, 468 ppi, still higher than almost every other phone 10 years later, aluminum body, with front-facing speakers and an IR blaster, expandable storage, but they’ve gone the way of apple and Huawei and Google and the rest of them in modern times

    “10 years ago Huawei was clearly THEE leader in design”

    this is when I used Huawei, and my memories of it are pretty bad. plastic frame, identical iphone hardware setup, pretty low power even for the time, pretty low battery, I don’t remember them leading anything.

    I remember the pictures being standard, but I don’t remember anything remarkable or innovative about them.

    can you post photos from your wife’s phone versus your modern phone?

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        51 minutes ago

        isn’t nexus a Google phone?

        it has slightly upgraded specs from the HTC one, but the One came out 2 years previous, with truly innovative features like front-facing speakers so that you could hear the audio clearly and an IR blaster, plus it had self-diagnostics so that you could test a second hand phone before you bought it or troubleshoot yours very easily with the series of diagnostic tasks.

        what’s the innovative part of the 6p?

        ooh, I do like that the Nexus adopted the front-facing speakers and aluminum body from HTC One, that was a smart move.

        not innovative 2 years later after those features were developed, but definitely a smart move by a hopeful company.

        a slightly weaker battery, but 2 years after the HTC One, I would have been interested in the 6P as the logical next step; add 1 GB of RAM, add the new bands, slightly higher ppi.

        I was disappointed when the M8 went backward with PPI, HTC one had 468 in 2013, new huawei phones in 2024 have 402 ppi.

        that’s rough stuff, all the companies are doing it too, skimping out on screens in favor of shitty proprietary software.

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          isn’t nexus a Google phone?

          WHAT? It’s a Huawei phone adopted by Google, and marketed and sold by google with Googles update plan for Android.

          https://www.gsmarena.com/huawei_nexus_6p-review-1355.php

          In the past, every single Nexus device had some kind of compromise, however, we think this may be the first time a Nexus device has ever gotten every aspect about performance, camera, battery, and design just right.

          This phone was widely praised for innovation, the build quality and camera quality, the rear fingerprint sensor, and just all around being amazing. I’m shocked you don’t even remember…?

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      can you post photos from your wife’s phone versus your modern phone?

      Obviously my 4 times as expensive 9 year newer phone is superior. Especially in low light conditions.

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      other companies made triple fold phones before Huawei

      Literally from the article:

      Discovering the Worlds First Tri Fold

      I haven’t seen one, and three separate screens don’t count, because that’s apples and oranges.

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        I saw the headlines, but there were definitely trifled phones before Huawei released theirs.

        I’ll check though.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiHK07J7Bxk&t=33

        first result is the Tecno trifold, and he’s talking about the Samsung trifold Z, which of course, it’s just one more screen, The natural evolution of folding phones to get to the tablet size.

        I don’t think innovation is the word here.

        innovation is a new idea resulting in some sort of paradigm shift or surprising development, not the logical progression of a known process like a foldable phone.

        let me control my TVs and other devices with an IR blaster again please.

        that was innovative.

        I’m glad Huawei is forcing other companies to develop better tri-fold phones so that eventually we have viable phone tablets.

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          He says “It’s gonna be…” these products do not exist.

          he’s talking about the Samsung trifold Z

          Doesn’t exist as far as I can tell. Maybe they couldn’t make it work?

          https://www.techradar.com/phones/the-worlds-first-tri-folding-phone-could-finally-land-soon-and-not-from-samsung

          The world’s first tri-folding phone could finally land soon – and not from Samsung

          So no even if you may have seen it, those were not actual products, but development prototypes.

          innovation is a new idea resulting in some sort of paradigm shift or surprising development, not the logical progression of a known process like a foldable phone.

          That’s just childish, obviously you need technological innovation to make the idea possible. It’s easy to say “flying car”, and that has been done for a century, the innovation is to actually make it happen.
          The tri folded phone is not like previous folded phones, because the screen needs to be able to fold both ways. From THAT point it’s just continuation so you can make any number of folds.

          let me control my TVs and other devices with an IR blaster again please.

          The Xiaomi 13T / 13T Pro have that.

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      t’s difficult to call that innovation when we already have foldable phones,

      It’s not the idea that’s innovation, it’s developing the technology that folds both ways seamlessly and is durable.
      Just because an idea is easy to get, doesn’t mean it’s easy to make. Ideas are easy, it’s making them work that is hard.
      And I’m not aware of a phone that existed previously that could do this and fold out to a single 10 inch screen.
      Even if it already existed, this is apparently the first good one.