Apple’s long-rumoured foldable iPhone could finally become a reality if a recently awarded patent is any indication. This patent hints at a revolutionary self-healing screen.
Apple’s long-rumoured foldable iPhone could finally become a reality if a recently awarded patent is any indication. This patent hints at a revolutionary self-healing screen.
I just want a small phone again. Wish they’d bring back the Minis
I just want phones to be fun again. There’s a YouTube series literally called ‘When Phones were Fun’. Where a guy presents all of these models from different manufacturers in the 2000s that all had these crazy but unique phone designs.
Small phones, sliding keyboard phones, compacting phones, media device phones .etc that just had character to them.
But no, we’ve been living in an era of phones where they’re just a series of degrees of rectangular shapes. This one is tall, this one is a little wider and it’s just boring. Flipping the phone inward of itself isn’t really that interesting because it’s just a flip phone now with a screen that can do it.
Full market saturation. They’re washing machines now. We shouldn’t be caring so hard about them anymore. We’re pretty much at the peak of mobile telephony the way we know it. Let’s come up with something totally new and focus on other tech. It’s like still being excited over mass-distributed electricity 40 years after its rollout.
Most of those other types of phones aren’t around anymore because nobody bought them. Sure, small phones are great and I even had a 13 mini, but I’m one of like 20 people who bought it. I’ve never ever seen a sliding keyboard phone in the wild, just on YouTube. Same for those other more eclectic devices. The market has spoken, and it said “giant slabs of glass please”.
We all had sliding keyboards or even physical ones back in my day.
It does seem pretty dumb that Apple ditched the mini form factor after the 12
Edit: it was the 13, my bad. But still, why did they have to kill it?
There was a 12 and a 13 mini.
13, and it just wasn’t worth it. They weren’t selling well enough to justify the manufacturing cost.
I do love the iPhone Mini though. My sister has one, and every time I see it I’m delighted by how tiny it is compared to my Pro Max.
The problem with the minis is that they got no battery life.
Make the fuckers 2mm thicker, gain 10 hours battery life. 5mm more, two days life. Bam. Solved.
The other problem is that only a small, but loud, group buys them. They don’t sell as well.
That’s not my experience. I’ve got a 13 mini for 2 years now and I can go one day easily. I charge every night anyway, so it’s more than enough for me. On low power mode, it’s probably more like 2 days.