Possibly, it depends how different the new OS is and whether it’s lighter. Check the XDA Developers forum for your phone.

The pocket comparison is the money shot in that video. So satisfying, particularly as I use a flip phone with a smaller pocket profile so I know exactly how good that reduction in size feels on a daily basis.

Based Kvaesitso user.

I believe you can purchase the OnePlus Open in the US. It’s listed on their US website and I have heard of people living in the US using it.

I think that’s just the nature of smartphone related journalism at the moment. It’s sort of a reflection of where the industry is at: lacking substance and focused on short-termism above all else. In the media this translates to a never-ending hype circle around the latest releases, rumours and “leaks”. Everything else has some clickbait name and a bunch of poorly written, irrelevant filler to pad out the “article” for SEO purposes.

It’s the Apple of Android now in many countries. That is to say, people buy Samsung automatically because of brand loyalty without shopping around. I think part of the reason is probably that Apple is the default yet it doesn’t offer any good value or affordable devices. You always pay a high cost. So when people look at alternatives, they often don’t compare across all price ranges or think honestly about what they need in a phone. They just look for the closest competitor to Apple’s flagships and that is Samsung. Despite the insane price, the Ultra series is still one of Samsung’s best sellers because it competes directly with Apple’s Pro Max series.

Personally I think interests are vastly overrated. Relationships are not about whether you enjoy what you do together, but whether you enjoy doing it together. Part of the magic of a long-term relationship is developing those unexpected shared interests over time rather than going in from day one with the attitude of “I want to date myself”.

It’s not easily repairable anyway, the removable back is a massive gimmick. You still need to do the usual disassembly of the phone with a heat gun, screwdriver, spudger, etc, to replace the battery. There is also a “warranty void if removed” sticker over the battery, which is illegal in some countries and irrelevant in others.

so why bring it up as a usecase for folding phones, the point is getting that screen space on the go.

You didn’t make that point in your original comment, hence my initial reply.

The problem is using such a very specific usecase (someone who uses a tablet to watch things, ONLY at home, prefers to not use a TV, prefers to not use a desktop computer connected to a monitor and does NOT have a laptop, or chooses to not use the size of said laptop) is a very very super specfic usecase.

That’s not a niche use case. Tablets have been the primary media consumption device at home away from the TV for many years. That is literally what they have been marketed as for over a decade now. Very few people sit in bed and watch TV shows on their laptop, or go to a desktop computer to do the same. You are living in a bubble if you think this is normal behaviour for the majority of people.

The folding phone solves the problem

It doesn’t solve any problem with at-home media consumption because there is no problem. Most people already own a tablet or, as you just argued, a laptop. Even if they don’t, there is a massive secondhand market for tablets now. Why would you ever need to go out and spend thousands on a fragile folding device to fulfil this role? It sounds like you have massively fallen for the marketing here.

Is this a joke question? Tablets have always been used at home. Do you have a TV in every single room of your house?

How can you type all this up without even reading the very first sentence of my comment?

But only if that viewing comes while you’re away from home. There is no reason to buy an expensive and fragile folding phone for video playback when you could buy almost any other phone and a secondhand tablet for less. Plus the tablet will have a bigger screen without a crease.

10 months for a version bump when it takes others weeks

It doesn’t take others weeks, only Samsung. Basically every other manufacturer is months behind. Motorola is a full year behind and it is one of the largest companies in the US. Fairphone’s version upgrade schedule is not the outlier you seem to think it is.

Fairphone doesn’t want to be a “real player”, it wants to advocate for, and pursue, change within the industry. This is a company with a profit margin of 0.07% that spends a lot of its time and money on industry level activism like the Fair Cobalt Alliance it launched earlier this year.

You seem to have absolutely zero knowledge or understanding about Fairphone as a company and it is really showing in these weird criticisms and comparisons. It’s not just another generic consumer electronics company trying to become the next Samsung or Apple.

I hate them for many reasons, but Samsung ships OS version bumps on their flagship models in like a ~month from launch.

Why would you compare a tiny company like Fairphone to the largest Android manufacturer Samsung? That makes absolutely zero sense. Fairphone’s net turnover for 2022 was €59 million. Samsung’s net turnover for 2022 was $246 billion.

Yeah I have a Redmi Note 4X running Android 13 LineageOS. It still runs okay.

Nah, it’s pretty easy. I’ve done it many times myself. You have to be pretty unlucky or stupid to brick a phone.

Yeah Samsung is pretty good, one of the “handful” I was referring to. They are consistent and fulfil their promises.

Sounds like you haven’t heard about the new “game changing” phone that allows you to connect a A$39 lanyard!