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the trend toward larger and larger phone screens cannot be stopped and something

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needs to be done I mean it's clear at this point that you all would keep a

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tablet in your pocket if you could but you can't

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well okay you can but there's a wrong

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way to do that and there's a right way

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I'm going to be talking about my experiences daily driving a folding

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phone over the last three years because I have a lot to say about it including

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some bad stuff though with that said

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obviously I can't seem to put these things down so I think it's high time

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that I sat down and gave you all the reasons that I think you just might want

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to consider a foldable even if you consider it and ultimately

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link below starting with number one it's a tablet

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that fits in your pocket actually no that's very obvious so let's move on to

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something less obvious if you've never used one of these I do this all the

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freaking time ah

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and it's useful for more than just the flashlight how about if you want to take

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a timed picture for example now instead of trying to find some random thing to

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lean your phone up against and then hope it doesn't tip the wrong way and come

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crashing to the ground you can just turn the whole device into its own stand or

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if that's not necessary for you and you don't mind holding your phone there's

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reason number two haha taking selfies

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where you can actually see the preview on the front screen while taking

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advantage of the more robust rear camera no more trade-offs between image quality

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and making sure that you've got your shot framed right I mean don't get me

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wrong to keep these things as thin as possible they don't always have the best

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cameras around compared to slap phones but they're solid as long as you just

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make sure that you don't drop them in the process of taking your picture a

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downside of foldables in general is that especially if you have smaller hands

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they can be just a little bit unwieldy

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with that said for folks with bigger hands Advantage number three comes in

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clutch the extra width if you're the

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kind of person who struggles to type on your phone without turning it sideways

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you are going to love having all of this thumb space without losing your chat to

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the keyboard and needing to scroll back up and reread the last few messages

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before you finish typing your reply everything is just right there and

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speaking of chatting number four is that folds are fantastic for messaging apps

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you get more of a I don't know how to describe it other than to say a desktop

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like experience where you can both see your current conversation and interact

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with someone and also your contacts list or your other recent conversations wanna

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search for a phone number to text someone without closing your current

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chat no problem can't remember who sent you that funny meme that you want to

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pass along search away all without going offline to whoever you're actively

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chatting with whether it's teams let's what's up Discord I mean everything is

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just plain a richer experience on a fold

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which I guess kind of goes without saying given how much they cost off

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contract that would be a downside but we'll get into that a little bit more

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later you know what's free Doom scrolling social media apps like Reddit

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Instagram or Twitter which oh

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sorry I am apparently legally obligated to call it X now anywho with a foldable

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you can number five double your doom

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scrolling power and use split screen to get two candy bar size apps going at the

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same time it's not perfect things can get a little

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cramped but it is certainly better than not having the option and when it works

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perfectly it is pretty dang sweet kind

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of like our adorable and compact new stubby LTT screwdriver lttstore.com oh

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another here's one you didn't think of is retro content man I get so much use

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out of this whether you want to emulate older games or watch episodes of your

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favorite classic TV shows without the visual gags freaking cut off it's

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awesome I mean okay six by five isn't

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quite four by three but it's at the point where those annoying black bars

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aren't nearly as annoying and if you want to watch more modern 16x9 content

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the larger screen still helps whether it fits perfectly or not bringing us to our

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next Advantage the screen it is huge and

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there are a ton of ways that this is useful this is actually more like three

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or four different points I mean looking at Google Maps reading comics are manga

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even just for text reading I kid you not guys I legitimately started reading more

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once I switched to a fold oh oh and the

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productivity it is great for spreadsheets and greater rur for remote

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desktop access like

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my whole monitor up it's awesome there

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are certain activities where more screen is more better

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full stop one that comes up very frequently for me is sharing pictures

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and videos with my elderly relatives all I gotta do is crank the brightness whip

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open my pocket tablet and they can actually see their grandkids dance

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performance instead of like smiling and nodding then when I'm done I slip it

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into my pocket good luck doing that with

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a tablet okay yes yes yes but but I don't look

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ridiculous right now speaking of tablets while foldables are

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notorious for not being perfectly flat number eight is still valid there is

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plenty of space to draw or take notes on them and being in your pocket means that

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you are much more likely to have one on hand compared to your full setup if the

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urge to Doodle strikes you and it's that versatility that I love so much about

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these things like how about number nine I'm not often the kind of parent to hand

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my kids a device to keep them quiet but for my daughters with a foldable they

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can both draw on the same Canvas OR the same color by numbers sheet which

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actually leads me to number 10 two-player games

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again I'm not super down with phones during family time especially at the

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table but the problem is not that I'm allergic to screens or something thank

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goodness right I'm not allergic to screens it's the

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asocial aspect so I don't mind if

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they're playing a game with each other and I can't even count the number of

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times that we've whipped out the aptly named two players app to kill some time

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while we wait for food to arrive and it is so much better if you're gonna have

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two hands on the screen to have it be a bigger one so we can sit and play

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without being buried in our separate devices finally number 11 is more of a

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bonus round kind of thing but it's funny even several Generations into these

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things they are pretty unusual and they are an instant conversation starter we

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just hosted our LTX Expo and surprise surprise lots of the people had them

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there but even then the effect was clear people constantly wanted to talk to me

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about it and I even saw other attendees just explaining their folding phones to

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people they're just plain cool I mean it's one of the first times in years

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that we've seen anything remotely exciting in phone design a couple of

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decades ago I mean companies were trying everything to stand out and do something

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different while also offering desirable features but most of the time then it

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just seemed to make the device hard to use and now we've gone full swing the

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other way where it's just boring with a foldable you really are getting the best

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of both the phone and tablet worlds and if you can look like a cool baller doing

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it congrats I guess I mean I've never

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really managed to pull that off though of course I'm not done yet I've got a

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few more downsides that came up in some of the instant conversations that I

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started with my foldable at LTX how many of you out there with a candy bar

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replace your screen protector every 6 to 12 months

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no not many of you well with one of

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these bad boys that may be necessary like me Elijah from our Logistics

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Department recently had to remove his because the center eventually bubbled up

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and cracked like mine his still worked

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fine but I mean who spends this kind of money on a phone to have it look gross

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and crusty and we've seen a bunch of reports from others who have experienced

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the same thing actually had some people at LTX walk up to me and show them as

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well on top of that after removing the screen protector on my own foldable I

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was too lazy to replace it so I'm just running it bare eventually the screen

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itself started to crack and since I just

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can't go back to a regular candy bar at this point I am now that guy daily

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driving a cracked screen unless I want to replace the whole thing I can't speak

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for the newer generation panels but that's the experience that I had with

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mine which is a couple of generations old another issue is much more obvious we

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talked about how you can fit more screen in your pocket since these tend to be

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shorter especially the Google pixel fold this this thing is like it's

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tiny it's also significantly thicker

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than your average smartphone these days and it's pretty heavy to boot finally

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we've touched on this before but it Bears repeating the software can have

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the odd issue one of the two-player games that I would like to play on my

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folding device doesn't work it's this free checkers app and they are expensive

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I personally love using volts but they

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