A BETTER Folding Phone??
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·TechLinked
·2019-05-06
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1,400 words · ~7 min read
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hey james you want a folding phone yeah i'll just take out a second mortgage
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oh i had a whole nother joke planned for that but i guess we're going with that yep folding phones are officially a
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thing samsung unveiled the galaxy fold last week but this weekend at mobile
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world congress huawei showed off their own design which has
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what i think is an objectively better
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design where samsung's model has a 4.6 inch exterior screen that opens up to
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reveal a 7.2 inch screen with a notch the huawei mate x has a single 8 inch
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screen when unfolded when it's folded that same display is divided into a 6.6
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inch screen on the front and 6.38 inch screen on the back because the camera
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assembly takes up some space on the rear having the display fold on the outside
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saves huawei from having to include a gap like the galaxy fold does it also
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means the device is much more usable in folded mode than samsung's offering oppo
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also showed off a folding phone prototype that uses essentially the same
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design and i don't blame them although it doesn't really matter which one i like more because it doesn't look like
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the mate x will be coming to north america anytime soon which is fine
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because as james alluded to it's expensive it's 2600
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us dollars yeah i can't even conceive of
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that with my canadian brain and i don't want huawei spying on me
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anyway yeah yeah kind of crazy how fast things move though like i thought the
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fold when we saw the galaxy fold i thought that was the future i was like well folding folds are here and now it's
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like the full that's old tech old news boo
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but huawei wasn't the only company innovating at mwc no microsoft showed
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off the hololens 2 which improves upon the original mixed reality headset and
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basically every way it's got a more comfortable fit and higher resolution
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displays but most importantly the field of view has been more than doubled the
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new model offers the same 47 pixels per degree of human vision but with a
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diagonal field of view around 53 degrees per eye still not amazing more degrees
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though more more degrees more better it has vastly improved hand tracking as
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well so instead of pinching your fingers you can reach out and manipulate
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holograms directly you can still pinch you can you like if you like the
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pinching you can still pinch you want to grab it
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and also has eye tracking and voice detection which can be used for things
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like navigating browser Windows and dictating text while your hands are
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otherwise occupied doing what james
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you sicko the hololens 2 is being targeted at businesses first and
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foremost and that's reflected in its price of 3
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dollars which is actually less than the first gen hallways price of five
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thousand but more than a folding phone why not both why not both
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and lg had their own peculiar answer to the folding phone trend adding a second
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screen the lg v50 thinq 5g why we'll be
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able to attach to the dual screen case and turn your phone into an Android
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nintendo ds essentially what are you talking about
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don't understand this
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the second display can be used as a keyboard gamepad or simply used to run
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two full screen apps at once gotta say i almost like this better than the idea of
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a folding phone high five lg oh whoops i just unlocked lg's other
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flagship phone the g8 thin cue which has
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a time of flight sensor that enables users to unlock the device with their
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hand see what i went for a high five
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of course you can also use your face but having a phone recognize the veins in
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your hand sounds way cooler and creepy the sensor can also be used to recognize
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a number of air motion gestures so you can control your phone while your little
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thingies are covered in buffalo wing sauce or buffalo cauliflower james i'm
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sorry i want to close apps by wax off
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exxon swipe right damn girl thanks for talking to me see you later oh it's also
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got a vibrating OLED screen that serves as a speaker cool stuff lg but you're
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they're bet they're better apparently what nokia wants in a
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htc didn't have many phones to show off at mwc but they did have a 5g hotspot
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with em you're impressed
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it's got a 5.5 inch touchscreen so you can use it as a heavy tablet so that's
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cool and it's also got a 7660 milliamp hour battery so you can
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use it as a power bank so it's like a hotspot and a bunch of other things and
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it even has an Ethernet port so you can use 5g with a laptop if you're in a
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pinch although chances are if you're in an area without
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wi-fi there's also going to be no 5g so
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htc what are we going to do with you go to business already
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i liked you i you know i i still have some love for you in my heart but
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and speaking of 5g t-mobile has announced the rollout of their 5g
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network will be delayed as it awaits availability of devices that can use the
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low band 600 megahertz spectrum sprint on the other hand announced they would
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roll out 5g service to atlanta chicago dallas and kansas city in may 2019. as
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for us up here in canada well we'll just wait until you guys down
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there have all got 5g first we don't mind waiting our turn okay have a good
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one well it's about that time i'm still talking like this because i wrote the
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script this way i reckon there'll be a bit more tech news on wednesday so until
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then i gotta take off see you later james
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see you don't forget to send it i know
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take care take care drive safe now