Huawei unveils world’s first tri-fold phone, the Mate XT Ultimate Design

do not want. want removable and replaceable batteries and storage, also a headphone jack because fuck you.

I don't understand the folding phone thing. It feels like tech now is all about creating ridiculous features and tech companies trying to convince us that we want them while ignoring things that would actually be worthwhile like repairable phones, headphones jacks and minimal bloatware.

they can make intricate folding devices now.

but making them repairable is somehow fucking impossible.

Holding out for the Anne Frank Trapper Keeper phone.

I can hear the sand crunching.

this is going to be like the Gillette blades

Is it stupid? Yes! Yes it is certainly. But I's it fucking stupid? It certainly is fucking.

Gimme a fucking keyboard instead of extra screen size

Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Folds.

This technology gets interesting, when I can unfold a full 27" 2k screen.

Plastic screen on the outside seems nice when my gorilla glass screen still manages to scratch

https://theonion.com/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-blades-1819584036/

This is dumb and stupid

Westworld here we come!

Whilst I agree the technology is awesome, £2,000 for a phone, wow, no thanks.

I pick the category 'Things no one Asked For", for $25 Mr. Trebek.

Phones are becoming the new wallets to the point we need something slimmer to pay with soon again.

Shit will get REALLY real when we reach five-fold! Or better yet, touch-papyrus! Just roll that meter-long flab of screen up, and you're good to go!

some origami sheet

Pedantic nit: this thing doesn't have three folds, the name is nonsense.

I wish this was closer to cheap than bat shit expensive.

Also, the only reason I'd want this is for native x64 emulation (which isn't out of infancy) I had a laptop, my cellphone and my work laptop sprawled out today and this all could easily be 1 phone and 2 vms...

Just… why…?

The CEO was just conspicuously spotted with one of these a couple weeks ago, looks like it was a marketing scheme as we suspected.

yay, it solves every non-existent problems!

One time foldable phones where already fucking stupid, whats the usecase for tri now

This is cool but what I really want are rollable screen phones like from Earth Final Conflict.

Coming soon, they will unveil the Huawei xxMatexx XTX Pro X design.

I can see this having some advantages over two-folds. The unfolded screen has a better aspect ratio, there's no need for a "back"-screen and all folds have only one screen on them, allowing the full thing to be thinner.

Price is an issue of course, as well as it having HarmonyOS instead of Android (less app compatibility).