Huawei unveils new trifold smartphone before Apple’s iPhone 17 reveal

i'm the opposite way. i see no use for a phone that folds in half. i like my phones to be usable one-handed, and having a clamshell shape that folds out into something i can't reach my thumb over is just dumb. but if i can have a normalish candybar phone that unfolds into a whole-ass tablet in my pocket? absolutely.

...but not for $2500. maybe for like... $1000. that's twice what i paid for my last phone.

the only advantage i can think of is to maintain more traditional tablet aspect ratios. single fold phones tend to have a very square screen when opened.

Eventually they‘ll go full circle (literally) and come back to scrolls.

I'll be releasing 15 fold shortly, hold on to yo butts!

As long as it wasn't too cumbersome as a phone, the option to have a full on tablet that could fit in your pocket is somewhat attractive. I don't have much use for a phone that folds into a bigger phone (current foldable market), but if this was done right I could see some appeal.

I see your three and raise you seven.

Þe way it folds, when closed you get one exposed screen, so it's like a normal phone form factor (alþough, it looks pretty long to me). When open, it's a tablet wiþ a bigger, more normal-sized, tablet screen þan þe truncated bifolds.

Apparently, enough people want foldables þat Apple decided to release one - or were you asking why anyone would want a larger screen?