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Smartphone manufacturers still want to make foldables a thing (arstechnica.com)
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Smartphone manufacturers still want to make foldables a thing::Foldables are barely 1% of the market, but that's not stopping anyone but Apple.

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[–] Jumi@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I just want a phone without a front camera

[–] RippleEffect@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

That's interesting. Why?

[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is that because of the bump it causes, or something else?

[–] Jumi@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I never used it and I don't like screens with a notch.

[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh, silly me - I misread it as the rear facing camera :)

Notches suck, they're just an anti feature, but considering the vapid selfie generation, I suspect they get a lot of use

[–] Patch@feddit.uk 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't take selfies, and certainly don't post them to social media, but I still use my front facing camera all the time. Zoom/Teams/WhatsApp video calls are a big part of modern life. That's what the camera's actually for, in the context of being a "phone".

[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah that's valid, for sure

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 1 points 11 months ago

My bank requires it for certain actions, where I have to put my face into the frame and blink.

[–] axefaire@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

~the vapid selfie generation~ is such a Boomer phrase lmao

[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

Nice! I'm no boomer but I'm very cynical, maybe there's a Venn diagram there somewhere

[–] neutron@thelemmy.club 1 points 11 months ago

Same. I'm not into selfies. I just want my keyboard.