Some years ago, when the news of the first foldable smartphones broke out, I was skeptical about it: that thing's display was going to be plain awful. Boy, was I wrong!
Idk…glass has downsides too. You drop it and it can shatter. I remember when glass on phones first got big and I saw shattered iPhones everywhere. My brother’s iPhone has shattered back glass.
Still to this day, I kind of wish plastic would make a come back in phones. For some reason every phone nowadays has to be coated in glass on all sides to feel more premium for some reason. Even the backside of the phone has it on devices now. It’s odd to me. Plastic housing is just so much more durable.
I’ve been using my current foldable for 1.5 years and the inner screen is flawless. There are absolutely zero scratches. I wouldn’t say I baby the thing at all, although I also don’t use it like a gorilla. I just use it like a normal phone except I use some common sense things. Probably one of the biggest is just not having the soft screen exposed and unfolded while in a pocket or bag. I fold it up before I put it in a pocket.
It’s hard enough to shatter victus glass that I legitimately don’t care about this anymore and would rather have the scratch resistance, maybe making it that shatter resistant and also foldable is impossible, in which case I would just not get a foldable
Yeah I’ve heard this argument, I don’t think we can be completely certain, willow glass by corning is an interesting proof of concept at the very least, crazy tech thought to be impossible has happened before
no crease and a screen hardness of at least 5 is the minimum before I get one
Idk…glass has downsides too. You drop it and it can shatter. I remember when glass on phones first got big and I saw shattered iPhones everywhere. My brother’s iPhone has shattered back glass.
Still to this day, I kind of wish plastic would make a come back in phones. For some reason every phone nowadays has to be coated in glass on all sides to feel more premium for some reason. Even the backside of the phone has it on devices now. It’s odd to me. Plastic housing is just so much more durable.
I’ve been using my current foldable for 1.5 years and the inner screen is flawless. There are absolutely zero scratches. I wouldn’t say I baby the thing at all, although I also don’t use it like a gorilla. I just use it like a normal phone except I use some common sense things. Probably one of the biggest is just not having the soft screen exposed and unfolded while in a pocket or bag. I fold it up before I put it in a pocket.
It’s hard enough to shatter victus glass that I legitimately don’t care about this anymore and would rather have the scratch resistance, maybe making it that shatter resistant and also foldable is impossible, in which case I would just not get a foldable
That’s not possible. Hard things can’t bend like that.
Yeah I’ve heard this argument, I don’t think we can be completely certain, willow glass by corning is an interesting proof of concept at the very least, crazy tech thought to be impossible has happened before
It is still possible to make 90% of that screen harder and keep only the crease as the weak point.
There’s also creating an extremely thin hard layer ontop of a soft one
If it’s folded while in your pocket or bag, why do you need hardness? Do you plan on folding a phone with sand on the screen?
On that note, I don’t think I’ll take my folding phone to the beach on my upcoming holiday
Fingernails currently scratch them… and I have those
I can’t say I have had that problem. I think you need to put force behind your nails to scratch it, my nails aren’t kept short either