RIP to my Pixel Fold: Dead after four days
arstechnica.com
The closed display halves almost touch, and that can smash debris into the screen.

“I didn’t do anything to deserve this. The phone sat on my desk while I wrote about it, and I would occasionally stop to poke the screen, take a screenshot, or open and close it. It was never dropped or exposed to a significant amount of grit, nor had it gone through the years of normal wear and tear that phones are expected to survive. This was the lightest possible usage of a phone, and it still broke.”

This can happen to any phone of course — there are numerous threads on reddit of faulty S23 phones that are only days old, and of course the first Galaxy fold phones were problematic — but still. Rough start!

  • stephenc@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    My single tablet use case is ebooks. I despise the ugly “e-ink” readers and love the simplicity of a cheap tablet. It’s really the only way to read in any situation because reading from even a small laptop is inconvenient in the places I read in.

    Of course, my smartphone use case isn’t that big – emergency calls/texts, typing out grocery lists, and portable storage. I have a simple talk/text plan, no mobile data. Never understood the need for one. In an absolute need, I can seek out somewhere with wifi and use that, but I don’t really even do that. Just never been a smartphone guy. Wish payphones and pagers were still around so I could ditch mobile phones completely.

    Computers are still so far ahead of any mobile device in usability and convenience that it’s not worth using mobile devices casually.

    • colonial@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      My single tablet use case is ebooks. I despise the ugly “e-ink” readers and love the simplicity of a cheap tablet.

      Dang, you’ve got eyes of steel. I could never read books on an LED screen - the eyestrain is just too much. E-ink doesn’t have that issue.