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Foldable flip phones are an overly complicated solution to a nonexistent problem.
They solve the same problems as the original folding phones. They allow you to keep you phone in your slacks or skirt pocket without destroying the look of your outfit or the screen of your phone.
Slab phones are a disaster for pocket-ability. Yes you can shove it in your back pocket where it looks like ass, breaks your ass when you sit down, and breaks the screen or the phone itself if you sit down in the wrong way or on the wrong thing.
Women’s pants are practically non-existent. I was elated to finally find a phone that can fit in my damn pants. Been on the Z Flip line ever since and I’d be heartbroken to see it go.
Plus whipping it open and closed to answer and disconnect calls is fun AF.
Women’s pants generally aren’t deep enough. So the length of the phone absolutely makes a difference over the thickness in terms of that.
Source: My pants. It had been a frustrating saga over the ever increasing size of smartphones when women’s pants pockets weren’t expanding to match. Stumbled into the Z Flip line and was hooked. It finally did solve the problem for many of us
That’s actually not the case with the newer folding phones. The Z fold 7 is only 10% thicker (8.9mm) when folded than the s25 ultra (8.2mm), for example. The clamshell flips do run a bit wider at 13mm but they’ve really come a long way and I’m sad to see the market for them dying.
They solve the same problems as the original folding phones. They allow you to keep you phone in your slacks or skirt pocket without destroying the look of your outfit or the screen of your phone.
Slab phones are a disaster for pocket-ability. Yes you can shove it in your back pocket where it looks like ass, breaks your ass when you sit down, and breaks the screen or the phone itself if you sit down in the wrong way or on the wrong thing.
Folding phones solve those problems.
Maybe this is just my male privilege, but I have never had a problem putting a slab phone in one of my front pockets, and my wallet in the other.
Women’s pants are practically non-existent. I was elated to finally find a phone that can fit in my damn pants. Been on the Z Flip line ever since and I’d be heartbroken to see it go.
Plus whipping it open and closed to answer and disconnect calls is fun AF.
Yes, it is definitely male privilege.
With folding phones, you now have a slab half as tall and twice as thick. Not really solving too many problems with that form factor.
It’s not though, it’s about 1.5 times as thick. And it feels way smaller in your pocket than slab phones do.
If my phone was twice the thickness it’d still be thin. I’d trade space for some extra battery any day, and/or for this.
Women’s pants generally aren’t deep enough. So the length of the phone absolutely makes a difference over the thickness in terms of that.
Source: My pants. It had been a frustrating saga over the ever increasing size of smartphones when women’s pants pockets weren’t expanding to match. Stumbled into the Z Flip line and was hooked. It finally did solve the problem for many of us
That’s actually not the case with the newer folding phones. The Z fold 7 is only 10% thicker (8.9mm) when folded than the s25 ultra (8.2mm), for example. The clamshell flips do run a bit wider at 13mm but they’ve really come a long way and I’m sad to see the market for them dying.