Does it deserve a spot in your pocket, though?
I realize we now live in an era where a $1,000 smartphone is the new normal.
Desensitized, that is, but not completely numbed.
Plunking down more than $2,000 for a smartphone feels like a fools errand.
That seems to be a critical omission in this first-round foldable gadget.
In this case, Id wait for Samsungs tock, not its tick.
The Galaxy S10 is 7.8mm thick.
Lets say that somehow the new equipment is thinner than two of those sandwiched together.
Its almost exactly the thickness of the Nintendo Switch.
The only thing they were wrong in that description was their estimate of the Galaxy Folds thickness.
Thats a hefty smartphone, and more than you might want to deal with when youre on the go.
Other apps, like Lightroom CC, arent quite as graceful.
In those cases, opening the Fold reveals a standard smartphone-sized app window flanked by big black bars.
Some apps like Instagram fill both of the Folds screens but not correctly.
When I was sifting through peoples Insta Stories, the tops and bottoms were always cut off.
On the smaller, front-mounted screen, the sides were truncated.
It remains to be seen just how easy it will be to tweak apps for foldables in Android Q.
No app optimizations for you, owners of $2,000 chunky smartphones.
September is the worst time to launch a new smartphone
Lets face it; Apple owns September.
Thats prime iPhone announcement and release time.
Even Google itself steers clear of September for its smartphone launches.
Id wait to see what comes outand what people think about itinstead of preordering anything right now.
