• Joelk111@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Guys, we had the optimal form factor, the LG Wing, years ago! No folding displayed required!

    I’m not even joking. I used mine for years and loved it.

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      18 hours ago

      I really miss my LG Wing. The USB port went out first and I used to charge it only with wireless charging for a few months but that’s just not viable for longevity. No shop around here wants to take a crack at repairing it for me.

      Genuinely the second small screen is so useful. I can have my navigation and music player on screens and not muck about as much. I can list more but now I’m ashamed as most of what I use both for are for media consumption lol

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      Guys, we had the optimal form factor, the LG Wing, years ago! I used mine for years and loved it.

      I genuinely thought this would be some old ass phone from when before smartphones were a thing.

      It came out in 2020. The phone I’m typing this on came out 1,5 years after that.

      Also what is this monstrosity??

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        It’s awesome multi-tasking bliss, and it’s durable, and it’s easy to repair if you do break it!

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      I like the Surface Phone 2 form factor. Having the display be glass helps a ton, and the bezel inside is pretty small. It would be even better with an e-ink outer display; that’s plenty for most phone things, and then you could open it up for videos and such.

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        Yeah, another great phone that we need more versions of. LG also tried that via a case for the Velvet.

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          18 hours ago

          And the G7 and G8 before the Velvet.

          In fact LG was one of the few ones to try the dual screen phones. For them, it’s via add-on cases. Then there’s the Microsoft Surface phones. But then you have no choice because it’s always attached. They’re more like prototype current foldable phones though.