TBO Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 https://www.cnet.com/news/foldable-phones-are-real-heres-who-is-making-them/ Sent from my Jack boot using Copatalk 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 Phones that won't fit in your pocket. BRILLIANT!! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silentpoet Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 welcome to 2001 and foldable phones. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBO Posted January 26, 2019 Author Share Posted January 26, 2019 welcome to 2001 and foldable phones.I wish it was 2001, if I liked my doctor I could keep my doctor! Sent from my Jack boot using Copatalk 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmohme Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 29 minutes ago, Silentpoet said: welcome to 2001 and foldable phones. 5 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmohme Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 I wouldn't mind a waddable phone that could be wadded up into a ball to play trash can hoops when it pissed me off. Better yet, a function that would crumple up the callers phone. Great for when telemarketers call! 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G19 DB Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 1 hour ago, jmohme said: Yup - was going to go take a picture of my folding phone. Thanks for saving me the effort! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silentpoet Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 TBO forgot to include a picture. 2 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minervadoe Posted January 27, 2019 Share Posted January 27, 2019 (edited) Picture this; it's 1981 and you are awed by the scene in the movie Bladerunner where he uses a video payphone. Okay, you're never awed, but the future looks very different from what people would have predicted just a few decades ago. So, I ask, "Where are the flying cars?" I can have a frickin' Dick Tracey wrist radio if I want one, but where's my flying car? Edited January 27, 2019 by minervadoe brainfart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted January 27, 2019 Share Posted January 27, 2019 8 minutes ago, minervadoe said: I can have a frickin' Dick Tracey wrist radio if I want one, but where's my flying car? I want the flying garbage cans! My brother had a phone around then (understudy on a high-dollar play). The handset was bigger than a lunchbox and was carried in a case with all the cables. The batteries were in another suitcase that weigh a ton. It was the coolest thing anyone had ever seen. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minervadoe Posted January 27, 2019 Share Posted January 27, 2019 1 minute ago, Huaco Kid said: I want the flying garbage cans! My brother had a phone around then (understudy on a high-dollar play). The handset was bigger than a lunchbox and was carried in a case with all the cables. The batteries were in another suitcase that weigh a ton. It was the coolest thing anyone had ever seen. A friend did tech support during that era and he was on call a lot. He had a modem that he would literally stick a standard sized phone of that era into (receiver in one hole and mouthpiece in the other). Real leading edge stuff. In the middle of a party, he'd get a fancy text message on his pager, set up the modem, dial in and fix the problem and then it was, "Party on Garth." Instead, we've got robot brothels and Facebook. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brown Hawk Posted January 27, 2019 Share Posted January 27, 2019 1 hour ago, minervadoe said: A friend did tech support during that era and he was on call a lot. He had a modem that he would literally stick a standard sized phone of that era into (receiver in one hole and mouthpiece in the other). Real leading edge stuff. In the middle of a party, he'd get a fancy text message on his pager, set up the modem, dial in and fix the problem and then it was, "Party on Garth." Instead, we've got robot brothels and Facebook. All of 300 baud. If someone showed me a picture of that, I’d have nightmares for a week. Had to do my homework on it. Hawk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cougar_ml Posted January 27, 2019 Share Posted January 27, 2019 So Apple has a filed patents a couple of times in the past, and a more recent one for a foldable phone. How long until they try to sue everyone else out of existance claiming patent infringement because other people came out with folding phones of roughly the same size as Apple's? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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