I recently saw this update from MKBHD about what he and others think about the phone.

https://youtu.be/wOuWmM18jMY

Majority of them felt that, strangely, the best part of the phone was the external screen used about 90% of the time, and the internal screen used 10% of the time, though they still loved the internal screen when apps supported it.

I’m wondering how other Pixel Fold owners feel, now that they’ve had the phone for some time?

  • Ottomateeverything@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I semi agree. I wouldn’t say it’s 90/10, but close… Maybe 80/20?

    I ran a Fold for a while, and I was probably 80% inside screen and 20% outside. The Samsung cover screen sucks. It’s basically useless. The Pixel Fold outside screen is more useful to me than a regular phone - it’s not as tall so tapping stuff at the top isn’t as much of a pain.

    But the Pixel inside screen experience is just worse. Samsung allowing forcing apps to use the full screen works way better than dealing with snap/Instagram/etc that just don’t support it so you get a stupid letterboxed experience. And it’s centered so you get the seam taking up like 30% of the used screen space. Its multiwindowing is just plain worse than Samsungs too.

    But the inside screen opens the natural way you’d want to use it.

    Foldables are still a little clunky just because the software isn’t there and apps don’t support it. It’s something I would recommend to geeky/techy people, but not to people who aren’t into that sort of thing but it’s still not QUITE there yet.

    My main complaint is the cover is a touch too wide… Trying to reach the bottom left back button is a little too much of a stretch. And the fingerprint reader could be a bit better - the folds works better, but the Pixels still is better than most in screen fingerprint readers.