Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/02/17/glass-on-samsungs-foldab.html
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I can watch Reservoir Dogs or A Clockwork Orange without wincing. Yes somehow, this smartphone review was too much for me to handle.
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Man I want a set of those Mohs scale scribes.
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I’m still convinced these foldable phones are a technology soloution desperatly looking for a problem to fill, not the reverse…
They do have applications, like say a curved display on a EV car’s dashboard or a curved monitor. That makes some sense, but in those cases the screen is fixed…
Having the screen be a hinge, IMHO no…
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Yeah, but at Samsung if it doesn’t catch fire it’s a good day.
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Is it me, or is this gentleman channeling the Lockpicking Lawyer?
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It would be interesting to know what this stuff is. It would be gutsy of Samsung to lie in an overt and easily falsifiable way about ‘glass’; but if it doesn’t have a crystal structure, is solid; and does some glass transition on its way to liquidity a material has a technical claim to being ‘glass’ without necessarily overlapping much with the usual touchscreen-spec silicate glass.
It would be especially cheeky to be marketing one of the thermoplastics that exhibit glassy properties as ‘glass’ and superior to your competitor’s filthy ‘plastic’.
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It’s easier to do that when the phone doesn’t cost $1400.
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Wasn’t there some kind of ultra-hard, scratch-and-crack-resistant synthetic sapphire that was supposed to have been standard-issue on smartphones by now? I’d much rather have that than a phone where you can bend the screen in half.
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While these are useful in a workshop, they are just for measuring hardness of steel so the range is very narrow compared to the Mohs scale. For example every one of them will scratch glass.
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Oh, right, I see they’re HRC 40-65. Good catch.
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in my opinion, he only problem with the folding phone is that it does not unfold into a double wide screen. That would be really cool
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Agent 47 strikes again! Gotta love this guy.
Personally I think he’s channeling Bob Ross.
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Pound pastrami, can kraut, six bagels – bring home for Emma.
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At least scratch it in graffiti…
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Foldable glass. From the folk who brought you transparent aluminum.
Wrecking phones that I can’t afford makes me cringe. Anyway, as it sits in your pocket folded, it shouldn’t be subject to much scratching anyway. I tend to take good care of expensive gadgets.
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