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Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Says 'Screw It,' Here's the Foldable iPhone Early (gizmodo.com)
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[–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

...no they can’t. Do you realize just how thick modern camera bumps are? Even not including the bump phones nowadays are thicker than phones 5 years ago.

The iPhone X was 7.7mm thick. The iPhone 17 pro excluding the bump is 8.7.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    Damn, I keep forgetting that the iphone X was already 5 years ago. 10 years ago then. There has been so little improvements in phones in the ladt 5 years, it all just blurs together.

    I think the point is, we used to have phones that were 9mm+ thick. Iphone 4s and iphone 5c from Apple and Samsung Galaxy S3 and motorola G phones were all that thickness. They even had replacable batteries and expandable storage. Some of those were even waterproof despite all of that.

    I think the main driver of impractical thinness has been marketing, planned obselecence and cost savings.

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