I don’t really see the point (for consumers). The original foldable designs were trying to achieve the combination of a smartphone and tablet. That’s why they were taller and narrower, because when folded out they were supposed to reflect the shape of a tablet in portrait mode. Then manufacturers started changing the dimensions of the outer display to make it look more like a normal phone, which affected the inner display’s ability to mimic a 16:9 tablet. The inner displays on newer foldables have weird aspect ratios that don’t really suit anything particularly well and this tri-fold design seems to retain a similar ratio for the second of the three display modes. My question is: why would anyone ever use their phone in that second display mode when they can fold it out into a proper 16:9 display? Why would you choose the weird aspect ratio that only exists due to design limitations when you can choose a proper one that will be natively supported by everything?
I don’t really see the point (for consumers). The original foldable designs were trying to achieve the combination of a smartphone and tablet. That’s why they were taller and narrower, because when folded out they were supposed to reflect the shape of a tablet in portrait mode. Then manufacturers started changing the dimensions of the outer display to make it look more like a normal phone, which affected the inner display’s ability to mimic a 16:9 tablet. The inner displays on newer foldables have weird aspect ratios that don’t really suit anything particularly well and this tri-fold design seems to retain a similar ratio for the second of the three display modes. My question is: why would anyone ever use their phone in that second display mode when they can fold it out into a proper 16:9 display? Why would you choose the weird aspect ratio that only exists due to design limitations when you can choose a proper one that will be natively supported by everything?