{"id":270115,"date":"2025-07-17T19:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T19:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/270115\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T19:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T19:38:09","slug":"bring-on-the-trifolds-the-verge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/270115\/","title":{"rendered":"Bring on the trifolds | The Verge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don\u2019t get me wrong, I love a small phone. I plan to keep my iPhone 13 Mini<\/a> until it becomes a security hazard. But big phones have clearly won the battle, and if I have to carry a giant phone around then I think it should do more for me. It should have more screens, more ways to prop itself up. I should be able to run two apps at once. Maybe three! My phone should literally bend to my will. But I also don\u2019t want it to be bigger than a regular big phone. A tall order, I know, but then I tried the Z Fold 7. Finally, a foldable that feels so much like using a regular phone that it makes the inner screen feels like it\u2019s all upside.<\/p>\n

If you asked me a few weeks ago what I thought about trifold phones I might have told you that it seems like a gimmick. Who needs all that inner screen? What do you even do with it? I get those questions about the single-hinge Z Fold 7. But here\u2019s the thing: you figure it out. We\u2019re so used to doing things on small screens that I think it\u2019s hard to imagine what to do with a bigger screen until it\u2019s in your hands. Here\u2019s an incomplete list of things that I\u2019ve used a folding phone\u2019s inner screen for in the past week:<\/p>\n

Some of these things are basically impossible on a regular slab-style phone. I watched my colleague Victoria Song try to use WordPress on an iPhone and it did not go well. But some things are just nicer on a big screen, and when something is nicer you might actually do that thing more. I\u2019ve seen more than one Uber driver with a folding phone mounted as a kind of second display on their dashboard. You can do that with a regular phone, but the extra real estate on the inner screen makes a real difference.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve been able to do all of this with a folding phone for years now, but I can\u2019t emphasize this enough: doing these things on a phone that feels about the same size as a regular phone when it\u2019s folded is a huge deal. I could carry my laptop around all day if I wanted constant access to a bigger screen, but for obvious reasons I don\u2019t do that. This is what has converted me to a folding phone believer.<\/p>\n

So bring on more hinges, more screen, more reasons to not get up and find my laptop when I need to do a \u201cbig screen\u201d activity. The trifolds are coming. I\u2019m ready to embrace them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t get me wrong, I love a small phone. I plan to keep my iPhone 13 Mini until…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3159],"tags":[13620,547,326,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-270115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-foldable-phones","9":"tag-mobile","10":"tag-tech","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114870269046971241","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}