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The Motorola Razr Could Return as a $1,500 Foldable Smartphone (techcrunch.com)
The iconic Motorola RAZR might be making a comeback as a $1,500 foldable screen smartphone, and it could launch as early as February, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal. From a report: The price point puts the handset north of even Apple and Samsung's flagships, at $1,500. Of course, there isn't really a standardized price point for the emerging foldables category yet. The Royole FlexPai starts at around $1,300 -- not cheap, especially for a product from a relative unknown. And Samsung, the next on the list to embrace the foldable, has never been afraid to hit a premium price point. Ultimately, $1,500 could well be standard for these sorts of products. Whether or not consumers are willing to pay that, however, is another question entirely.
Jesus, that is getting into the price point where you could buy one hell of a desktop machine.
People and their damn phones. No way I'd spend anywhere near that on a phone. Then again, I don't understand why people are so obsessed with their phones as I don't use a smartphone.
I can't tell you how often I see a family of 4 in a restaurant, and absolutely everybody has their face buried in their phone -- there's some "quality family time" for you. Great way to show your kids how to be capable of having a conversation, spend your entire meal reading work emails.
I've also seen way too many managers who can't listen to an answer of the question they just asked in a meeting they called. I've pretty much reached the point where I say "if you pick up that phone again, I'm walking out because I'm tired of repeating myself because you have the attention span of a child". Honestly, you called the meeting for us to give you information, if you can't get through the meeting without asking everyone to repeat themselves half a dozen times, call me when you're willing to focus on one thing for more than 30 seconds. I walked out one time, and I'm told it took almost 10 minutes for the manager to notice.
Smartphones make people idiots. Smart phones that cost $1500 make them bigger idiots.
That was a great feature, the phone was designed to mold itself to the owners butt, making it more comfortable to carry over time.
However I never got why people put their phone in their back pocket. It is like hold on a moment while I pull something from my butt and put it next to my face.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
I used to keep my cell phone in the only sane location I could think of, the front left pocket of my jeans. However, as the width of these phones has increased, this location became less tenable.
I've adopted the butt phone placement and broken a phone screen because of it. But I don't think I can go back, until we start having smaller screens again, or a technological feat that obviates this need.