Unfold It

I haven’t talked much about my tech on here lately, because most of it has been fairly unremarkable — I love the tools that I have, but not much has been all that much different from past tools. For example, I purchased a new laptop recently (an ASUS Zenbook 14), and it’s an excellent laptop but it’s essentially just a newer version of what all of us already use

However, I recently picked up the new Google Pixel Fold and it’s worth digging into a bit.

Love it or hate it, is something very different from any phone that I’ve used before and it’s been fun to play with. Samsung has been building folding phones like this for a few years, and now it’s Google’s turn. It seems likely that Apple will reveal one in the coming years as well, but we’ll see.

If you’re not familiar with the Pixel Fold, this quick review from Marques Brownlee gives a great overview:

His take lines up well with what I’m experiencing, and I agree that the quality of the cover screen matters a lot. While I’m opening it up quite a lot right now to play with the large internal screen, I’m still probably 80% on the outside screen to quickly check text messages, emails, etc, throughout the day. If the outside is too much of a pain to use, that kills the entire experience. Fortunately, the cover screen on the Pixel Fold is quite solid.

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