Maybe we don’t need folding displays. Maybe we just need tactile keyboards… - Yanko Design

Folding displays are innovation, simply what positive touch do they bring to a smartphone? What does a larger screen achieve? Tablets are a dying tech category, and non many apps are optimized for a massive squarish display (Instagram even so doesn't exist for the iPad OS). The folding display only has two foreseeable benefits. Bigger screen for media (nonetheless strange, because 16:nine media on a foursquare screen means a waste of infinite), and bigger screen to facilitate multitasking.

The folding displays are still largely a 'power flex' (Geddit? Because they're flexible?), designed to brand phones look unlike and to make companies look like pioneers of innovation. The Pro1 phone by F(10)tec on the other hand, innovates by looking back at a format that has, for long, served its purpose well. The Pro1 features a sliding screen that slides sideways to reveal a QWERTY keyboard. While phones slowly and steadily get equally powerful as laptops, and while people are now increasingly using phones to type out mails (I've typed my share of articles on my phone likewise), the Pro1's tilted-screen and QWERTY keyboard build helps bring the useful format to the smartphone globe. This not just helps differentiate it from the hoardes of bezel-less notch-filled smartphones, just besides brings true value to information technology.

The Pro1 features a sliding screen that promptly angles at 155° to requite y'all the perfect viewing angle every bit yous type on its fully loaded QWERTY keyboard beneath, featuring v rows of keys and responsive, tactile feedback within each keystroke, an experience heavily missed after over a decade of touchscreen typing.

The Pro1 also packs a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor, a rear dual-camera organization with Sony's IMX363 sensor (capable of recording 4K/30fps, a fingerprint sensor on the side, dual SIMs, stereo speakers, 6GB of LPDDR4 memory and a retentivity slot that'southward expandable up to 2TB. This makes the Pro1 an extremely good featured phone, particularly for its $649 price tag. Take that, over-expensive, flexible, darehoped-for-unlike smartphones!

Designer: F(ten)tec