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Ask Jerry: Are tri-fold phones inherently weak?

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To combat this, phone makers keep working on how the glass, the display component, and very tough and flexible polymers can be layered to toughen things up. I have a feeling that the tech has progressed far enough that tri-folding phones won't be any more problematic than "regular" foldables. I think they will be the device that unifies mobile computing and eventually can replace a phone, a tablet, and a laptop.

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