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Google's New Foldable Smartphone Reviewed By a YouTube Tester, an Android Blog, and iFixit

Google's describes their new Gemini-powered foldable phone as "an epic display of Google AI" (also calling it "unfoldgettable"). The Android Authority blog says the phone is "impressive," "incredibly thin" — and, at $1,800, expensive. But long-time Slashdot reader mprindle notes some com...

This is absolutely normal for a folding phone, though, and really not too big of a deal if you take care it, making sure there are no bits of dust or dirt in the screen when you close it will go a long way to keeping things pristine, since there's not a lot of room between the two halves." iFixit makes an interesting observation: "Over half of the phone's internal area is occupied by the lithium polymer battery cells!" Setting aside the downsides of owning a foldable smartphone, I am excited to see Google and the Pixel team devoting so much time and energy towards improving the overall repairability of the device.

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