• simple@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    On the other side of the foldable spectrum, the OnePlus Open is a welcome addition to the mix with the best screen format on a book-style folding phone. It’s thin and light, and the software includes some thoughtful approaches to multi-tasking — a crucial part of the folding phone experience. At $1,700, it’s just $100 shy of the Pixel Fold and Galaxy Z Fold 5 and misses a couple of key features that both of those other options include: wireless charging and an IPX8 rating.

    Does anyone really care about these though? Wireless charging is really niche and worse than wired in every way, and water resistance is one of those things phones love advertising but nobody ever notices.

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      1 year ago

      Couldn’t disagree more. Both are huge selling points for me, and have virtually no downsides, unlike other phone features.

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        1 year ago

        Wireless charging has huge downsides. What do you even mean? Slower charging, huge energy waste, heats up like mad

    • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      I used to think the same way until my wife’s phone stopped charging via cable because the USB port failed. The fact that it can charge wirelessly has kept the device usable.