I recently saw this update from MKBHD about what he and others think about the phone.
Majority of them felt that, strangely, the best part of the phone was the external screen used about 90% of the time, and the internal screen used 10% of the time, though they still loved the internal screen when apps supported it.
I’m wondering how other Pixel Fold owners feel, now that they’ve had the phone for some time?
I semi agree. I wouldn’t say it’s 90/10, but close… Maybe 80/20?
I ran a Fold for a while, and I was probably 80% inside screen and 20% outside. The Samsung cover screen sucks. It’s basically useless. The Pixel Fold outside screen is more useful to me than a regular phone - it’s not as tall so tapping stuff at the top isn’t as much of a pain.
But the Pixel inside screen experience is just worse. Samsung allowing forcing apps to use the full screen works way better than dealing with snap/Instagram/etc that just don’t support it so you get a stupid letterboxed experience. And it’s centered so you get the seam taking up like 30% of the used screen space. Its multiwindowing is just plain worse than Samsungs too.
But the inside screen opens the natural way you’d want to use it.
Foldables are still a little clunky just because the software isn’t there and apps don’t support it. It’s something I would recommend to geeky/techy people, but not to people who aren’t into that sort of thing but it’s still not QUITE there yet.
My main complaint is the cover is a touch too wide… Trying to reach the bottom left back button is a little too much of a stretch. And the fingerprint reader could be a bit better - the folds works better, but the Pixels still is better than most in screen fingerprint readers.