5 Reasons Why Curved Phones May Not Be Worth Buying

Several years ago today, phones came in a variety of designs, the vast majority of which shared a separate keyboard. After that, 3D screens technologies began to appear, and then the case settled on the flat-screen versions and smartphones without a keyboard. It seems that the designers chose to change the designs of smartphones from 2019 until now and in the future as well. There are many foldable smartphones available in the market for purchase by the average user and not as an experiment for professionals only. Thus, a new era in smartphone designs has begun, which is the era of "curved smartphones", whether the bend is horizontal or vertical. But I think there is plenty of time to avoid buying bendable phones, and by avoiding, I mean it, that is, I do not recommend buying these phones.

 

Below, we explain the reasons for not buying curved phones now...

 

First: the layers of protection for large screens

 

Everyone encouraged the shift that took place in the smartphone sector, in which the back surfaces of these devices were replaced with glass instead of metal. Glass was able to provide a large area for the practice of design creativity, and with this development, there are many types of glass available with different layers of protection, such as generations of Corning glass.

 

Glass is pretty cool and durable as an exterior construct for smartphone designs, but phones are fixed faces. As for curved smartphones, there is no doubt about the ability of glass to bend. So, all foldable phones now have a plastic protective layer on their screen, not a glass layer. This will affect the daily user experience in terms of scratches that may appear on the phone screen, or even the presence of some dust between the two layers of the phone during folding, which will affect the texture and shape of the plastic layer.

 

Second: the vulnerability to breakage

 

Perhaps you think that one of the positive aspects of the large screens in bendable smartphones is the presence of a screen with a plastic protection layer, so at least the protective layer will not break when the phone falls, right?! But what about the internal joints responsible for the dynamics of opening and closing parts of the phone screen?! Wouldn't it be more prone to breakdowns than other phones with flat screens?

 

Companies may announce a certain number of openings and closings before their phone screens malfunction. However, what if your usage exceeds this value? What if the phone supports 120,000 opening and closing times, and you exceed this number due to the nature of your use?! What if the phone breaks down?! And what is the value of repairing it?!

 

Third: Application support and updates

 

Why did you buy a new phone in the first place?! Before spending a lot of money on a new phone, you should know why you want to buy this phone and define your requirements very precisely. Do you want a tablet screen in your pocket at all times?! Don't expect miracles from new curved phones just because they are expensive. Developers involved in developing applications compatible with the Android operating system suffer from the large number and variety of devices that these applications are required to support.

 

So, we are back to the old problem that has always been the reason behind the migration of many users to iPhone phones with the iOS operating system, which is the lack of updated and equivalent applications with their phones all the time and over the years. You will surely be amazed at the experience of watching videos on large curved screen phones, but will you live the rest of your life doing nothing but watching videos?!

 

Fourth, the designs are not very comfortable or seamless

 

The first marketing point for bendable devices is that they can be converted into a tablet in a jiffy, right?! But you must remember to answer another question, will you use the tablet feature all the time?! The thickness of bendable smartphones is almost double that of the usual smartphones, which is annoying.

 

Besides this, you will never be surprised by the difference in battery performance of bendable smartphones. The difference will be very small, which will make you always need to travel with a charger or an external power bank, which is not comfortable at all, especially when remembering the dimensions and weight of the bendable phone from the original.

 

Fifth: huge costs

 

Two years after their first appearance, bendable smartphones are considered a new technology that is still in the stages of development and improvement. It follows that there is not enough supply of in-house parts and that there are not as many manufacturers to support these technologies. There are several versions of only bendable smartphones. Its price is still not appropriate, and too high. There are still clear and explicit design flaws, but you will pay the phone in total for having a curved smartphone from the phones of the future.

 

However, we do not deny the success of companies, especially Samsung, in developing their own versions of bendable smartphones over the course of two years. However, phones still have screens that are not supported by layers of glass protection, and there are still many possibilities for malfunctions in the internal joints between the two separate parts of the phone. Remember those drawbacks when you're about to pay close to $2,000 for a curved-screen smartphone. I absolutely do not advise you to take that step now.