Just stumbled on this news article, forget about foldable phones, now time for foldable tablets. May it’s an upgrade to Mac’s touch control bar on the keyboard?
How did you like this design? would you like to buy/upgrade to a foldable tablet from a traditional laptop or tablet?
I think this is a great product idea.
But you will have similar issues that samsung fold had 
It all depends on the design. The Samsung fold has a terrible design all around, and is still only slightly better.
With a good design (and time- trial and error) you can get it to work well. This is really just a showcase of the design.
I am miles away from any folding display products for at least hear future and doubt if I would still consider it after that… these will have screen defects and malfunction (never say never though)
would like it the regular way, single screen…
The surface is regular single displays attached with a hinge, shouldn’t have any issues with the screen
meant to reply on techman’s post, ended up replying on the main post 
thanks for the clarification though!
i like the idea of the being to fold the screen with a hinge system. I don’t need anything like this but its a great idea and looks promising.
It would be good to see if Anker were to join with Microsoft in their store to sell Liberty Neo with Microsoft Neo tablets 
So I will come across as an obvious hypocrite. I like to see innovation but at the same time I am skeptical of the cost benefits and reliability. As a general rule I go for version 3 where version 1 has major flaws the designer could not spot due to their personal faith in their own “genius”, version 2 fixes the obvious issues, then version 3 fixes the less obvious issues.
So I own a 1" phone, 6.5" phone, a 8.4" phone and a 10.8" phone. The 10.8 has a detachable keyboard on a full 180" hinge. Each has their pros/cons. the 6.5" phone pro is it fits in my pocket but in many cases I still find it too heavy / bulky. The 1" is on my wrist, it suffers from battery life as its battery size is roughly 1/10th that of the other devices, text input is painful, but very easy to keep with me. The 8.4" allows for two thumb typing and better speakers, the 10.* has the keyboard.
The issue with all these folding devices is they worsen at least one thing to get that bigger / 2nd screen. The obvious in version 1 is cost and reliability. But even at version 3 you’d have either pocket size, or battery life issues as when that 2nd / folded screen isn’t needed its either adding bulk or taking space from something else such as battery capacity. So long as cost is high before version 3, I can own and use multiple devices each of different size, e.g. the 8.4" phone cost me $300 and I keep in my bag so whenever I am with more than just my pockets I have a non-folding bigger phone without sacrifice.
I generally go for version 2. Version 1 is bad, version 2 fixes the issues, version 3 is the same as version 2 but marketed as a different product.
At least that’s the way it is with Apple
With Apple, the newer Iteration is always the " Best iPhone / Watch / iPad Apple has ever created " 
But Apple rarely innovates, most of the time it is ideas from others they just spend more on advertisement and you paid for the advertisment in double the cost of a 2-3 year technology. As someone else has done version 1, from Apple you’re already at version 2, so your logic makes sense. The Apple watch is doing better than Android Wear but apart from that I just sing Danny Kaye in response to Apple’s prices for so-so tech.
I know 
. That’s why I’m switching from iPhones, to either the galaxy series, or the OnePlus phones.
My 6.5" phone is OnePlus. I really liked them in the first couple iterations when $300-$350, value/spec reasons, but my OnePlus 6 is likely my last ever phone from OnePlus as they literally are making $600 phones which weigh down my pocket I find $99 5" phones more attractive, I also can get a big display for less cost in a big non-folding phone, my 8.4" $300 and 10.8" $500 are Huawei.
OnePlus useful benefit is dual-SIM, so for example when touring USA I had both a T-Mobile and ATT MVNO SIMs in my OnePlus6, so as I wandered around geographic diverse areas I could use T-Mobile’s lower cost in cities and use ATT better coverage in rural remote. There is a perfect example of how Android innovates, an open platform, iPhone doesn’t have dual-SIM, and you’re paying extra for glacial “innovation”
So for folding phones, the cost will have to come way down to justify not owning different size devices, literally it is less total cost to have a pocket phone and a large tablet than a bulkier and/or worse specs folding phone. Until the cost issue is addressed (version 3) its just not good use of money. But then I am a hypocrite as I need people to spend their money on version 1+2 to fund version 3.
What brand phone do you recommend? I basically want to get the highest functionality/feature phone. I don’t want to say money is no object, but I’m not really on a budget.
If money isn’t a factor then OnePlus.
One other factor in Android as its open source, is you can just buy a popular Android phone then use community support for software updates, I have a still perfect decent Motorola phone the manufacturer barely supported post release which is getting latest software via the community (XDA, etc). You can do a lot with a budget phone and forums.
Closed platforms suffer forced obsolescence. The manufacturer has to keep earning money by deliberately stopping support earlier for predecessors. In an open platform a product naturally dies when it physically breaks or its specifications cannot keep up with latest software. So, Android and Chromebook. Typed on a Lenovo laptop I put Ubuntu on and is latest software.