Cool project. I'm very disappointed however, to see the creators using clever editing and high production values to deliberately lie about otherwise minor shortcomings.<p>The outer case isn't 3D printed - it's an off-brand iPhone 12 Pro cut in half. The split screen hack is just FloatingDock for Cydia. And the triple lens camera enclosure is a non-functional mockup.<p>To imply the case was 3D printed, they show a Blender file - in reality, this was only used for promo animations. The printer from the video can't output that kind of product, so they took a cheap iPhone lookalike (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5mSrWqw3No" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5mSrWqw3No</a>) and cut it in half, combining it with the Razr hinge.<p>The triple rear camera is from the off-brand iPhone, with no functional sensor behind it. A second device is used to demo the real camera - one with a rough outer finish, and a likely-unfinished back which is never shown. You can identify this device in the videos by the 4 lenses on the front.<p>These flaws are certainly nitpicks - the project overall remains nothing less than amazing. Surely any hacker would brush these off as artifacts of the creative process.<p>Which is why I'm deeply disappointed to see the creators diminish their own achievements by outright lying about these minor details. And with such slick editing too. It leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
Why did we never end up with a normal folding smart phone form factor? By which I mean take two square touchscreens and attach them with a hinge, like a pocketwatch.<p>Is the bar down the middle really too much of a hassle? I suspect it would not take too much engineering to make one with bezel free screens, you would still get a seam, but no ridge.<p>In most other metrics it would appear to be a winner, protects the screen, compact. Don't get me wrong the folding screen is an amazing bit of tech, but from the durability standpoint, i don't like it a bit.
I'm not sure if I'm understanding the subs correctly, it mentions they used an "original" iPhone screen (and went through 37 of them) before they were able to successfully extract layers and get the bendable display working. But it's not clear exactly what they did, how do you go from original non-bendable screen to bendable one? And what do different batches have to do with this?
Watching the demonstrator scrolling @12:43 did something in my brain. That looks incredibly compelling.<p><a href="https://youtu.be/k1DxL-vyjfs?t=763" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/k1DxL-vyjfs?t=763</a>