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I have tried to get excited about this and I just can't get their yet. I'm sure folding devices will eventually be amazing but to me this really just feels like I wouldn't have a use case since I already have small laptop and a large phone.

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> I have tried to get excited about this

Why? You don't need to be excited or amazed.

It's either useful to you or it isn't. If it's not useful to you, don't buy it.

There was a time when phone upgrades had big jumps in features that had a lot of excitement and people camping out to get one. I think this counts as one of those big jumps for Apple. I haven't been excited since I spent a lot of time checking the phone stores for an iPhone 4 and when I got it the feel was off - it seemed too fancy and too easy to break or scratch. I imagine this is a ~$2000 device, it's a lot of money for something you can drop, or get crunched in your pocket or bag. My pet peeve is no real Firefox and ublock: origin on iOS. The ecosystem is too restricted, and yet pushes apps that send all the telemetry at the same time. I'm more excited for future meshtastic enables phones, maybe some enterprising Chinese manufacturer will make the rugged LoRA phone of my dreams!

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