[jsnell]

Presbyopia starts kicking in at around 40-45 years of age, and makes reading on a phone screen increasingly difficult. It's hard to make the text large enough even with the largest of today's normal phone screens, especially considering the aspect ratio. The foldables fix that issue. Not only is the screen larger, but the aspect ratio is much closer to what you want for reading.

I fully expect my next phone to be a foldable just due to this.

[forinti]

I don't get it. You need glasses anyway for everything else.

I've started using glasses and I'm not interested at all in getting a foldable.

What I would like is something like an Ubuntu phone. And better batteries.

[seanmcdirmid]

> I don't get it. You need glasses anyway for everything else.

When you get older, you often start needing two pairs of glasses (or bifocals). One for things far away (the glasses you drive with) and one for things much closer (computer, phone, etc...).

[jsnell]

Right. And at least I find phone use to be markedly different from e.g. computer use in this respect. It happens on the go, unpredictably, and not for very long at a time. I'm totally fine swapping to a different set of glasses when sitting down to work on a computer for three hours, but it's a much bigger hassle to do for a lot of phone use cases.

(I don't like any kind of varifocals.)

[seanmcdirmid]

I use fancy bifocals for that (varifocals?). It becomes more needed as I get closer to 50. I guess that will be even more important at 60…sigh.

[Tagbert]

And that is why my glasses have a progressive prescription. Works pretty well. However there are other changes in eyes that make smaller text a little harder to read that glasses cannot address. Cataracts can start appearing and impact image quality. Eyes can become dryer and focusing on small text can be tiring.

[seydor]

Or just increase the size of fonts. Samsung's font is actually pretty readable so i don't see this being a problem. A phone has to have a manageable small size to be useful.

OTOH they have removed sensors and ports because they want to sell more watches, which is infuriating

[baby]

Pdfs, videos

[adastra22]

Get reading glasses.