Welcome to a bonus episode of the Tech Mem Ride Home. I'm Brian McCullough. You probably know

M. G. Seagler. Once upon a time he was one of the most prominent tech journalists in the land

when he wrote for Tech Crunch, actually for many years he was at the very pinnacle of the

tech meme leaderboard, which is a thing check that out nowadays

M.G is a prominent venture capitalist at g. But he still likes to talk about

gadgets maybe you've heard him do so on Grubers

podcast. Today's bonus episode is nothing sophisticated. There's no deep dive

level of journalism here. It's just two dudes looking at the recent slate of foldable phones and

wondering if foldable phones are really a thing and wondering if it's a thing

that we need in our lives. How about this?

Let's start with the first one, which I don't, somebody, I feel like some random might have

snuck out a foldable phone before this. But the first one that we should think about

is the Galaxy Fold.

All right, there's sort of two models

of these foldable phones that people have gone with so far and the Galaxy Fold is the first one.

Essentially, it's two screens, right?

So that when it's closed you have a screen, it looks like a normal phone. You got a screen on the front and then when you open it up, then it sort of looks like a tablet.

Right. But it does look like a normal phone, sort of, except that like, I don't know, the screen is pretty small on the forward facing one.

The first thing that I said was it's so narrow right and it even it's not only the phone itself is narrow it's sort of like the dimensions of like an eraser from a chalkboard, right?

It does look like that, yeah.

But then...

And especially because it's so thick, right?

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