Samsung’s Passport Pivot Is the Best Thing to Happen to Foldables

We’re living through a peculiar moment in consumer tech. Flat, glass phones are finally boring.

Walk through any city, and you’ll notice there’s a particular interest in returning to the past. There’s a resurgence of vinyl shops, the hipster renaissance of film and digital cameras, and Y2K fashion trends coming back around in full swing. Younger generations, especially, are gravitating toward the tactile, the analog and the intentional.

This extends to our gadgets, too.

There’s something about holding an object that demands interaction beyond a quick swipe, making technology feel less like a utility and more like a tool you want to pick up. After a decade of watching billions of people hunched over glowing glass rectangles, it seems like we’re all exhausted by the sameness of it.

That’s the zeitgeist that foldables are actually riding, and Samsung just figured out how to weaponize it.

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