{"id":2285,"date":"2026-07-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/25\/folding-and-flipping-phones-are-getting-seriously-good\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T12:00:00","slug":"folding-and-flipping-phones-are-getting-seriously-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/25\/folding-and-flipping-phones-are-getting-seriously-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Folding and flipping phones are getting seriously good"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: David Pierce \/ The Verge\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/Installer-137.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hi, friends! Welcome to <em>Installer<\/em> No. 137, your guide to the best and <em>Verge<\/em>-iest stuff in the world. (If you&#8217;re new here, welcome, happy phone season, and also you can read all the old editions at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/installer-newsletter\"><em>Installer<\/em> homepage<\/a>.) <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This week, I&#8217;ve been reading about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/20\/technology\/google-ai-open-web.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zVA.A1LZ.AwMkNDLrNcPc\"><strong>Google Zero<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/20\/style\/armored-cars-bulletproof-american-drivers.html\"><strong>armored cars for rich people<\/strong><\/a>, watching a lot of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@thats_a_bad_idea\"><strong>That&#8217;s a Bad Idea<\/strong><\/a> videos now that YouTube knows my love for Curry Barker, testing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.2doapp.com\/\"><strong>new 2Do redesign<\/strong><\/a> for my tasks, watching <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JOqjtRPvZuo\"><strong>this excellent doc<\/strong><\/a> about the legendary designer Susan Kare, obsessing over every sound on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@jauffres_sounds\"><strong>the Jauffre&#8217;s Sounds TikTok<\/strong><\/a>, sending myself lockscreen notes with the new <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/mononote-one-note\/id6788222857\"><strong>Mononote<\/strong><\/a><strong> <\/strong>app, and trying to vibe-cod \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/971004\/z-fold8-xteink-x4-light-flip-installer\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"bkbc-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Verge<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 137, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you&#8217;re new here, welcome, happy phone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[315],"class_list":["post-2285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-the-verge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}