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ok i said i'd never buy a foldable. i was soooo wrong.
so my phone from 3 years ago finally died and instead of grabbing another normal phone i bought a foldable since it was at a solid price point to take a chance.
three weeks in and i genuinely can't go back to a regular screen for actual work stuff. not because the phone is "cool" or whatever, it's that unfolding it gives you enough real estate to actually do two things at once without feeling like you're squinting through a mail slot.
yesterday i had my notes app open next to a pdf i was marking up. I didn't have to switch back and forth, didn't scroll up and down 400 times, it was just... there. side by side. on a phone.
i keep catching myself trying to "unfold" my laptop screen out of habit which is insane but also tells you something (it's an addiction make me stop-)
not saying everyone needs one. but if you do any real work on your phone (docs, email, comparing stuff) the small-screen thing starts feeling like a self-imposed limitation once you've used the bigger canvas
anyway rant over, peace.

So I've been messing around with the AI features on my Edge 70 Pro for the past few weeks and the Image Studio stuff genuinely surprised me. Didn't expect this many tools at this price tbh.

Text to Image
Type a prompt, get a generated image. I tried "panda sipping coffee on a cloud" mostly as a joke and the output was legitimately good. Soft lighting, decent composition, not the usual AI slop you'd expect from a phone app. Good for quick wallpapers or just messing around.

Sketch to Image
This one's my personal favourite. You draw a rough doodle (and I mean rough, I have zero artistic skill) and it converts it into actual digital art. The before/after gap is wild. I scribbled something that looked like a toddler drew a cat and it came out looking like stylised concept art. Works better than I expected it to.

Style Sync
Snap a photo of your outfit and it generates 4 matching wallpapers based on the colours and vibe. Sounds gimmicky but the colour matching is surprisingly accurate. I've actually been using one of the outputs as my home screen wallpaper for two weeks now.

Text to Sticker
Custom stickers straight from a text prompt. If you're the type who texts a lot, this is genuinely fun. Described an inside joke, got a usable sticker in under 10 seconds. Works well for WhatsApp.

Avatar
Take a selfie and it builds an AI avatar you can use for profiles, contact photos, whatever. Decent range of styles. Nothing groundbreaking but it works cleanly and doesn't look uncanny.

Acc to me the best thing is the fact that it doesnt require internet and nothing gets uploaded anywhere. Most of the other brands are quietly routing this stuff to the cloud.
Has anyone else has been using Image Studio or found prompts that work particularly well?

Took me a while to come around to this but after using the Razr as my daily for a few months, I genuinely can't go back to a regular slab for work stuff. The way Android has evolved on foldables lately is a different experience altogether.
The taskbar is the thing nobody talks about enough. Having persistent app shortcuts at the bottom while you're working means you're not constantly jumping in and out of the app drawer. It feels closer to a laptop workflow than a phone workflow and that's not something I expected to be saying about a foldable.
Split screen is where it really clicks though. I've been running Google Maps and WhatsApp side by side for travel planning, YouTube and notes for when I'm watching something I want to reference later, and email alongside a doc when I need to draft replies with context open. None of this is new on paper but the Razr's display gives you enough real estate that it doesn't feel cramped. On a regular phone split screen is a compromise. Here it actually makes sense.
The thing is, most people still think of foldables as a novelty. A conversation starter. But the taskbar and split screen workflows have genuinely changed how I use my phone during the day. It's less about the fold being cool and more about the extra screen making you faster.
If you're someone who does a lot of switching between apps for work, the jump is worth it. Curious if others here have settled into a split screen combo that works well for them. Android foldables are becoming productivity machines.

genuinely asking because i feel like every time someone brings up mid-range cameras under 30k the conversation goes straight to Samsung, Google, or whatever iQOO launched last month.
the Edge 70 Fusion has a Sony LYTIA 710 sensor. that's not a budget sensor. the processing is clean, it doesn't over-sharpen, and the low-light output is more consistent than a lot of phones at this price that get way more camera coverage.
the display also plays into this. 144hz AMOLED with that brightness ceiling means the viewfinder actually looks good, which sounds minor but matters when you're framing shots.
and at around 27k you're not compromising on the screen to pay for the camera or vice versa. the hardware budget feels like it was distributed sensibly rather than just dumping everything into one spec to win a headline.
i think part of the problem is motorola doesn't market the camera aggressively. no cinematic mode branding, no 200MP headline number. just a sensor that quietly does its job.
would be curious if anyone else has actually tested it properly or if it's just getting ignored.

Just went through IDC's Q1 2026 India smartphone report and the numbers are a bit contradictory at first glance.
Shipments dropped 4.1% YoY to 31 million units, so fewer phones are being sold. But the average selling price hit US$302, up 10.4% YoY, apparently a record high. And despite the volume dip, overall market value still grew 5.8%. So the market is shrinking but becoming more valuable at the same time.
What's also interesting is the channel shift happening quietly in the background. Offline retail is at 62% share, up from 58%, while online has dropped from 42% to 38%. That's a pretty notable swing in just a year. Either consumers are going back to stores to try before they buy at higher price points, or online discounting isn't pulling people in the way it used to.
On the brand side, vivo holds the top spot, followed by Samsung, OPPO, Apple, and Motorola as a new entrant in the top 5. Apple cracking the top 4 in a market this price-sensitive says a lot about how premiumisation is actually playing out here, not just as a talking point.
Feels like India is slowly moving from a volume game to a value game. The days of budget phones driving everything might genuinely be fading.
Curious if others are noticing this on the ground, are people around you spending more on phones than they used to?