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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Pedantic return: it has 3 screens with 2 connecting hinges, it is therefore trifold.

trifold in American English (ˈtraiˌfould) adjective

  1. triple; threefold
  2. having three parts a trifold screen
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

And two fold is how many screens ?

[–] Skoobie 6 points 1 week ago

2, with 1 hinge. It's like a normal phone but the screen number increased twofold.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Bifold means something that folds into two parts. Consider the bifold wallet or bifold door.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How can something fold into one part then ?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I guess the same way you slice something into one piece. Bisect is one less than trisect, so what's one less than bisect?

Maybe the problem is that the phone is rectangular. I bet they could do it with a polygon with just two fewer sides. ;)