# A new experience still has to be driven by a new hardware form.

- Date: 2026.09.09
- Locale: en
- Page: https://cv.rocorgi.wang/writings/new-hardware-new-experience
- Author: Long Wang (汪龙, rocorgi)



A new experience still has to be driven by a new hardware form.

The new experience a folding screen brings is the fold. Along the fold: open, close, switch. Every one of those points is a place to create a “new experience” someone remembers. Apple saw that, and did it again.

The room to imagine here is huge.

![A closed folding phone. The lock screen is desert and mountains.](/writings/new-hardware-new-experience/01.jpg)

[A closed folding phone. The lock screen is desert and mountains.](/writings/new-hardware-new-experience/01.mp4)

![A hand holding the folding phone open, with weather, a map, and a grid of icons.](/writings/new-hardware-new-experience/02.jpg)

[A hand holding the folding phone open, with weather, a map, and a grid of icons.](/writings/new-hardware-new-experience/02.mp4)

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