To use Google Phone Calling Card for an iPhone-like calling screen, update the Google Phone app to v188 or later, then go to Settings > Calling Card, pick a contact, and customize with full-screen ...
To address how Phone by Google recently gained a landscape calling screen, the dialer app is now offering a setting to “Keep portrait mode on calls.” Update 1/20/26: This setting is back as of beta ...
When the first foldable phones came along, they seemed like a cool evolution of the traditional smartphone form factor and, if they got smaller and cheaper, like something people might actually want.