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Latest Foldable Smartphones Experiencing Failures and Durability Issues
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Built to fail on purpose. Noone really wants this product and it will be an extremely long time before a material can be developed that is both hard and soft at the same time both to avoid scratches and to bend without distortion hundreds of thousands of times. Easier to engineer a two screen phone that perfectly or imperfectly aligns the screens if anyone cares for the form factor.
I need a foldable smart phone. Said nobody ever....
I disagree. How can you sell a phone for $1400 that breaks in a week. Or worse, while in transit to your house after ordering online. I can accept software issues, because of the billions of software and setting combinations possible, but any extensive testing should have brought up these failures.
I believe they knew and released it anyway.
And no one has yet figured out why we need this other than tech writers and enthusiasts are bored.
Issues that appear immediately from doing the very thing they are hyped up to do, “fold”, is unacceptable. Period!
They've actually had bendy displays for many years now... like over a decade. Apple buys their displays (sometimes from Samsung). Samsung actually manufactures them.
Meanwhile Apple sits back watching Samsung, Huawei, and Moto experiment on their customers' dimes. Apple knows full well the pitfalls of this technology but is unwilling to subject their customers to their experiments. When these issues are worked out (if even possible, and I kinda doubt it) Apple may look further into releasing a product. The same goes for the 5G hype. Customers who plunked down big bucks for a 5G phone aren't getting their money's worth and won't for at least another year or so.
It’s early tech so I suppose we shouldn’t be that surprised. But I think it’s still amazing that we’ve even come this far with it. Really excited to see what the next 3 years of this form factor brings.
it adds a lot, You just don’t wanna see it.
The flip adds a screen protection when closed and a stand mechanism the fold adds a big screen
Has anyone, anywhere actually ever said, “Gee, I wish I had a foldable phone?” Incomprehensible gimmickry.
Drug dealers are not happy with these "flip phones". Saul Goodman doesn't even need to break it after each call 😂
Apple couldn’t release a 5G phone until they patched things up with Qualcomm. Also don’t make displays. They need to sit back and wait for the likes of Samsung to perfect foldable displays so they can then buy said displays from Samsung.
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Apple buy all of their OLED displays from Samsung and all of their displays have been manufactured by other companies. Apple don’t make displays.
I had an iPhone that had a broken lighting port right out of the box. Stuff happens.
Samsung has a limited production of these and continues to offer special repair options and assistance for its foldables.
Samsung’s foldables right now are not a brand that would appeal to cautious consumers carefully watching the change from their sofa cushions. They are putting stuff on the bleeding edge and see who bites. There are always enough crazy technology geeks who do. And that’s who they’re marketing it to, social media influencers with some money to burn on stuff like this and need something to hype.
This is not a phone for mom or grandma. Which is why I’m not buying it. That phone would not survive a week with me. I’m a mom. I break shtuff. The kids break shtuff. Samsung knows that. They aren’t marketing it to me.
They need to test these phones by sending them to a preschool and letting a couple dozen toddlers at them for about a week.
Really dumb idea. Yes flexible screens have a use case, but smartphones are not it.
if you want a more pocketable phone, buy a smaller one. I hear Apple has a smaller one coming later this year.
You can never have ONE tool be THE best tool for everything, you will always need the best solution for the particular use case. I don’t think these things solve any particular use case very well.
if you want a more pocketable phone, buy a smaller one. I hear Apple has a smaller one coming later this year.
You can never have ONE tool be THE best tool for everything, you will always need the best solution for the particular use case. I don’t think these things solve any particular use case very well.
We don't want innovation, we want improvement. What these companies are doing is innovation, but it doesn't produce a product that is any improvement to what exist. If you take price and quality into consideration, it sees an iPhone 8 or 8+, together with an iPad Mini, is much better value for money.
Basically, these companies are using their customers as testers for new tech. High price, limited production, small economic risk. If it does not work, drop it off, if it works, continue pushing with more agresive pricing.
I respect a company that is diligent and undertakes a comprehensive R&D before deploying a product to the market in order to gurantee a maximum satisfaction rate to its customers.
Trying is not enough.