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Multiple Reviewers Facing Broken Galaxy Fold Devices After Just Days of Use
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People need to read the article to the end. It seems like the reviewers didn't read instructions and removed the protective film that SHOULDN'T be removed.
I'm an Apple fan, but it's still great to see innovations and hope that they do well.
I'm an Apple fan, but it's still great to see innovations and hope that they do well.
As we all know, Apple sells products, while Samsung sells lab units, as always.
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Then finish reading it
"Not all of the reviewers with broken units removed the plastic film"
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Then finish reading it
"Not all of the reviewers with broken units removed the plastic film"
Amazing. This thing is a piece of junk. It was obvious from the first keynote. Cheap hardware, creased screen, software looks extremely unpolished, front screen is barely usable, tiny tablet with no apps, doesn’t fit in your pocket because it’s so tall and thick, and now this. I wouldn’t be surprised if they halted the release. Apple clearly made the right choice, the tech isn’t ready. Where’s @john123? Still feel good about our bet? Haha.
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Every sane person laughed at the folding phones, in the state they're currently in. On both sides of Apple & Android.
They should be paying people to beta test these freakin things, not charge $2k.
Can you imagine how this plastic display will react in winter at sub-zero temperature ! !! ...
ha! ha !!
ha! ha !!
I always wondered how a folding screen would avoid deforming and breaking eventually due to repeated folding of what is basically a complicated, layered plastic and silicon sandwich. Turns out it doesn't.
Also, due to it being foldable, it can't be made out of glass, which means it will get scratched up within weeks. For something this expensive that's kind of an issue. Although it sounds nice in theory to be able to double your screen size when needed, I'm not sure how this idea was ever going to work out in practice.
Also, due to it being foldable, it can't be made out of glass, which means it will get scratched up within weeks. For something this expensive that's kind of an issue. Although it sounds nice in theory to be able to double your screen size when needed, I'm not sure how this idea was ever going to work out in practice.
Indeed, that could be their advertising slogan on this one. Is it incredible forward thinking for Samsung to have set the bar for themselves so low?
Sorry but that doesn’t make any sense. Prototypes of boundary pushing technology is being made all the time by many companies. That doesn’t mean it is ready as a consumer product just yet, especially when he admits that “almost nobody should actually buy it”.
I watched a youtube review of this thing and I'm still left scratching my head wondering who'd actually want this phone. Folded up it's the size of 2 phones put together. I don't get who'd want to carry this thing daily. Now if they could make a normal sized phone and have just the screen itself foldable that'd be an amazing feat.
MacRumors is normally on the role with Apple news, they're going to let this article sit at the top until tomorrow to take some of that negative press off Apple. I see you MacRumors, it's all good lol.
Haha, this is just laughable and what you get when you rush out technology that is not ready for mainstream consumption.
This is really blowing up in Samsungs face, haha. See what I did there?
This is really blowing up in Samsungs face, haha. See what I did there?
... and it’s actually a good product. I know which I prefer.
What sort of bugs and crashes are you having. I don't have a Xs Max, so I'm interested in what privilege you're having. My Xr has been flawless but I am considering the Xs and Max (and would pass this Xr on to my teenager).
We have a pretty good idea how many are out there. Samsung has obviously given certain publications/tech sites/blogs an early access unit to review. Everyone was in such a rush to be first with any actual usage time with the Galaxy Fold that we saw many sites posting up a quick "hands-on" with very little information other than to brag "hey we got one, this is what it looks like, and we'll update when we've used it further". All the usual suspects have a device and have chimed in on it. A quick search will bring up many reviews/first impressions which can be easily counted. I doubt there's more than 100 of these worldwide (and maybe even less than 50). Unless there are a large number of reviewers who got one, but have kept silent until they're finished their comprehensive review (and really, what site these days would keep a secret about having a brand-new device with a new folding screen and let other sites get the jump on them)?
This is far different than, say, the iPhone 6 and bendgate where we had literally millions of devices in use by consumers and a few people with bent devices. Imagine if the first week after the iPhone 6 launched that 4 of the early-access reviewers already had a major physical defect? It would be the end of the world.
It comes down to the ratio of defective devices vs how many are in use. And I'd say 4 defective devices out of 100 is nothing short of a disaster.
For reference, the initial Note 7 "overheating" issue started out as 1 in 40,000 devices. As more devices caught fire the ratio dropped down to 1 in 10,000 which was bad enough for Samsung to issue a full recall and cease production. So yeah, 4 devices so far out of a very small number of review units is pretty bad.
Relatively speaking, kind of looks widespread. Impossible to know how many review units went out, but we can figure low numbers. 50-100 maybe. even if it is five times that, three in two days is bad quality control.
This this happened with an Apple product, Apple would claim you dropped it or used it wrong in some way.
Sure and ok, but don’t release an incomplete, fragile, easily damaged, beta prototype to the public and stand on your soapbox and declare the next tech innovation is here.
This product is so far from being ready, and quite frankly has gimmicky written all over it, that it deserves every bit of criticism from reviewers and the public alike.
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