Multiple Reviewers Facing Broken Galaxy Fold Devices After Just Days of Use

[r2d3]

 

[pika2000]

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Oh my, that’s hilarious

 

[The Game 161]

Wow, how special.

I'll tell you what, you save up your $2,000 and buy your Samsung fold. The perfect mug.

Don't think any apple user should call anybody else a mug given how much apple rip apple customers off with their prices and minor upgrades each year..

 

[The Game 161]

Gimmick. Not ready for mass production/consumption. When you’re selling a phone that costs close to 2 grand (more than a decent laptop) you send your best quality units to the tech media for review, not prototypes or pre production units. Unless you indicate the units are as such.

If the protective film was not supposed to be removed, it should have been abundantly clear to the end user. Who reads instructions when unboxing a new tech toy? Not saying it’s right, but the human interaction IS part of the engineering process.

Flop bringing something genuinely useful to market. People might understand. Hey, they tried something new, blah blah blah.

Bring the tech equivalent of the rainbow tail on a My Little Pony, make a galactic failure of it, and expect to get skewered in the media. This whole folding phone thing is totally pointless. To make a mess of it is just 10 times worse.

I mean, shiet. Even the Newton tried to do something useful and was a tech flop. This is just a folding phone with an easily busted screen.

Samsung should stick to what it’s at least adequate at. Cloning Apple. They stink on ice at doing new things...

Cloning apple? Lol now I've heard it all...

 

[calstanford]

Huawei? Come on - the company that will spy on every keystroke you produce on their devices. Not that it matters much, as Google does the same (just go to activity.google.com). With Huawei, all your private data doesn't only go to some US servers that grant access to every idiot who wants to see it, but it also goes to China, where government officials play memory cards with your dick pics.

Never read dumber and more racist stuff on here. You should be ashamed of yourself.

 

[Valkyre]

Don't think any apple user should call anybody else a mug given how much apple rip apple customers off with their prices and minor upgrades each year..

I dont think Apple ever charged a 1000$ for a single feature (fold). Much less one that breaks after 2 days...

At the very least it is hypocritical for android users to act as if the 1K 2K 3K even 4K android phones somehow justify their prices.... I only wish I could live in a parrallel universe were apple announced the Samsung fold at that price, just to witness the backlash about the price from the same android folk who now have nothing but praise for that 1000$ feature. Hypocrisy 101.

 

[FFR]

Samsung haven’t shipped the device yet so they still have time to pull it it they are indeed defective. It’s only in the hands of reviewers. AirPower was potentially dangerous if it was overheating.
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No AirPower was not an ordinary charger, however the galaxy fold is also not an ordinary smartphone.

They are both failure the only difference is Samsung is shipping their failure, and you called that courage, peculiar.

 

[shplock]

I don't think you know what widespread means.

With respect neither do you. The device is not on general sale so therefore is not widespread.

 

[I7guy]

Samsung is trying to revolutionise the industry like how Jobs did with the iPhone (Antennagate) and they are bound to run into some hitches along the way. It’s after all a unique one of a kind product. Apple is trying to shave off costs and reduce product quality to increase margins. Big difference.

Being second out of the gate is not a revolution but an evolution. Big difference. Doesn’t excuse this, but please apply your own bias to this.

 

[norbinhouston]

Samsung is trying to revolutionise the industry like how Jobs did with the iPhone (Antennagate) and they are bound to run into some hitches along the way. It’s after all a unique one of a kind product. Apple is trying to shave off costs and reduce product quality to increase margins. Big difference.

All metal construction, gorilla glass on both sides, the worlds most powerful mobile processor, security chip, secure face detection. lol, sure sounds like Apple is shaving corners and reducing quality. lol at haters.

 

[FFR]

Gimmick. Not ready for mass production/consumption. When you’re selling a phone that costs close to 2 grand (more than a decent laptop) you send your best quality units to the tech media for review, not prototypes or pre production units. Unless you indicate the units are as such.

If the protective film was not supposed to be removed, it should have been abundantly clear to the end user. Who reads instructions when unboxing a new tech toy? Not saying it’s right, but the human interaction IS part of the engineering process.

Flop bringing something genuinely useful to market. People might understand. Hey, they tried something new, blah blah blah.

Bring the tech equivalent of the rainbow tail on a My Little Pony, make a galactic failure of it, and expect to get skewered in the media. This whole folding phone thing is totally pointless. To make a mess of it is just 10 times worse.

I mean, shiet. Even the Newton tried to do something useful and was a tech flop. This is just a folding phone with an easily busted screen.

Samsung should stick to what it’s at least adequate at. Cloning Apple. They stink on ice at doing new things...

Talking about Samsung and ice.

 

[KevAMS01]

“Hard to know if this is widespread.”

hah! It’s not. Because the DEVICE isn’t widespread.

I believe the problem stems more from the repeated transition between half-spread and widespread

 

[jdclifford]

They're "folding" it the wrong way! Right Steve?

 

[drzen]

Gives an entirely new meaning to "move fast and break things"...

 

[KevAMS01]

“Hard to know if this is widespread.”

hah! It’s not. Because the DEVICE isn’t widespread.

The problem seems to stem from the repeated transition between half-spread and widespread

 

[1bcoolrob]

Lot of people don't know this But that's NOT a OLED screen It's just a cheap LCD screen

 

[FFR]

Things are not getting better for this device, sales will defiantly be affected now.

 

[kis]

So you know how many Samsung sold and how many have a defect from what i understand. Right?

There are a few device broken (we don't even know the reason) but we don't know how many where sold! So you can't make an idea based on a few posts!

The problem is that there’s no way Samsung will fix those for free unless you have their device insurance - which doesn’t exist outside the US.

 

[kis]

One would expect that Samsung be held to the same standards as Apple, if not stricter, given how so many “experts” here claim that Samsung is a leader in hardware and innovation.

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Well, they’re definitely the leaders in hardware, and to some extent in innovation too (at least it’s definitely not Apple).

But I agree, they should be held to the same standards. Which means, when they mess up, they deserve to be bashed. And when Apple messes up, they deserve to bashed as well. Especially the latter isn’t happening here though.

 

[antonis]

Poor samsung, they can't even say that "it affects a small number of users" as this phrase is patented by Apple™.

 

[Shanghaichica]

They are both failure the only difference is Samsung is shipping their failure, and you called that courage, peculiar.

Well hopefully they won’t ship it. There is still time. Is they do ship it and it doesn’t work then they only have themselves to blame.
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AirPower wasn't a charger at all. It never existed. It was an interesting idea that Apple couldn't make work.

People talk as if Apple had warehouses full of them but decided not to ship. They had a photoshop and some prototypes, and nothing more.

Let’s give Apple the benefit of the doubt here. I’m sure they had something working in the lab they probably couldn’t scale it up for mass production.

 

[virtualruffy]

Another colossal SumDung failure. Yay. SumDung - the black hole in your galaxy.

 

[FFR]

Well hopefully they won’t ship it. There is still time. Is they do ship it and it doesn’t work then they only have themselves to blame.

That’s hilarious, who else do they have to blame for theirs failures.

You do realize that whatever happens next, this will impact sales for Samsung other devices going forward.

They are having issues with the 5g s10 as well.

Galaxy fold won’t fold, and galaxy s10 5g doesn’t 5g.

Not a good year for Samsung

 

[freddiebarnes]

What’s the point of a folding phone? It seems stupid to me. I figured something would go wrong with the screens if they’re constantly folding open and close. If you want a foldable phone. Buy a flip phone. They’ve been around for like 20 years now and work fine.

 

[cmaier]

What’s the point of a folding phone? It seems stupid to me. I figured something would go wrong with the screens if they’re constantly folding open and close. If you want a foldable phone. Buy a flip phone. They’ve been around for like 20 years now and work fine.

Agreed. What’s needed is a pocketable tablet. But this thing is too small to be a good tablet and too big to be pocketable when folded.