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Multiple Reviewers Facing Broken Galaxy Fold Devices After Just Days of Use
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So maybe this can warrant the legendary “bendgate” tag?
You'll notice how most reviewers see it as the future. Bumps along the way are par for the course for a new type of product.
How can you remove a protective layer that is not supposed to be removed? Its would be like a removable lacquering on the car.?!
This will make for a huge Galaxy Note 7-like disaster for Samsung
This will make for a huge Galaxy Note 7-like disaster for Samsung
Is this #foldgate, #yourefoldingitwrong, or #foldyouso?
Expecting the usual it's a first gen product excuses. Yet no one holds back on Apple first gen products from critiquing harshly.
Don't remember either of those causing a product to fail in mere days of use. Poor design choices and inconvenient no one will deny. but far far different scenario than breaking a $2,000 device.
Expecting the usual it's a first gen product excuses. Yet no one holds back on Apple first gen products from critiquing harshly.
This gets exempt?
Don't remember either of those causing a product to fail in mere days of use. Poor design choices and inconvenient no one will deny. but far far different scenario than breaking a $2,000 device.
This gets exempt?
Does that mouse mouse? Does that pencil pencil? What does the Galaxy Fold do?
For extra yucks, compare how the media (and fans) will treat this compared to MBP keyboards...
When Samsung closes a door, they open a window..
They already learnt their lesson about the exploding batteries heir just shifting to something else now.... It is Gen. 1... but even a phone should be tested before it's released..
We gotta compare it to something else busted, otherwise it wouldn't be much of a fair rant
They already learnt their lesson about the exploding batteries heir just shifting to something else now.... It is Gen. 1... but even a phone should be tested before it's released..
We gotta compare it to something else busted, otherwise it wouldn't be much of a fair rant
Samsung this week provided reviewers with Galaxy Fold devices for some hands-on time, and it appears the folding smartphone may be suffering from some serious flaws. Three of the reviewers who received a Galaxy Fold have already experienced failures, all of which focus on the display.
The Verge's Dieter Bohn says that his Galaxy Fold device broke after a random bulge appeared on the display, perhaps from a piece of debris that had gotten into the hinge. The debris, or whatever the bulge was, pressed into the display hard enough to break it.
Bohn says that he did not mistreat the phone, doing "normal phone stuff" like putting it in a pocket and opening and closing the hinge.Similarly, CNBC's Steve Kovach shared a video of his review unit displaying a flickering, failing screen after just a single day of use.
Broken Galaxy Fold OLED display via The Verge
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman also ran into a catastrophic display failure. His Galaxy Fold is broken and unusable, appearing to feature some of the same screen failures as Kovach's unit.
In Gurman's case, he says that there was a protective layer on the screen that is not supposed to be removed, but this was not communicated to him. He took it off, which may have contributed to the problem. Well-known YouTuber Marques Brownlee says that he did the same thing because there was no warning in the box.
Not all of the reviewers with broken units removed the plastic film, however, so there are clearly multiple issues impacting the Galaxy Fold. Three broken review units that failed within a day or two does not bode well for the device at all. It's not known if reviewers received a bad batch of the device or if units going out to customers will experience the same issues, but anyone considering a purchase should be aware of these failures.
Samsung's Galaxy Fold costs a whopping $1,980, which is a sensationally high price even for a device that works. Right now, Samsung is accepting pre-orders for the Galaxy Fold on carrier sites, and the first retail units are expected to be available to customers on April 26.
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Well **** I already ordered one fingers crossed
Small group of reviewers facing broken models? Wow the failure rate might be high.
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Puts “a thousand no’s for every yes” in context.
Imagine if apple had released AirPower and it had this level of defect.
Imagine if apple had released AirPower and it had this level of defect.
This gets exempt?
This shows you don't know that the pictured method is only for the charge while not having the pencil charger at hand - moment
The device already looks broken before it breaks.
And you do realize those are the ONLY units in hand currently right? That's a pretty large defect rate then if that many are broken out of the few they shipped to reviewers so far.
You know, considering you just dropped $2,000 and its broken in 1-2 days.
