My worry too since one battery is covered by 2 displays pane.
Adequate cooling ? Long term affect on the displays?
Huawei Mate X is a better implementation .
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Samsung Developing Additional Folding Smartphones, May Offer Free Display Replacements for Alleged Crease Defect in Current Model
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My worry too since one battery is covered by 2 displays pane.
Adequate cooling ? Long term affect on the displays?
Huawei Mate X is a better implementation .
I’ll get back to you in 3 years when the Samsung note fold plus is announced. Lol.
How do you think that happens without some buyers willing to be on the bleeding edge of technology?
But some people will, and won’t think twice about it.
I’m just not sure what problem it solves. It’s too much of a compromise as a phone and a tablet, and I don’t see this solving the problem of rising device prices. And who wants to pay near $2000 on a product that even the company that made it admits might not be the future?
But why stop on 12.9 inches only?
All I want, is to unfold it to 45 inches. Is it so much to ask?
Woz said it first. I just repeated it because he’s right.
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You aren’t the measuring stick.
Also, a foldable phone that works well and makes sense is the key.
With enough force, I can fold my iPhone X. Doesn’t mean it works.
So why are you the measuring stick?
Samsung is trying to see what works. This is obviously a beta. An expensive beta, but still a beta - and they have admitted that.
Looks like they're going to give their users different form factors and see what works. Nothing wrong with that. Choice is good.
Sorry, but if you know your product has defects, like creases after a couple of folds, that probably means it's not ready for market...
I’m not.
You’re looking at the Goliath that is Apple and that the strategy has worked and they continue to satisfy customers in an industry with tons of choices.
Crap erodes your brand. Samsung throws out crap and sees if it sticks, eroding their image of quality. Apple isn’t going to put their logo on something that is CLEARLY not ready.
Otherwise known as throwing everything at the wall as seeing what sticks.
Folding anything that isn't silk or microweave fibre will leave a crease. Physics 101.
If you have to admit fault for a hardware defect BEFORE the product is even released, you’ve clearly failed.
Or if you never admit it, you’re Apple
I’ll believe this crease issues exists once actual users have experienced it, not by claims that ‘someone’ has apparently said this and that.. which is literally all this story bios down to at present. No proof or confirmation by Samsung what so ever in this report.
A foldable device has to do something more than just be foldable.
If it has a tablet's weight and double the bulk of a typical phone, making it foldable serves little purpose as the problem of portability will still exist and be added to by issues of fragility and creasing and rigidity.
Until you have a foldable device that is as thin and light and rigid and robust as current phones, foldable screens bring nothing to the table other than problems.
If it has a tablet's weight and double the bulk of a typical phone, making it foldable serves little purpose as the problem of portability will still exist and be added to by issues of fragility and creasing and rigidity.
Until you have a foldable device that is as thin and light and rigid and robust as current phones, foldable screens bring nothing to the table other than problems.
I'm super excited on getting my hands on a foldable smartphone. I do watch and use my smartphone more than a laptop or PC (for private use) and I could really use that extra screen when traveling or sitting inside a train, while going to work. Watching Netflix and YouTube on a bigger screen, and when you're done you can fold it again and it easily fits inside your pockets. With twice the screen estate. Is something that I absolutely would like.
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Yeah while Samsung is working at creating a new category or smartphones Apple has these kind of problems:
At this point expectations from Apple in general have to be lowered significantly.
Let's hope they don't at least screw up iOS 13, like they did with iOS 11.
At this point expectations from Apple in general have to be lowered significantly.
Let's hope they don't at least screw up iOS 13, like they did with iOS 11.
My thoughts exactly. This should be done before release.
1. Samsung absolutely rushed this to the market. Remember, it was not them that showed the first concepts.
2. Samsung openly offering replacement if **** goes south? Take note Apple.
2. Samsung openly offering replacement if **** goes south? Take note Apple.
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