Samsung Still Has No Idea When the Galaxy Fold Will Launch

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joueboy said:
ROFL! Antenna Gate, Bend Gate, Butterfly Keyboard, Touch Disease, iOS slowing down, iPhone 7, MacBooks dying display, AirPower and the list goes on... What a short term memory you have lad...
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Yup sure.
That still nothing compared to Samsung.
Exploding phones, exploding washing machines, chemical accidents.... stuff that actually harms the same consumers that buy thier products.

Bet anyone of them would have loved a phone with touch disease or Antenna gate instead.
Rational people.

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Samsung actually handpicks each reviewer, before they canceled it.
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Dharma-P said:
At least they're trying to innovate, unlike Apple shoving down the same stuff down our throats for the past few years and making us pay premium.
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I'm still rocking an iphone 6 and 8. they do what I need them to do. To this day, NOBODY at Apple has come to my home, and put a gun to my head and forced me to pay their prices. By the way, the two VW's I have run just fine as well. Nobody at BMW or Mercedes has ever forced me to buy their cars either.
 
If Apple did this is would be breaking news on CNN and on the front page of the Washington Post and all my non-techie friends would be talking about it. Samsung does it and it pops up on a couple tech blogs.
 
Dharma-P said:
At least they're trying to innovate, unlike Apple shoving down the same stuff down our throats for the past few years and making us pay premium.
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They rushed a product that was not ready for the public just so they can be the first! Typical Samsung philosophy! And spare me the BS of innovation, please! Tow brick smartphones sandwiched on the top of each other connected by a flimsy plastic screen? On top of that, it took them a decade? How embarrassing! You can have that sort of innovation, and No, that ain't the future. People are gonna remember this as a joke!
 
Dharma-P said:
At least they're trying to innovate, unlike Apple shoving down the same stuff down our throats for the past few years and making us pay premium.
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agree, Face ID is fad, not an innovation.
it's better to release phones that explode than releasing phones that don't have longer battery life.
It's better to take pre orders for a product that has major design issues than to wait till tech is ready for customers.
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ouimetnick said:
I’m surprised Samsung didn’t learn from the Galaxy Note 7’s fiasco. Hope they (and Tim Apple) only announce finished products going forward (AirPower).
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AirPower was a fiasco, but better than Fold though, taking orders for something that's not ready is bad.
Apple generally doesn't anounce till the product is ready, announcing AirPower was so un apple.
 
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joueboy said:
ROFL! Antenna Gate, Bend Gate, Butterfly Keyboard, Touch Disease, iOS slowing down, iPhone 7, MacBooks dying display, AirPower and the list goes on... What a short term memory you have lad...
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That's why i stated "in this magnitude", just imagine what would happen if Apple had this happen to the first flagship iPhone X.
 
kevinbeared said:
Was it worth to rush and put out this ****** unfinished product just to say "we were first.." i don't think so.

Somebody at the top must be preparing a powerpoint to explain his decision but it will not be enough lol..
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First to flop. Can we start the “flopgate” chant yet. Lol
 
dazzer21-2 said:
Isn't that what Samsung have just done? We don't want to see this stuff until it's COMPLETELY ready!
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Actually, they were going to release it as is, which is why they sent out a bunch of review units to media personalities once the public launch was imminent.

Then, the problems with the review units popped up all over the place. It was only until after that did they decide to postpone its release.

Samsung is even cancelling pre-orders, unless you specifically tell them not to.

So, don’t kid yourself ... this was a product that was originally intended to launch in its current state.

FWIW, the Huawei Mate X and Motorola Razr 2019 are in a much better state than the Samsung Galaxy Fold.
 
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Dharma-P said:
At least they're trying to innovate, unlike Apple shoving down the same stuff down our throats for the past few years and making us pay premium.
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Yeah, sure if you can call releasing phones that keep blowing up and phones that end up broken after a few folds and debris getting inside because of poor design and poor build quality.
On top of releasing phones that 99% of the time are just rip off of other companies ideas.
 
Intellectua1 said:
I see a good amount of them but I feel most people buy them because its the new "it" thing to have, not because it's a revolutionary product, game changing, or life altering, like the guy I originally replied to said.
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In other words, you know very little about the product, and just assume that people buy them for marketing reasons.

To put the biggest benefits in one place for you so that you do not have to do any research on your own:
  1. W1 (and now H1) chip allows super fast and easy paring - fixing one of Bluetooth’s most persistent problems.
  2. iCloud device linking makes it really easy to switch among all my iOS and macOS devices.
  3. Bluetooth linked battery case lets one know the status of the batteries in each AirPod and in the case.
  4. In-ear sensor to let it know that it should connect. No need to turn it on, it happens automatically.
  5. Auto switching from mono-stereo-mono as one moves from having one AirPod in to having two (and back).
  6. Custom wireless protocol to enable low latency transmission between the AirPods for stereo.
  7. (For the new AirPods): support for always on “Hey Siri” detection, using the custom H1 chip (hardware wake word meaning that it cannot be changed to OK Google for your use).

How I came to the "it's just the new it product" conclusion is theguy who replied before you and a lot of other comments I've read always say the sound quality isn't that great, no noise cancellation etc. Seems like people are only buying these because they're Apple and compromising a lot with this purchase.
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Yep, people did not do a good enough job explaining all the benefits to you, so it makes sense that they must only like them for reasons of status or because they have an Apple Logo on them. Got it.
 
Suttree said:
For example, Apple is revamping Reminders for iOS 13. Who uses Reminders??? You know what’s important? Custom icons. Custom fonts. I wanna use Comic Sans as my font but Apple be lame.
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Thank goodness apple doesn’t come to you for product design, I’ve never seen a custom font on android and thought “gee that’s cool”, it’s always been more like “they’re using papyrus? either this person has no ****ing taste, or their phone manufacturer doesn’t. I would gouge my eyes out with a fork if I had to look at that all day”
 
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Some people seem to have forgotten the very obvious.

Apple has not been a display innovator for one very obvious reason--they don't make displays. Apple buys displays from Samsung.

So of course display innovation has always happened at Samsung first. Heck, "first" isn't even the right word for it, because Apple isn't making displays at all...so it's not like they are going to be second or third or anything.

What are these people expecting, that Samsung will favor their competitor's phone display advancement before their own? Or that all this time Apple has been an innovative display maker in secret, and any day now we'll see the result?
 
Suttree said:
I stand with Samsung. They put in the effort. 3D TV, curved displays, Air View, Smart Scroll. Tremendous innovation.

What do we get from Apple? 3D Touch. APFS. Swift. Mission Control. Really, Apple?

Apple fails because they don’t attempt bling. They don’t attempt novelty. Samsung wins because they feed the need for novelty. Throw it out there and see what sticks. It’s about COOL. They GET it. Apple used to be cool but they lame now. 99.9% of people don’t use or need technology as “tools.”

For example, Apple is revamping Reminders for iOS 13. Who uses Reminders??? You know what’s important? Custom icons. Custom fonts.
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Based on the above it's clear why you want to use Comic:
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I wanna use Comic Sans as my font but Apple be lame.
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Dharma-P said:
A folding display in a form factor like that requires a lot of innovation.
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The question is, is it really innovative and implemented in a genuinely good way?

Because for over 20 years there are openable phones (something like Motorola Razr style). Now just imagine the same mechanism would be applied except horizontally, magnets would click it into a place, displays on each side would connect into one. No folding screen needed, simple, tested.

Sorry, I know my description may not be easy to understand.
 
Alan Wynn said:
In other words, you know very little about the product, and just assume that people buy them for marketing reasons.

To put the biggest benefits in one place for you so that you do not have to do any research on your own:
  1. W1 (and now H1) chip allows super fast and easy paring - fixing one of Bluetooth’s most persistent problems.
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Disagree with this. Yes AirPods make connections fast, but bluetooth can automatically remember and connect to multiple sources simultaneously anyway, and switch automatically based on which source is playing.

There is no bluetooth pairing problem, and certainly not in products that cost a fraction of what AirPods do.

I have both AirPods 2 and Bose Soundsport BTW.
 
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