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Testing Samsung's New $1,380 Galaxy Z Flip Foldable Smartphone
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Well if you buy a laptop you would expect the keyboard to work. Some people don’t have working keyboards on their macs.
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What is their joke of face ID rip off?
Granted Face ID is better than any form of face unlock Samsung have ever had, however facial recognition first debuted on android in 2012. Long before Face ID and iris scanning on the note 7 came out a full year before Face ID on the iPhone X.
Apple might have the best implementation of facial recognition but they didn’t invent it.
One could argue they implemented the first smartphone facial recognition that only recognises actual faces
This is yet another failed answer to a question no one is asking. Exactly what does this provide over a normal smartphone format, other than folding into a package that is twice as thick, desperately delicate, and completely useless in the folded configuration?
In 2 years, when apple perfects the hinge and then everyone acts like they invented the clamshell phone, I'll buy one. XD Maybe by then it'll be called the iPhone 13 Pro Max Fold
I had a few clamshell phones before getting a smartphone. They may be fatter, but they're a lot shorter, which I find a lot less annoying in my pocket. They're also easier to answer calls and hang up on, if the phone isn't already in your hands and being used. You can just reach for it and pop it open. Bam. Answered call.
That said, I would be perfectly happy with a clamshell smart phone that had 2 thin-bezeled screens. I think I'd even prefer that, from a durability standpoint.
I had a few clamshell phones before getting a smartphone. They may be fatter, but they're a lot shorter, which I find a lot less annoying in my pocket. They're also easier to answer calls and hang up on, if the phone isn't already in your hands and being used. You can just reach for it and pop it open. Bam. Answered call.
That said, I would be perfectly happy with a clamshell smart phone that had 2 thin-bezeled screens. I think I'd even prefer that, from a durability standpoint.
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Someone's asking. They're sold out online almost everywhere as well as in stores. That's quite a failure.
There may not be many for sale.💁🏻Someone's asking. They're sold out online almost everywhere as well as in stores. That's quite a failure.
They won’t have invented the crappy foldable, they’ll have invented the foldable that tons of people actually want. So re-invented the foldable is what they will have accomplished.
It’ll be just like MP3 players, cellphones, tablet computers, smart watches and wireless earphones. No one ever claims Apple invented those categories.
And the most important thing it could do was it had a library of 4 or 5 games. I played a lot of snake and memory. Good times.
The faster Samsung ‘trials & error’s‘ as many folding screen concepts, the faster Apple (& others) will work out how to develop one worthy of standing alongside iPhone slabs.
Samsung need to do this. It’s their screen, it’s their responsibility to push that tech to its limits, so others can then find ways to refine it to their standards.
Good on Samsung for persisting. Can’t wait to see the Fold 2 (no, not the Escobar 😂).
Samsung need to do this. It’s their screen, it’s their responsibility to push that tech to its limits, so others can then find ways to refine it to their standards.
Good on Samsung for persisting. Can’t wait to see the Fold 2 (no, not the Escobar 😂).
Apple’s been researching and filing patents on folding screen tech for 6 or 7 years. They’ve got thousands of employees in-house who can beta test devices, and so does Samsung.
But Samsung has no trouble selling tech it knows isn’t ready for prime time. They were a week from shipping that first Fold when they pulled it. It was a piece of crap and they knew it, but had somehow talked themselves into thinking it was good enough to ship.
Compare that to the first iPod, iPhone, iPad, Watch or AirPods. First gen was less featureful with respect to hardware and software, sure. But would you say any of those was not good enough to be or never should have been released?
What Apple don’t have is extensive real-world testing by members of the public. So I think they’re learning a lot from Samsung’s mistakes/successes, in addition to their own in-house trials.
Replacing the case with gold-colored foil not enough innovation for you? ;-)
& what about the wallpaper of a druglord?! 😂
It’d be fitting if fans of the movie Scarface replaced it with Al Pacino. I’m sure the Escobars wouldn’t mind 😏
I sometimes think a lot of posters here started becoming apple fans about a year ago. Apple has never been first they always wait it and out and release products when they feel they can make the best product. This has been confirmed by Steve Jobs and Tim Cook many times. It is not in their business plans to rush things out that aren't ready. I am certain they will be testing things in their R&D labs, and that is where it should stay for now until it is ready.
Samsung shouldn't be releasing this junk as a beta testing tool to the public. I have so little respect for them as a company compared to apple.
Samsung shouldn't be releasing this junk as a beta testing tool to the public. I have so little respect for them as a company compared to apple.
They could have 10,000 beta testers or more if they wanted, just in Cupertino. In any case, Samsung would probably not be the manufacturer of the screen for an Apple folding device. They’d probably be high priced and as a competitor Apple wouldn’t want to give them their tech. They’d rather contract LG or Japan Display to manufacture them, I’m sure.