The Verge: Samsung galaxy fold screens breaking after a day of use for users

[OtherWorldly]

https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/17/...roken-screen-debris-dust-hinge-flexible-bulge

 

[DECK’ARD]

Whoops

 

[EightBitNate]

$2000

 

[Browser]

Thats the price early adopters usually pay, now to understand how widespread this is.

I wonder how much they will play the "new technology"card

 

[BLEEN]

Jesus lmao

 

[Voyager]

Damn

 

[BAD]

Thought they'd have fixed this before sending it to the press

 

[Souzetsu]

Wow.

 

[Deception]

Not even 2 days? You would think that Samsung would learn something about bad PR...

 

[metalslimer]

No way in hell I would get in on the ground floor of this.

 

[Rvaan]

The obvious problem happened

 

[Deadly Cyclone]

$2000

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Mostly review units.

No one is buying first gen tech without knowledge that there might be issues. So, no one is buying first gen tech.

 

[Bluebot]

I would love to be a fly on the wall at Samsung's PR department right now.

 

[javac]

The screen is plastic and the thing doesn't close flush all the way around, expect this to happen a lot.

 

[jontin]

Have any exploded after folding yet?

 

[Silent]

Surely they would have known this through stress testing? Why release such immature technology?

 

[Inugami]

Having the fold on the outside was stupid and the engineers in charge should have realized it was stupid. There's a reason the competitors are making it an internal fold versus external.

 

[Fatoy]

I'm no Samsung apologist (I think most modern smartphones are horrendously overpriced, and I especially dislike their Android skin) but it's a brand new device category with lots of moving parts. Failures are going to happen.

If it turns out this is really widespread then obviously it's a big problem, but it's not shocking right now.

 

[Col.IndianaLongnuts]

$2,000 for this ? What a joke

 

[DOT_mjo]

Hopefully it isn't a design flaw or Samsung is fucked.

 

[TaySan]

Yeah no way I'm buying this as a first gen device. $2000 lmao

 

[SilkySm00th]

Never woulda fuckin guessed...

 

[darkwing]

Huawei Mate X laughs

 

[Deleted member 12129]

They said the screen would be durable enough to handle thousands of folds, and review units are breaking? Fuck that

 

[Cronogear]

The most first gen of products.

I don't know why any normal person would buy this when they could just wait for the certainly much improved 2nd or 3rd gen versions.

I guess if you are swimming in cash and just want to play with one.

 

[TerminusFox]

The idea of a foldable always seemed like a dumb idea anyhow

 

[EightBitNate]

Thats the price early adopters usually pay, now to understand how widespread this is.

I wonder how much they will play the "new technology"card

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Considering it happened with 3 review units, I'm going to guess it's very widespread.

 

[Deleted member 15428]

Rome wasn't made in a day

 

[FeliciaFelix]

Fucking lol. Paying $2000 to be a Guinea pig.

 

[Deleted member 16365]

My guess is they're sitting on them, or applying too much pressure to the hinge since it's not flat. Dumb design that didn't think about current usage habits.

 

[//ARCANUM]

Samsung: "Within reasonable design expectations." / "User error". lol

 

[PIMPBYBLUD]

You gotta know when to fold em, know when to hold em...

 

[entremet]

*Apple laughs

 

[Book One]

That, uh, feels like something you should probably tell the customers.

 

[El Bombastico]

But have they exploded yet?

 

[Shiny Pokemon Hunter]

Welcome to the Fold!

 

[Toumari]

Biggest tech flop of 2019 right there.

 

[Klyka]

At least they didn't explode! (yet)

 

[DJ_Lae]

Pretty much what you'd expect from a folding phone, although maybe not that quickly after getting one.

I mean, yes, let's put the main point of stress directly in the center of the thing you look at.

 

[stupei]

Lol

Written on my non-folding, and thus still working, Samsung phone.

 

[Hydeus]

That's my Samsung!

 

[whatsinaname]

*Apple laughs

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Foldgate to compete with Bendgate and Flexgate.

 

[SugarNoodles]

Engineer: "The technology simply isn't there yet."

CEO who is totally not a comic book villain: "You have 24 hours"

 

[Kinthey]

$2000

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I imagine this would fall under warranty. Though I don't know about the guy who accidentally removed the screen protector

 

[Toumari]

 

[Serene]

Ah, the price of being first to market

 

[Deleted member 35011]

Super interested in the tech, having a tablet that fits in my pocket would be very helpful with my work...

But yeah this is why I don't want to get it until a later gen.

 

[Kadey]

Thing isn't even out yet.

Somewhere Huawei is laughing.

 

[Ferrio]

That, uh, feels like something you should probably tell the customers.

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Wow that's a huge oversight. Consumers have gotten used to peeling off the protective film that comes with a new phone, so they design a phone with peel-able film that you're not suppose to peel off? Good job.

 

[show me your skeleton]

They said the screen would be durable enough to handle thousands of folds, and review units are breaking? Fuck that

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well obviously they had to fold each one a thousand times to be able to prove that so i'm surprised a phone screen's unable to survive one thousand and one folds.