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The Verge: Samsung galaxy fold screens breaking after a day of use for users
- Thread starter OtherWorldly
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Yes, the verge.
Anyway, my point was that I just find it strange that I dont see any tech youtuners having this spontaneous broken phone problem that seems to exist purely on places like cnbc, the verge (yes, the verge), or with people who's job description literally has the word "apple" in it.
Imagine asking why none of all of the people I scoured YouTube to find who had the fold have had any spontaneous screen breaking issues and having the only example given not be a spontaneous screen breakage but the person actually wrecking the phone themselves.
I don't normally quote crazy people, but dude, it's a phone. It breaks for some people and it doesn't for others. Shit happens.
But it's so innovative! And so good of Samsung to be first to market with a great folding device!
Here's a tech youtuber who makes the same points I'm making.
- Out of the four people who have made complaints about the screen breaking, only 2 of them didn't actually break it themselves.
- One of the people who broke the screen themselves only (dishonestly imo) decided to mention that they broke it themselves in a separate tweet, not showing in the OP. "My Galaxy Fold screen broke after just two days!!!! BTW I broke it myself"
- No tech youtuber so far has had their screen suddenly stop working, and there are quite a lot of them.
- I'll take the opinions of those who do hours of real use footage and testing of the products they review over those who write short articles and whos job title literally reads "apple and devices" guy for bloomberg (where all the real tech experts work of course).
-We don't yet know if these issues will arise in consumer products vs test / review units.
Because of all that, I'll wait a little to see if this is a widespread issue or not.
- Out of the four people who have made complaints about the screen breaking, only 2 of them didn't actually break it themselves.
- One of the people who broke the screen themselves only (dishonestly imo) decided to mention that they broke it themselves in a separate tweet, not showing in the OP. "My Galaxy Fold screen broke after just two days!!!! BTW I broke it myself"
- No tech youtuber so far has had their screen suddenly stop working, and there are quite a lot of them.
- I'll take the opinions of those who do hours of real use footage and testing of the products they review over those who write short articles and whos job title literally reads "apple and devices" guy for bloomberg (where all the real tech experts work of course).
-We don't yet know if these issues will arise in consumer products vs test / review units.
Because of all that, I'll wait a little to see if this is a widespread issue or not.
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Wait, are you saying Mark Gurman isn't an authority on consumer electronics?
All of the reporters who have had issues with their Fold are experts in their fields.
Not sure a device that so clearly needs a plastic screen protector on in order to meet a minimum standard of function is ready for the prime time irrespective of whatever biases The Verge might possess
Lol.
I would trust Mark a little more if he didn't tweet that his phone screen broke "after just two days!!!!!", if he was honest enough to note that he actually broke it himself without initially framing it as though it just "happened".
His literally official job title of "Apple and devices news for bloomberg" just piles on the skepticism even further.
Like I said, I'll trust all the youtubers who seem to have no issues recording hours of content, showing the phones off in the real world, not breaking their phones, apart from the one who did and was honest and actually admitted that he did it himself.
Whew. I almost pre-ordered this last night as a birthday gift to myself. Definitely going to wait on a Gen2 now. Will keep rocking the Note 8 for another year. Doubt the Note 10 will wow me. If they can work out the kinks in this phone next go around and add features, I will be there next year.
Holy shit it's viral marketing for the new Avengers movie
Yes, out of the 4 out of what, 20 or (much) more people who have been sent review units and had issues, 2 of them broke the phone themselves. One of whom, who is quoted in the OP as having their phone"suddenly" stop working, didnt state that in the beginning.
2+2 is 4.
Minus 1 that's 3, quick maths.
When I'm done, half of your phones will be working.
I hope they will text you.
Hmmm.... AndroidCentral states that allegedly Samsung told early reviewers that the top layer of the Galaxy Fold's screen was NOT removable: https://www.androidcentral.com/heres-why-galaxy-fold-displays-are-already-breaking
Whats the failure rate? Is it high, or are these rare? Every product has some lemons. It's pretty stupid to try to create a narrative based on 1:1000000 failure rate. If it's common then yeah only then is it a 'thing'. The Note 7 exploding battery thing was actually a really low rate but you get enough people with an axe to grind to report it, now it becomes a 'thing'.
why the fuck wouldn't they warn consumers then? There should at least be a big ass READ ME on top of all that fancy packaging.
They're opening themselves wide open, but this is the issue you deal with making any new product like this. Can't say I'm feeling sympathetic, although it's gonna suck for adoption of this tech. I think people forget that. With the ps5 coming out next year it'll have its own fair share of issues. Happens a lot with electronics ...
At least all of this is being revealed before the general public release through these early review units being shipped to early reviewers.
To be fair they done a lot of people favours as anyone getting one now will be vary of doing that.
Also if they don't read manuals, I highly doubt a lot of the general public will.
Even that instruction - what kind of statement is "...may cause damage"? To me, that doesn't say definitely that the screen will break if you peel off that layer, more like that it may break if you remove it carelessly, but may also work if you remove it carefully. If that film is not supposed to be peeled off full-stop, they should have at the very least printed "Do not peel off the protective layer, as the screen will stop working if you attempt to remove it".
Not to mention that of course they should have tucked that protective film under the bezels so that it wouldn't look like something that can be peeled off. This reeks of some last moment manufacturing adjustment because they figured out that something is wrong when it was already too late, and the batch of the phones was already manufactured and ready for sale.
Not to mention that of course they should have tucked that protective film under the bezels so that it wouldn't look like something that can be peeled off. This reeks of some last moment manufacturing adjustment because they figured out that something is wrong when it was already too late, and the batch of the phones was already manufactured and ready for sale.
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Savy users are the ones least likely to read manuals though? Its not like you're building anything. Its supposed to be a phone...
That makes too much sense. Makes your follow up even more believable.
I know. But its wrong for reviewers to behave like normal people. They are suppose to be nerds leading the mainstream
Bro who does???
If this breaks so easily by something that is removed so easily what a quality product
Because in 6 months everyone can complain about the new iPhones while praising Samsung for being innovative.
If you look at their press releases they say it "will fold" not that it "folds". Clearly marketed as a single use device.
Because two review units had issues?
How many review units are being used right now and what's the failure rate?
Hahaha, yeah. If this is supposed to be as vital to the functioning of the device as the actual display glass is, make it as hard to remove as the damn display glass. At the very least do something big and unignorable like putting a giant sticker on the phone that says that removing the layer is likely to cause screen breakage
