All the negative trends. Apple fans just accept them because anything is worth having a status symbol.
To no ones surprise, you're shit posting.
All the negative trends. Apple fans just accept them because anything is worth having a status symbol.
Nah, apple is good at creating negative trends just because it maximizes their profit margins.
Nah, apple is good at creating negative trends just because it maximizes their profit margins.
To no one's surprise you are attacking anyone saying anything anti apple.
Agred on the above. There's a bit of an apocalyptic undertone to some of the reviews and comments about the Fold, but we really don't know how durable the device is yet when used with reasonable care. Guess we'll see soon enough.Wasn't being hostile, just finding humor in conflicting statements.
Also "don't mistreat my electronics" is still a lot different from "babying". I don't know many people who have devices that need to be babied. Who knows, maybe you're thinking of that term differently than what it means and that's where the confusion is?
As I said earlier in this thread we will see what everything looks like in 3-4 weeks. Maybe it's bad, maybes it's not. We won't know until consumers have a hold of it and it goes through normal wear and tear from normal everyday use.
Don't forget to wear your 3D glasses while you're at it.
Eh, they've never released a product this faulty, and let's not forge the exploding phone.
Apple fans also denied that anyone would want bigger phones because Lord Steve made a video with a thumb and how far it could reach. But here we are. Nothing in tech is for everyone, but foldable phones will be a dominant form factor in 3-5 years. A few people will buy non foldable phones, just like people (including myself) buy iPhone SE or other small phones. But foldable is the future.
https://www.gizchina.com/2019/04/21/samsung-galaxy-fold-pre-sale-temporarily-canceled/
Samsung Galaxy Fold pre-sale temporarily cancelled
https://m.mydrivers.com/newsview/623861.html
Rumor that the sales training for this phone is being halted
https://www.gizchina.com/2019/04/21/samsung-galaxy-fold-pre-sale-temporarily-canceled/
Samsung Galaxy Fold pre-sale temporarily cancelled
https://m.mydrivers.com/newsview/623861.html
Rumor that the sales training for this phone is being halted
Looks like it's isolated to China right now.
That second link though. I would never be able to get past that crease in the middle of the screen. It's so noticeable in that photo.
Curious to see one of these in person soon.
Edit - NVM. Translated the article and it seems it may affect NA. Hmm.
I dunno about US, however I was on the Fold site for Germany right after this thread was created in an attempt to source the local price of it but it was also only for sign up (with no pricing info).Didn't samsung's website have pre-orders up preiviously? It just has sign up for notifications now.
https://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/galaxy-fold/
Didn't samsung's website have pre-orders up preiviously? It just has sign up for notifications now.
https://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/galaxy-fold/
Whats alarming is this is whats happened to phones that fold inside.This paints a pretty bad picture for foldable phones going forward
Yeah - it makes me wonder how the Huawei foldable phone will be. That one looked more impressive than Samsung's but now I'm wondering if it will suffer from the same issues.Whats alarming is this is whats happened to phones that fold inside.
Phones that fold so the screen is on the outside are obviously going to be even worse in terms of faults.
They did preorders Sunday April 14th for those who registered on Friday April 12th.Didn't samsung's website have pre-orders up preiviously? It just has sign up for notifications now.
https://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/galaxy-fold/
The closest thing to this they've done was bendgate, which was very bad but still not even in the same ballpark as something this fucked
To no one's surprise you are attacking anyone saying anything anti apple.
Why are you here?
It's a Samsung thread, reveling in the competition having a black eye?
Looks like it's isolated to China right now.
That second link though. I would never be able to get past that crease in the middle of the screen. It's so noticeable in that photo.
Curious to see one of these in person soon.
Edit - NVM. Translated the article and it seems it may affect NA. Hmm.
That's just speculation.Whats alarming is this is whats happened to phones that fold inside.
Phones that fold so the screen is on the outside are obviously going to be even worse in terms of faults.
Hah! Apple didn't even invent the notch. The Essential phone was the first mainstream phone to release with a notch and they did it much better than Apple did with more of a tear drop. Multiple other carriers showed their notch phones earlier as well
Apparently the notch was inevitable based of screen technology though Xaomi managed to go notch free with the Mi Mix which was way ahead of apple and all other phones when it came to full screen displays. Shame the phone didn't sell well in the US. It was beautiful though a bit wonky with the bottom front facing camera.
I'm currently rocking the Mi Mix 3 which has no notch and the screen covers 100% of the front.
I watched only one of his videos and refuse to watch any more.
They did preorders Sunday April 14th for those who registered on Friday April 12th.
AT&T already did theirs online, Tmobile is on the 25th.
That news seems to be for China.
To be fair, Apple had leaks showing their notch well before the essential phone was announced.
We speculated that this was going to happen, too, fwiw.
I'm quite certain foldable is going to be a form factor going forward no matter what.
It's rational. Exterior plastic screens are gonna be a major point of concern if we're seeing a significantly more sheltered internal screen suffer these sorts of issues, unless Huawei engineering and materials science is just light-years ahead of Samsung.
It's rational. Exterior plastic screens are gonna be a major point of concern if we're seeing a significantly more sheltered internal screen suffer these sorts of issues, unless Huawei engineering and materials science is just light-years ahead of Samsung.
We have no evidence that Huawei will release an underbaked product not ready for prime time, like Samsung seems to be doing. That's an unusual thing for any company to do. Among other things, maybe they don't include a load bearing film protector on their display.We speculated that this was going to happen, too, fwiw.
People were freaking out about folding screens, excitedly saying it was the future coming today, and I was like IT'S PLASTIC Y'ALL.
Wouldn't folding on the outside increase the radius of the bend, thereby reducing a kink failure mode possibility? Folding on the outside potentially could be safer.
Safer for what? Scratches? Maybe not. That doesn't seem to be the problem here though. I can post hundreds of phones and other devices with a plastic screen on the outside and they didn't face any issues other than being more prone to scratching.
My Nokia 5800 got a bit scuffy. Also, other plastic screens are harder and less vulnerable to damage because they don't need to be soft and flexible.We have no evidence that Huawei will release an underbaked product not ready for prime time, like Samsung seems to be doing. That's an unusual thing for any company to do. Among other things, maybe they don't include a load bearing film protector on their display.
There's been other plastic phones and screens in the past. That won't be the issue in itself.
Safer for what? Scratches? Maybe not. That doesn't seem to be the problem here though. I can post hundreds of phones and other devices with a plastic screen on the outside and they didn't face any issues other than being more prone to scratching.
For the internals that have to bend 180 degrees, making that bend over a greater radius (outside fold) than a lesser radius (inside fold) intuitively seems safer. I'm not super familiar with the tech in particular here, but determining the radius at which something kinks is important when designing it to not fail in use. So, I think outside folding would be less prone to that particular failure.
He's about as real a tech journalist as any other.He's most likely getting paid by Samsung. He is not a real tech journalist and is no different than a marketing arm most of the time.
He's most likely getting paid by Samsung. He is not a real tech journalist and is no different than a marketing arm most of the time.
What the fuck...oh look, another person on the internet not knowing at all what that lawsuit was about
BTW: The result of that lawsuit was not that you have to write "hot" on a cup
the result of that lawsuit is that coffee has to be brewed to a temperature that will not melt the plastic lid atop the cup as McDonalds was. McDonalds was brewing their coffee to something ridiculous like 200 degrees, which is not optimal for coffee and was too hot for the cup to contain. The coffee that spilled on that lady -- because the cup literally melted in her hand -- was so hot that it fused her labia shut in her lap when she couldn't get the coffee off of her fast enough. McDonalds was brewing coffee like 60 degrees hotter than recommended. To give an example, at McDonalds temperature, skin contact with the coffee would cause 3rd degree burns within 2 seconds. At 140 degrees, the recommended brewing temperature, coffee would take nearly 30 seconds to cause 3rd degree burns.
Their realness is determined by how much love they give my corporation of choice's products.
In the case of both the fold and the mate x concept the screen is bending in same manner. The only difference is the direction the screen faces when folded. Perhaps bent is better since these screens do not fold, they bend. Test both with a piece of paper.
Did he?YouTube has pretty strict rules about disclosing advertisers. No worries, he makes a ton of drivel for clicks without any corporation paying him to do so.
This is the dude who said he was going to give away a literal truck load of iPhones.
For those who forgot or never knew.
Thanks, but flexible plastic covers have also been widely used in electronics, namely in devices with capacitive touchscreens. And dents sometimes happened and that, while annoying, wasn't a huge deal, as the devices stayed functional. The problem here is how it seems to affect the remaining layers in the display structure. Again, there is no reason to believe Huawei isn't actually testing its product and making sure it endures daily usage, instead of rushing it to market like Samsung apparently did.This shows a key misunderstanding regarding the nature of foldable plastics. They are, by their nature, significantly softer and therefore far more susceptible to not only scratches and scuffs but also permanent dents.
Wouldn't folding on the outside increase the radius of the bend, thereby reducing a kink failure mode possibility? Folding on the outside potentially could be safer.
Also if the Mate X is anything to go by, the crease caused by stretching the plastic screen around a wide radius bend is visibly much wider than the Folds crease. It looks almost an inch wide in pictures.The fold itself is less challenging, but it also exposes the (apparently) delicate screen itself to all kinds of other abuse.