Samsung Galaxy Fold ... wow

kBm

New video for the Fold

AVFan_01

Well done to Samsung and Huawei for innoating and doing something different. This is the biggest change in smartphones for ages. New kit is always expensive, so no surprise to the cost of either phone. Hopefully the folding phone market will grow over the years and other manufacturers will also produce folding phones. This will push the phones to be better in everyway possible, as the smartphone competition has with "regular" smartphones.

For me its too expensive to buy one, however maybe a 3rd or 4th gen version will be more to my liking.

Inked

Not a good start.

Multiple Reviewers Facing Broken Galaxy Fold Devices After Just Days of Use

kBm

Apparently, these are protective films over the screen that the reviewers have thought it was ok to removed. Obviously not...
Samsung are making the instructions more clearer...

Inked

The fact that it even has a film that looks like it should be removable is an issue. MKBHD said he only tried to remove the film as it was already lifting at a corner.

Hopefully it’s just a bad early batch, but I still think we are going to see lots of screen issues going forward

kBm

Definitely a PR disaster for Samsung.
At least it hasn't caught fire.

imightbewrong

Now delayed due to this.

Broken screens delay Samsung Galaxy Fold launch

Bl4ckGryph0n

Oops...perhaps sometimes trying to be first to market isn't such a good idea...

kBm

If Samsung can't fix the screen issues, and the delay runs more than a few months....this could be the end of the folding devices, before they have even reached the shelves!

The Huawei Mate X is still on for a June release, and with Apple closely watching in the side lines, the foldable phone could end up like the 3D phones. Gone, and forgotten.

Bl4ckGryph0n

There is a reason that Apple hasn't released one yet...Just like when they did release the iPhone when touch sensitive actually was useable...There were touch phones before, I've had a few, but they were sh*t...Innovation isn't necessarily getting to market first, its about doing it right.