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Samsung recalling all Galaxy Fold review units
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Phones are already small enough to conceal in your shirt sleeve and slip in and out of your pocket. Why do we even need foldable phones?
What an utter shitshow.
Not taking the same level of glee I've seen from others about this, I'm looking forward to these phones working and being the norm.
Not taking the same level of glee I've seen from others about this, I'm looking forward to these phones working and being the norm.
One has to wonder how such a thing happens? Reviewers (who know how to use a phone) are having major issues with it within a day of use. Did they not test the Folds at all? Did they know about the issues and decided to push the product out anyway in hopes that early reviews don't catch 'em? Did they do testing and this somehow didn't come out at all? It's one thing to have issues after weeks/months, it's another to have them hours in.
I mean it's what Apple does with everything. There's nothing wrong with that either, really. They just wait until they're able to refine a technology or make sure the market is truly ready for it before putting it out.
Unless gifted, review units are usually property of the company so they have to be returned.
As for the gifted ones, they issued a recall.
I think we should wait until Huawei's devices are at least in reviewers hands before we say this. The screens are still plastic. The hinge still looks like stuff could get in there and cause issues.
I hope they're good, but yeah. Perhaps wait and see.
Are we talking about G4 era Apple or « a dust particle can kill your 2000$ macbook laptop » era Apple?
Yeah, I really don't know why they didn't properly test it. Problems always arise in the open wild as we see time and time again with new devices but a major fuck up where the device gets unusable within a day? Sheesh. Does being first to the market in a 2000 $+ segment really mean much to begin with?
Sterile testing lab vs actual use where the phone gets exposed to masses of lint and other particles 🤷‍♂️
Plus, Huawei's screen is not protected in any way. I much prefer the concept though.
The idea was for a tablet (somewhat smaller than an iPad Mini) that could be folded in half to be more pocketable (although it would be more than twice as thick).
There's a difference between testing a component independently in an idealized controlled environment and as a complete product in real-world situations.
There's a difference between testing movable parts in a lab environment and a phone being in daily use, being put into dusty / linty pockets etc.
Seeing how the Fold is neither water, nor dust proof, it's not unlikely some kind of debris, or particles somehow made their way underneath the screen which broke the display layer.
Huawei's design might be less prone to breaking from bending (as the screen doesn't need to fold that tightly but rather wrap around at a much higher radius) - but at the same time the screen(s) are on the outside of the phone, which makes it much more susceptible to damage via impact or scratches.
How about instead of gimmicks like foldable phones they just spend more R&D on stuff like memory storage and battery capacity?
Because gimmicks sell where as the ordinary consumer will not read tech specs
Phones breaking because of dust/lint in 2019 would indeed be embarrassing. I didn't even know the Fold wasn't dust resistant. I took for granted it was.
Let's see... 4,380mAh dual battery system that provides 7-10 hours of screen-on time.
512GB-1TB Storage (Keep in mind that the Galaxy Fold offered eUFS 3.0 storage - allowing it to transfer around 3.7GB of data within 3 seconds).
These two features alone were part of the Samsung Galaxy Fold - at least in its iteration that went out to reviewers. Let's not forget the 12GB of RAM too.
I don't quite understand the whole "this is a gimmick" perspective when it's actually a first generation tech - people said the same thing about the display of the Note series in its earlier iterations. Now there are few phones on the market that aren't at least 5.5 inches or larger (keep in mind that the first Samsung Galaxy Note was only 5.3" and people thought that was "too big" at one point).
Seems like this is the case with those who are just looking at the Galaxy Fold in the eyes of someone who just sees the folding screen technology, not the hardware that they've crammed into it.
the point is to get a bigger screen in the same space not make the device smaller.
I'm glad this phone exists, even though it's not ready for primelight, just because the tech is so great and I'd hope 5 years down all companies have phones like this. It's the first time since the iPhone came out that I look at a phone and I feel like I'm looking something crazy future device.
Yup first device to do something really new. People calling it a gimmick don't use a phone for work too lol
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TheVerge's review unit died because something underneath the screen created a pressure point from within which broke the OLED layer.
If you look at that hinge, it totally looks like a tiny grain of sand might make it in there, some way or another.
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According to a video I watched, almost all the problems with the screen come from a protective layer on the plastic screen. It has a small lip a the hinge, which led a couple of reviewers to believe that it was the usual protective membrane you get on phones, so they tried to peel it off.
It seems that the membrane isn't too well placed on the screen, so it easily catches lint, dust and the like, leading to the other issues with small bulges below the screen.
It *sounds* like an easy fix, but who knows.
It seems that the membrane isn't too well placed on the screen, so it easily catches lint, dust and the like, leading to the other issues with small bulges below the screen.
It *sounds* like an easy fix, but who knows.
It's kinda promising in a way. It may be that the issue is almost entirely due to reviewers removing the plastic protector layer, which testers within Samsung wouldn't do because they would know it's not to be removed.