Remember the Samsung Galaxy Fold? Well, after several months of delays, the phone has been quietly releasing in certain markets in extremely small quantities. The batch of phones sold is rumored to be less than 4,000 units, and that there were absolutely no preorders made online as customers had to walk in and buy them.
Now that the phone is out, several tech you tubers are making new updated videos in the device. This durability test was uploaded yesterday, and is spreading like wildfire on the android/Samsung/google subreddits. Certainly give it a watch, because...y i k e s.
The display gets indentions from tiny finger nails, and don't you dare put your phone in your pocket with lint or near any debris. It appears product can still get in the display and break it.
Considering how little of these phones are being sold, as well as what appears to be no solid plans to sell the phone in carrier stores in the United States, and the results of this test, I don't expect Samsung to manufacture or continue to develop this specific foldable phone. I have a feeling that only a few ten thousand devices will be made, sold, shipped, and the device will be quietly canned and development of a gen 2 device will start, addressing the design failure of this phone.
