Samsung’s Galaxy Fold launch is now nothing short of an unmitigated disaster. Who could have seen this coming… 7 months ago? The last thing a company wants to do when it’s about to release a first-of-its-kind product is give consumers any doubt that it’s a high-quality product. Well, Samsung went far beyond giving consumers a bit of doubt — it showed us in the clearest possible light that the Galaxy Fold is a piece of junk. We have now lost count of how many Galaxy Fold review units broke shortly after being sent to bloggers to review, but suffice it to say the figure is painfully high. It was so high, in fact, that Samsung decided to cancel the phone’s release this Friday so it can investigate the issues that have been causing the Galaxy Fold’s display to break. That’s right, we said “issues,” as in plural. It’s not just one problem that has been causing the screens to malfunction, it’s several.
The biggest problem appears to be the fact that the phone’s foldable OLED screen has a thin plastic layer on top with exposed edges, so it looks like a screen protector you would find pre-applied on many Android phones. It’s not a screen protector though, and if you pull it off the display will break. You read that correctly: this is a $2,000 phone with an exposed display layer that peels right off. But the displays on some review units broke even with that top layer intact, so Samsung clearly has some work to do before the Galaxy Fold can see the light of day again. As it turns out, however, the Galaxy Fold might already have a new release date… and that could be very bad news for anyone who plans to buy one.
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Samsung’s Galaxy Fold might already have a new release date – and that’s awful news originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 24 Apr 2019 at 08:17:13 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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