Samsung’s hotly anticipated Galaxy Fold smartphone is set to be released this Friday, and when it is it will become the first widely available handset with a foldable display. That’s the good news. The bad news is that so far, we have every indication that the Galaxy Fold is a piece of junk. When companies send review units out to bloggers, it’s troubling to see even one or two devices fail. In the case of the Galaxy Fold, we have now lost count of how many bloggers have said that their review units broke. This is obviously hugely troubling considering the only reason to buy a $2,000 Galaxy Fold is for the folding screen, and the folding screen is what has been breaking.
Beyond the apparent shoddy craftsmanship and horrible build quality, the Galaxy Fold has even more issues. First, there’s a thin plastic film stuck on the screen that looks like one of the cheap screen protectors that come pre-applied on many Android phones. It turns out that this is no screen protector though, and if you peel it off your display will break. That’s right, it’s a $2,000 phone with a display layer that doesn’t extend all the way to the edges and peels right off. As a cherry on top, the design itself is terrible, even if you disregard the fact that Galaxy Fold units are breaking left and right. It’s too thick when folded closed, there’s a gap between the two sides that makes it even thicker, the inner and outer displays have huge, unsightly bezels around them, and there’s a massive notch chomped out of the corner of the main display. Ugh.
The good news, if there’s any to be found in this huge mess, is that Samsung is already working on next-generation foldable devices that will apparently feature much better designs — though at this point, things can’t get much worse.
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