When I wrote earlier this week that the Galaxy Fold turned out to be exactly the piece of junk that I predicted it would be more than 7 months ago, angry Android fans flooded my inbox with complaints. By coincidence I’m sure, those emails then completely stopped arriving when Samsung basically confirmed that the Galaxy …
Instead of becoming the first foldable phone from a mainstream smartphone vendor to hit stores, the Galaxy Fold turned out to be a minor disaster for Samsung. The Galaxy Fold review units that Samsung sent to several media outlets ahead of the phone’s launched experienced several screen issues that prompted Samsung to postpone the phone’s …
Samsung today officially acknowledged its intention to delay the launch of its highly-anticipated Galaxy Fold smartphone. The news shouldn’t come as much of a surprise given that a number of early review units handed out to prominent tech publications suffered from broken displays, a turn of events that can appropriately be categorized as an unabashed …
Samsung’s foldable smartphone has been making lots of headlines over the past week, and for all the wrong reasons. After several prominent technology blogs revealed that their review units broke within days (and sometimes hours) of use, it quickly became clear that the nearly $2,000 phone isn’t ready for prime time just yet. Now, a …
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 …
Samsung’s most daring phone in years is supposed to launch this week in the US, in spite of the “#Foldgate” issues that we’ve just witnessed. A slew of early reviewers experienced several screen issues while using the Galaxy Fold, rendering these devices useless. That’s a major problem for a foldable phone, although Samsung’s official remarks …
If you’ve paid attention to tech industry news to any degree over the past day or two, you’re no doubt aware that Samsung is dealing with a bit of unpleasant scrutiny at the moment over reports of early units of its forthcoming Galaxy Fold phone mysteriously breaking. Definitely a bad look for Samsung and suggestive …
Remember a little over 7 months ago when I told you that you shouldn’t get excited about Samsung’s first foldable phone? Well, here we are. Samsung has plenty of strong suits. It is the top-selling smartphone vendor in the world, after all. It makes gorgeous AMOLED screens for mobile devices. The company also makes some …
It’s a good thing Samsung decided to unveil its foldable Galaxy Fold smartphone at a standalone press conference ahead of Mobile World Congress back in February. Phones with folding screens are all pretty new and exciting right now, but one of Samsung’s biggest rivals unveiled its take on the folding form factor and blew the …
After years of perfecting the various technologies required to manufacture foldable phones, and after years of hype, Samsung finally launched its first ever foldable. And that’s when the story took an unexpected twist: the Galaxy Fold’s screen started breaking or malfunctioning in the hands of expert reviewers. In a matter of hours, a bunch of …
