Samsung Galaxy Fold 'Ready' For Launch After Screen Fix (bbc.com) 80
Samsung said it has made the necessary improvements to fix the Galaxy Fold and put it back on sale. The April launch of the device was postponed after early reviewers reported broken screens; it's now scheduled to go on sale in September. From a report: "Samsung has taken the time to fully evaluate the product design, make necessary improvements and run rigorous tests," the company said in a statement. Improvements include extending a protective layer to make it clear it is not meant to be removed, as well as strengthening the hinge area with new protection caps. One explanation for the broken screens appears to have been that some reviewers removed a film which they thought was a typical protective layer that came with the phone when first bought.
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It sounds like they have tried to address all the gaps that allowed foreign material to get inside the phone, but how in the world did that get past QA in the first place?
I'm not an android user, but that makes me not want to consider a Samsung in the future if I were ever looking to switch platforms.
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Sounds like the dirt is in no danger of being scattered, it's inside all the Galaxy Folds
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A fold and his money, are easily parted
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You seem to think Science and Engineering works like it does in the movies.
With a guy or team who makes an invention that bends the laws of physics works perfectly and safely from his basement lab.
Being that there hasn’t been a consumer folding screen yet it is bound to have issues and some of the fixes may seem like small changes. However I am extremely impressed with the build quality of the modern cell phone with micrometer perfection something like expanding something one millimeter requires a lo
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No, that was the beta version, which they released ahead of its time. They clearly didn't DO beta testing prior to their launch, which became the beta test. What's coming out now is the first real release version, and you can be certain that it will still have problems.
Frankly I think that the design is hot garbage right out of the gate. Not just because it folds, which is stupid, but because of the plastic layer on the display. That is going to look like crap immediately.
What's sad is that I don't even thi
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Re: they increased the protective layer size (Score:1)
Except they treat and rate it for 200,000 folds.
That's over a 100 times a day for 4 years.
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And how many folds did they rate it for when it lasted only a week or so?
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You mean one year's testing, right? Who own's a phone for longer than a 18 months these days?
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You mean one year's testing, right? Who own's a phone for longer than a 18 months these days?
My current phone is from 2013 and my backup phone is from 2007.. Both are still operational, no problems with batteries, slowdowns or random shutdowns what so ever.. But then again I don't use Apples
Re: You cant do 3 years physical testing In 3 mont (Score:1)
Go home grandpa.
Re: You cant do 3 years physical testing In 3 mon (Score:1)
Go eat some candy, junior.
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People who don't care to piss their money away needlessly?
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Good enough for Boeing.
let's see some proof (Score:3)
i believe it when the reviews are in, showing no more screen failures.
even though that doesn't really mean anything except that the screen will last at least a bit longer, they might still fail after a few weeks/months of use.
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Do I really want to pay $1,000 + to carry a paperback book around in my pocket.
Do you want to pay $1000 to carry every paperback book ever written around in your pocket?
Wait, books don't break.
Evidently, you've never owned a paperback book that was read so often it came apart.
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"Evidently, you've never owned a paperback book that was read so often it came apart."
You can still read it after it comes apart. Try that shit with a Galaxy fold and let us know how it goes.
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Heh, now that has been a while. Some Turbo Pascal reference. Good times.
Royalties for all paperbacks would exceed $1000 (Score:2)
Do you want to pay $1000 to carry every paperback book ever written around in your pocket?
Legally? The publishers would charge far more than $1,000 for that.
Or did you mean illegally? Samsung could get in big trouble for advertising that as a feature. MGM v. Grokster.
Folds, eh, Scroll (Score:2)
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Roll your phone up like a scroll? Are you expecting parachute pants to make a comeback, or do you plan to put it in your fanny pack?
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Hey, don't throw stones. Maybe he wants to roll it up to use to snort coke when he doesn't have a straw handy, or perhaps to smoke weed when he doesn't have a pipe handy. Or maybe he could use it in place of a rolled up newspaper (since he reads all of his news on his phone) when his dog makes a mess on the carpet.
i am done with Samsung (Score:3)
i dont use social media like facebook or any other so dont embed it in my phone,
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Yeah, forced crapware is super annoying. I haven't been impressed by Samsung software polish myself.
If it helps, you can get an app firewall from F-Droid or possibly on Google Play as well to block the Facebook app and whatever else you want to block (I usually block newly installed apps from accessing the network).
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e, it is the software that is frustrating, why is there several entries for facebook that can not be uninstalled? and is it really disabled when i disable it? and why cant i remove
Samsung Galaxy S5 owner here. Let me tell you your software troubles have only started, which is why I won't buy another Samsung phone. Those "disabled" programs still take-up space. So in 3 years you won't be able to upgrade to the latest OS patch because the disabled programs are taking up too much space. Then one of those "disabled" programs are found to have a security problem. You can't patch it unless you enable it, and if you disable it then the original version is downloaded again.
Has Samsung s
Too Late (Score:2)
Apparently it's a thing (Score:2)
"...Improvements include extending a protective layer to make it clear it is not meant to be removed"
My last monitor came with a big yellow tag warning people not to remove the plastic sheet on the monitor screen.
It was obvious to me that it was part of the monitor but apparently it wasn't clear to some people, hence the tag.
So I wonder how many people it took tearing the front of the screen off to make them add that warning tag, and the answer is, "probably a lot".
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Yeah, that's what bezels are for - to cover up those seams so there's nothing to grab and pull.
Too Late (Score:2)
Its probably too late. When this came out they had a huge marketing push behind it, thanks to which the problems will be remembered for years. Even if this new version works perfectly (which, being new, it probably won't), everyone's going to associate it with the failures of the review units.
Re: Transparent Aluminum (Score:3)
No it's not. The thing which some people like to call "transparent aluminum" is properly called transparent alumina, i.e. aluminum oxide, I.e. sapphire. It's a completely different chemical. It's like calling water oxygen because it's mainly oxygen (by mass).
It's not at all like calling carbon dioxide emissions carbon emissions because the phrase "carbon emissions" doesn't only refer to carbon dioxide but also to other carbon containing chemicals emitted, e.g. methane. Carbon dioxide is just the most common
I want it (Score:1)