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Samsung’s Foldable Phone Is the $1,980 Galaxy Fold

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Re: Samsung’s Foldable Phone Is the $1,980 Galaxy Fold

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Post by bryanlarsen »

salimmadjd wrote: post #29

Slightly OT: IMHO, I think Samsung made a huge mistake announcing the Fold along with their other products. 1 - This is a new product category and I think it deserves its own stage. 2 - Fold is overshadowing everything else Samsung announced. Galaxy, etc. are their biggest sellers but they lost the main attention to the Fold. Basically Fold's hype will cannibalize market attention of their new announcement that will…

OTOH, the fold will get a lot of media attention that will mention the s10 in an aside. The s10 by itself is boring enough that most mainstream media wouldn't mention it. Halo products are often a good strategy.

Re: Samsung’s Foldable Phone Is the $1,980 Galaxy Fold

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Post by tlrobinson »

Niksko wrote: post #31
nickelcitymario wrote: post #22

While I won't be an early adopter for this, I think the concept is great. The things I'll be watching out for if this takes off: 1) How does the screen holdup in daily use? Does the Infinity Flex Display get work out or glitchy at the hinge after 10,000 folds? 2) Will the device get thinner? This is currently the size of two phones stacked on top of each other. I can't imagine carrying that in my pocket long-term. 3)…

If IKEA can build a machine that repeatedly flexes their chairs until failure, I'm forced to believe that Samsung can build a machine that repeatedly flexes their screen. Surely that's not going to be the failure mode, it's more likely to be grit in the mechanism or fragility after dropping.

I think the parent commenter's mention of "daily use" implies things like grit. Hopefully their flexing machine also showers the phone with pocket lint.

Re: Samsung’s Foldable Phone Is the $1,980 Galaxy Fold

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Post by dstaley »

solarkraft wrote: post #81

It seems to be the nicest iteration of a foldable phone so far. I'm still doubtful about the usefulness, though. Does it support the S-pen? I suppose they made it fold to the inside because their display technology limits them to it (even though intuitively I'd expect the opposite to be true), I would find it folding to the outside much more useful, since this thing you'll have to unfold to (properly, the outside scr…

I'd much rather it fold inside to protect the display.

Re: Samsung’s Foldable Phone Is the $1,980 Galaxy Fold

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Post by rrix2 »

jblow wrote: post #28
jshevek wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kindles are not phones, the parent said "I want a phone that I can read books on, and spend quality time with..." A foldable phone may meet his criteria, a Kindle would not.

Right ... the point is, I can do higher-quality reading without carrying extra devices around.

How do you access the kindle when you're not at home?

Re: Samsung’s Foldable Phone Is the $1,980 Galaxy Fold

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Post by empyrical »

zzen wrote: post #34
justfor1comment wrote: post #26

Really impressed that Samsung has matured the display manufacturing process so much that they can launch a mass market foldable screen. Also, surprised to hear the speaker say 7nm processor in the Fold. I didn't know the technology to fabricate 7nm chips existed.

7nm has been around for a while. All 2018 iPhones are using A12 which is manufactured using 7nm.

AMD's next Ryzen CPUs will be 7nm as well. And their Radeon VII uses 7nm Vega chips

Re: Samsung’s Foldable Phone Is the $1,980 Galaxy Fold

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Post by jshevek »

rrix2 wrote: post #134
jblow wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Right ... the point is, I can do higher-quality reading without carrying extra devices around.

How do you access the kindle when you're not at home?

Based on the voting pattern at this point, I think several people may have misunderstood his last comment. He is the original person to post in support of a better phone based reading experience, not the Kindle advocate. So he prefers to carry one device, and uses his phone to read.

Re: Samsung’s Foldable Phone Is the $1,980 Galaxy Fold

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Post by megy »

lnanek2 wrote: post #73
justfor1comment wrote: post #26

Really impressed that Samsung has matured the display manufacturing process so much that they can launch a mass market foldable screen. Also, surprised to hear the speaker say 7nm processor in the Fold. I didn't know the technology to fabricate 7nm chips existed.

Not only that, the S10 announcement shows they can put cameras under the screens too. Oo

They don't have a camera under the screen, they have a finger print reader.

Re: Samsung’s Foldable Phone Is the $1,980 Galaxy Fold

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Post by megy »

voltagex_ wrote: post #135

$2,747.35 AUD if it was going to be a 1 to 1 conversion (which it won't). I'm being priced out of high end smartphones, and I have a well paying job. This does not feel good.

WTF? If you have a high paying job, this is a couple of days work, and it is tax deducible in oz if you work in the industry.
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