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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 nitrogen »

starpilot wrote: post #150
NowThenGoodBad wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fun story for you on that: I applied numerous time for their Failure Analysis Engineer, Reliability Engineer, and other similar positions but repeatedly got rejected (or simply ignored by their ATS, I don’t play that keyword game very well). My professional career in Materials Science and Materials Engineering has had a large focus on reliability testing and failure analysis. In parallel with inventing new technologi…

Not a very interesting story, just you complaining about how Apple passed on you with a healthy dose of sour grapes. I know a couple aerospace colleagues who got hired there though. They were well above average mechanical engineers, needless to say Apple's hiring bar is quite high.

I'm quite impressed you took the time to write a full paragraph telling someone who wrote several that you didn't like what they had to say. The cleverly disguised personal insult to their engineering credibility is also quite subtle. /s

I find that the color added by a good story adds more to the conversation than the blatant elitism of a contentless dismissal.

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

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Post by canada_dry »

nicoburns wrote: post #5
franciscojgo wrote: post #3

That just seems gimmicky at best IMO. No ecosystem. I expect it will sell for 2-3 years and then die off and have them lose money on it. What type of niche market actually needs a phone that can display 3 apps at once and fold down to a brick sized phone? It's good that companies take these leaps of fate but they sort of seem reaching. Why not wait and keep pushing the tech until it's worth releasing a beautiful prod…

I agree that this looks a bit early, but it also seems like a genuinely useful innovation if it can be pulled off. It reminds me a lot of the first MacBook Airs that sold to a niche market at a premium for a few years until the technology had advanced to the point that they could target a mainstream price point, at which point they became exceedingly popular. I could easily see the same thing happening here.

> a genuinely useful innovation

I agree. The writing is on the wall... people are ditching desktop computers in droves in favour of handheld/portable devices.

Just as I usually do with any new V1.0 tech... I'm staying away, but am excited about future improvements!

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

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Post by nvr219 »

merb wrote: post #114
jashephe wrote: post #12

Tangentially, it's interesting to see how Samsung's reveal video (at the top of the article) [1] is so uncannily similar to what Microsoft came up with a few years ago for the Surface Studio [2], right down to the music selection. Something about technology killing creativity, perhaps? /s [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r_UgNcJtzQ [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifZXp2geVKI (apologies that this isn't a link…

actually it's more like the first iphone reveal.

Simply magical.

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

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Post by malshe »

NowThenGoodBad wrote: post #93
TheOtherHobbes wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You would have expected Apple to test its keyboard designs in the same way - we know how that turned out. Ironically - if that's the word - I think a larger laptop format device with a tactile folding hinged screen would be more interesting than this enormo-phone. This device will probably sell moderately in the nouveau Asian markets, but I doubt it's going to be a storming success, or the template for the next gener…

Fun story for you on that: I applied numerous time for their Failure Analysis Engineer, Reliability Engineer, and other similar positions but repeatedly got rejected (or simply ignored by their ATS, I don’t play that keyword game very well). My professional career in Materials Science and Materials Engineering has had a large focus on reliability testing and failure analysis. In parallel with inventing new technologi…

I am really intrigued when people claim that more students are buying Surfae books than MBPs. Where are those students? Do you have any statistics to back that up or it’s just “anecdata”? If it’s latter then I can add mine here. I have been teaching in 5 countries in 3 continents over the past several years and I teach subjects that require coding. I have to go around the class helping students out on their laptops. I have so far seen only 4-5 Surface laptops. On the other hand the number of students using macs ranges from 5% to 80% depending on the type of the class (undergrad, full time masters, executive masters, PhD) and the country. That has remained steady.

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

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Post by craftyguy »

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.

Expected chair lifespan > expected cell phone lifespan. (sadly)

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

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Post by DKnoll »

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)…

It doesn't seem any thicker than the phones we had in our pockets in the early-mid 2000s. I personally would mind that compromise.

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

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Post by Marsymars »

Shorel wrote: post #71
djhworld wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I often read PDF versions of books (especially technical books) or PDFs of academic papers etc I've never been able to view these properly on a kindle. Well, last time I tried anyway, is it better now?

Kobo Aura One seems to be the right size for your use case.

I have an Aura One that I love (probably around 2k hours of use on it), but the PDF experience (of anything that can't be converted to epub anyway) is not good.

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

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Post by Marsymars »

megy wrote: post #139
lnanek2 wrote: post #73

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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.

It's actually even less of a camera than existing optical under-screen readers, as it uses an ultrasonic system.
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