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Same way as how removing feature is being bold and coragous. Phone makers are just playing a game of how utterly stupid they can be and still market it as something amazing.
You’re comparing removing a headphone jack to screen failures?
> Samsung told Quartz that the Fold is supposed to be durable enough to withstand being folded at least 200,000 times, which would equate to about 300 unfolds every day for two years. (The average person checks their phone between 80 and 300 times each day.) I wasn't expecting these screens to hold up very well over time, but that number seems shockingly low to me. I don't like the idea that the screen is expected to…
Even at 300 phone checks a day, you're probably not unfolding the phone each time. it has a screen you can get to without unfolding it, so many of the quick phone checks you do can be done without unfolding it.
It's worth noting that Samsung previously announced they would replace for customers any Galaxy Fold with screen issues. Also all Galaxy Folds are covered under Samsung Care+ which includes accidental damage. It's still a risky first gen device but at least you're getting some protection.
I do like that accidental damage is covered, though.
I think the concept of a scroll device, as in RUBY might be a more interesting approach than a true foldable. I do hope they're able to work through this... but given the pricing, seriously doubt I want to be an early adopter for this ride.
Summary: - 4 review units have failed (a day or two in) - 2 failed due to a removal of a "polymer coating" that essentially looks like a screen protector. This is not supposed to be removed, but several reviewers did (or tried) - 1 failed due to supposed ingress into the hinge mechanism. I'm sure failure analysis is currently going on at Samsung - 1 screen failed with no apparent causes.
I bought a LG TV a year and a half ago, and last week saw some spots on it that looked like a film coating which had air bubbles in it. At the edge of the screen there is a gap where you can fit a nail, and it does feel as if something can be removed.
I tried for a few minutes to peel it (carefully, wondering how I'd possibly missed that for a year and a half). Then I gave up and got a wet cloth, and it turned out it was just a mark on the screen.
It reminds me of shops and bars that have TVs, but leave all the marketing stickers on that are just for when it's displayed in a showroom. Manufacturers should do a better job of marking what should (and shouldn't) be removed.
Even if the Fold has some problems, I commend them for being bold with their design and ambitions. It may be safer to wait for the next generation of that phone, but many recent developments in the hardware space have been lacking in ambition. Kudos to Samsung
How is it "being bold" to release a product that costs $2000 and that has a high failure rate? Yes I realize the same can be said about the MacBook keyboards and I wouldn't disagree.
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> Edit: If anything I want NO mechanical components on any handheld device I own because in the last 40 years of my life everything has broken mechanically eventually. Home buttons, volume controls, connectors, battery holders everything. Yes, but how have the electronic components fared over that time? I've definitely had devices where the mechanical components failed, but never a reasonable-quality device where the…
> For example, compare the times you've tried to input something on a dodgy public touchscreen versus the times you've tried to input something on a public physical keypad—I'll bet there're way more failures on the first than on the second; certainly that's been my experience. Well, anything with glass is prone to vandalism. A metal keyboard is hard to vandalize, a touchscreen needs only a piece of random rock or oth…
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Even at 300 phone checks a day, you're probably not unfolding the phone each time. it has a screen you can get to without unfolding it, so many of the quick phone checks you do can be done without unfolding it.
But there's not another screen when the phone is folded.
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It may be "bold", but is it a design that makes any sense beyond a short-lived sales-boosting novelty?
If it worked I would say yes. Uses of having a small device with a large screen are not that hard to imagine.
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Which is fine because the device I bought would still work.
Unless it has a keyboard or you hold it wrong.
Samsung: phone breaks two days after use. Kudos to them, bravo.
See?
IIRC Samsung also had its own antennagate, nobody batted an eye.