Samsung's folding phone breaks for reviewers

Post by sithadmin » Thu, Apr 18, 2019, 5:04 PM UTC

sandworm101 wrote: post #58

oliwarner wrote: post #53

There are a few ways of looking at this. Most of the more engineery-types are pointing out the inevitability of failure, the challenges trying to find a good enough substrate to mount a touchscreen stack on, and trying to protect an exposed external hinge from impact, and all that material engineering science stuff that's really clever... But well besides the point. I can't even rationalise why anybody wants a foldin…

>> They've made every size of phone between a stamp and a tablet. There's nothing left to do. Really? My dream phone doesn't exist yet. I want a phone that is reliable, that lasts more than a few days on a single charge. I want one with two USB connections. I want one with a proper headphone jack, and a speaker that is loud enough to hear properly while driving (without a mount). For these features I am willing to tr…

Post by penagwin » Thu, Apr 18, 2019, 5:09 PM UTC

rasz wrote: post #54

Reason077 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is currently a widely reported issue with display backlight failures in MacBook Pros, apparently caused by a failure-prone flex cable which can’t be replaced: https://ifixit.org/blog/12903/

Its a non material dependent design defect, cable is too short.

Post by mi100hael » Thu, Apr 18, 2019, 5:13 PM UTC

kurtisc wrote: post #47

reallymental wrote: post #17

Let's assume that they knew this was a half baked product. Not a "first edition" product like the first iPhone, but a rushed, half baked product, released without consideration of sales but just for being the first in the market for this niche. Given this assumption, why would you give it to reviewers at all ? Remember "Vertu" ? They were the Ferrari of phones during the Blackberry era and were _shit_. I got my hands…

>They were the Ferrari of phones >There's a reason why they were not reviewed widely Coincidentally, Ferrari also play dishonest games with reviewers: https://jalopnik.com/how-ferrari-spins-5760248

Post by HeyLaughingBoy » Thu, Apr 18, 2019, 5:21 PM UTC

headShrinker wrote: post #50

baybal2 wrote: post #5

I wonder, if a phone with folding screen truly was a Jobs Steve's "joke?" May be it wasn't, but what a bad design decision it is. What I hear here in China are engineers saying that "all it took a fashionable American CEO to make up a joke about phone with folding screen for Huawei and Samsung to spend billions actually making it."

Over the years Apple was famous for pantenting some pretty crazy ideas. I’m on the record saying I would never want a folding screen for many reasons, fragility being one. As for Jobs playing a joke? I’ll just leave this here https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wired.com/2002/06/china-pap... China may not share our understanding of satire and sarcasm, but you’d think Korea would understand the basic tenants of engineeri…

Post by jacquesm » Thu, Apr 18, 2019, 5:24 PM UTC

FussyZeus wrote: post #79

paulmd wrote: post #74

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> A Ferrari is meant to be ostentatious _and_ a great car (not withstanding pratcicality or cost). Absolutely not. Ferraris are renowned for being shop queens/needing absurdly frequent servicing, which probably needs to be done at an official dealership. Also, often you need to remove the motor to do basic service (the car is designed for this). eg see discussions in this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Justrolledin…

I mean if you own a Ferrari and it doesn't need frequent servicing, I'd question why the hell you bought the thing if you didn't intend to drive it as it's designed to be driven.