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If you made put two screen without bezel, you can't fold it.
Fold it the other way. Then you get your external screen thing for free.
Looks reasonable, but opening operation become weird.
Why I will never buy another Samsung device
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#93My Samsung s21 ultra camera stopped working after a Samsung update. This is pruely a botched app upgrade. Samsung wants me to try a factory reset as solution but I have too much of data to do that. Might move to pixel next.
Used Pixel, GrapheneOS.org WebUSB install, and suddenly this whole thread becomes jokes.
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#94> What they’re doing currently is forcing their early-adopter customers to bear the risks of the new technology. We generally call this "being an early adopter."
there's a difference here.
I was an early adopter of a Chumby (damn I loved that thing). The risk I took was that they would go out of business and no longer support the eco system - that risk proved real.
I can accept taking a risk and it not working out, this is taking one risk and having the company try and pin other risks on you.
Blaming the customer for your weak ass product is not the early-adopter risk, its the caveat emptor / screw you risk. I reject the idea that early adopter means accepting bad quality.
I recently had an issue with my car (A volvo for what it matters) with some painted plastic pealing. It was the first model year, I wasn't surprised, things need to get worked out...the early adopter risk is from them working things out. I took it in and they initially rejected the warranty claim and blamed me. I offered to have a paint chemist friend look at it and do an analysis - that changed their tune quickly. The early adopter risk I took was to my time that there might be some manufacturing quirks...not to them being sleazy about standing by their products.
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sounds like it's out of the one-year warranty period. I think warranty periods for electronics should be longer, but I would also not expect replacement or repair for out of warranty devices, unless defective.
13 months on a $300-$1300 device is defective, lol, what world is this?
I think it should be longer, too. But you are given the option to purchase a 3 year warranty instead of a 1 year.
There's also plenty of ways to damage a device. You could plug it into a damaged, cheap USB charger.
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#96Youtubers and tech sites get devices for free, play with them for a week and give rave reviews. The rest of us have to live with the device for years worth of wear and tear. What could possibly go wrong with bendy screens?
Many influencers on YouTube get paid by the brands. It’s a shit show.
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#97My 65” curved Samsung TV started showing purple clouds on the LCD backlight a couple months after the warrenty expired. Never again, I don’t associate Samsung with high quality products anymore. Other family members with Samsung appliances like fridge, drier and washer have had similar issues.
I have a 65" flat Samsung TV that I'm mostly happy with. But every once in a while, maybe after a couple of months, the video will start flaking out. Knowing it has a computer inside, I just do the classic thing to fix a computer - reboot it. I unplug it for a minute then plug it back in again, and it's good for another couple of months. Simply turning it off doesn't work.
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#98I am truly, deeply, unsurprised that foldable phones fail along the seam. I know that's not the point of the post, and I'm not blaming the author. It just seems like such a ridiculous concept in the first place. My old flip phone had its own problems, and there wasn't even a display along the seam.
I don't get the point of this design either, unless it's to show off deliberate planned obolescence. Two regular screens with ultra-narrow bezels on the butt edge would achieve the same effect, without the constantly stressed folding bit. I have some old (almost 10 years old now) smartphone LCDs and the pixels go right up to the edge of the glass itself.
I'd wager it's a marketing play.
Apple has developed it's own silicon and the chips powering iPhones, iPads and Macs are now the same. They come up with new and interesting manufacturing processes, or supply chain management. Their phones have lidar now. But you know what I've hear for years even from developer friends? "Apple can no longer innovate."
Samsung comes up with a folding screen of dubious quality or changes the shape of the phone and people love it. Internally it's just another Qualcomm or Exynos or whatever. But then what isn't besides Apple? Seems reasonable to try and carve out their segment of the Android market and I think they are largely successful. I know people who will specifically buy Samsung even when you can get similar specced phones for cheaper.
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
13 months on a $300-$1300 device is defective, lol, what world is this?
I think it should be longer, too. But you are given the option to purchase a 3 year warranty instead of a 1 year. There's also plenty of ways to damage a device. You could plug it into a damaged, cheap USB charger.
I just don't buy overpriced, overpowered brand new shit.
Can't be an alpha or beta tester for a multibillion dollar corp if you're the second owner, and already have heard any and all gripes about a model.