Pathetic. Apparently, this is what happens when Samsung doesn't have Apple doing their R&D for them.
I am waiting with bated breath to see how Huawei et. al overcome this issue: anyone want to bet?
Does Huawei offer its Fold smartphone to reviewers too?
Early impressions are very favourable but logically, folding phones will live or die (literally) by their robustness and that will take years to evaluate in the real world. That said, the real world is by far the best place for that to happen.
Or, in three days. That’s all it took to identify this turd as having issues. Not years.
I was going to say, wait and see if Samesung Delays the launch or not in the U.S. If there is no issues, the launch will go on as planned. If there is as we all think there is. Few Review units out there yet so many fails in a short period of time. That equals a high percentage failure rate.
It seems they didn't want to do another HUGE recall on their FOLD. The Reviews were making them look bad, but delaying the launch, so much worse. You can't say the reviewers were breaking them on purpose as a lame excuse. They wouldn't delay a launch over that. WOW!!! Maybe being FIRST is not everything!!! Remember when Samesung Launched the S7 early to be Apple's iPhone. Look how that turned out. Exploding S7's So bad, being banned on planes. In the end, a complete recall of every last S7. This looks like a repeat. Trying to be FIRST with the first folding phone to go on sale to the public. Ops.
It looks like these were early production models given to reviewers to review, and they didn’t pass muster. Since the article states tha the launch is delayed, they haven’t been available to the general public. As someone stated earlier, giving these out to trusted employees might have been a better option, but employees tend to be conservative with stuff their boss gives them, rather than the ‘will it blend’ types, so that test would be biased as well.
I was hoping for this to succeed, as the envelope gets pushed, more possibilities are available for all.
For $2k+ phone that fail badly, Samsung only get a pat on the back and be praised to be a leading tech. Meanwhile Macbook Pro get the worst reps and death curse just because some people don't like the butterfly keyboard. What a fair world we live in.
If only there were some sort of "testing" that could be done, prior to shipping this to the customer.
Like, if only there existed the technology to repeatedly open and close this device, through a temperature cycle, thousands and thousands of times; just to see if the product was robust enough to be delivered to the customer.
But, that would require a company that gave a crap about delivering a quality product.
IT was good to see Samsung at least made an attempt to test, I never thought they were this stupid to thing the bend was not a stress point in need to accelerated testing. With that said, their testing is too idealistic, it is opening it perfectly with to stress or strain on the hinge point. most people would not hold it top and bottom to open and close it. They will grab it at various places to open it. This is the problem with most testing it does not replicate the real world all that well. You can spend a lot of time testing and never see the results of the real work.
A definite double-standard here. The tech world pretty much expects Samsung's products to be rushed out the door with questionable quality. So, when something does fail, or doesn't work as expected, no one is shocked or surprised. With Apple, on the other hand, people expect flawless perfection, so if a product has a slightbend, or some other minor glitch, it's HUGE news. Apple is, in essence, a victim of its own success.
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It looks like these were early production models given to reviewers to review, and they didn’t pass muster. Since the article states tha the launch is delayed, they haven’t been available to the general public. As someone stated earlier, giving these out to trusted employees might have been a better option, but employees tend to be conservative with stuff their boss gives them, rather than the ‘will it blend’ types, so that test would be biased as well.
I was hoping for this to succeed, as the envelope gets pushed, more possibilities are available for all.
This isn't fucking Kickstarter for an experimental product to announce a price and take pre-orders. .