“This fall, Samsung has released the fourth version of their Galaxy Note phablet,” Laura Northrup reports for Consumerist.
“As the first devices hit stores, some people noticed something odd: the phone has a gap between its screen and frame just wide enough to fit a piece of cardstock,” Northrup reports. “Are you supposed to go cramming pieces of paper in your phone? Has Samsung introduced ‘business card holder’” as a new feature for the Galaxy Note 4? Not really and no.”
Northrup reports, “Samsung describes this gap as a ‘necessary manufacturing feature’ [which may expand over time].”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Samsung. Built as if by blind monkeys™.
We guess that when one settles for cheap knockoffs, inferior apps, rampant malware, and other assorted niceties, one also expects a certain shoddiness to be present in the hardware, huh?
We wouldn’t know.
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Let’s see how far GapGate™ goes. Good luck.
I rest my case my case your honours!
One thing we know for certain. The gap was NOT copied from Apple. It is truly an innovative addition of Samsung’s design team and manufacturing crew working in concert.
It’s waterproof! (Don’t forget to stick it in the microwave for 80 seconds before plunking it in the water.)
It only becomes waterproof when you’ve caulked the gap with sufficient oakum and earwax.
Manufacturing feature…? So is the gap between Samscum and reality.
Once a POS always a POS – Samscum.
It was made that way so you could literately “put a fork in it”.
haha
Not to defend Samsung, but how many phones in peoples hands actually have this problem? The pictures here are the only pictures I have seen of anyone demonstrating the gap. I have no love for Samsung but from the reports it seems that their gapgate is no worse than Apple’s Bendgate (at least in terms of number of real people actually affected).
Samsung refers to the gap in the user manual and tells customers not to worry about it.
They wouldn’t do that if it was a rare thing.
Manual is in Korean.
Click to access SM-N910K_User_manual_Rev1.0.pdf
As my Korean is non-existent I’ll take your word for it, but thanks for the link, this is the first I had seen anything beyond the pictures above and something of a statement from PR.
It’s even pointed out in the Manual. As mentioned before.
Umm, duh!
That’s the whole point. Since the FUD purveyors were so quick to pounce on NINE bad iPhones out of 15,000,000 it behooves we iPhone users to reply in kind.
It’s merely highlighting the ridiculousness of their ways.
It due to the low volume of these phones that have actually been bought, not just shipped as well as the lack of manual dexterity of said Note 4 owners. Most cannot line up cardstock with the gap.
SAMSUNG: You, my beloved customers are all SUCKERS!
“You’re molding it wrong.”
That is gonna be one stanky phone – unforch many of the same people who buy samesung also eat with their hands and talk on the phone with their mouths full… gross
The gap is going to be chock full of ebola and no one will be checking when it passes though US customs and immigration.
And then they spent $14 billion to try and blindside gullible people into paying money for it. It just shows how much scamsung detests its regular customers and wishes it had more like Al Qaeda/ISIS instead.
ScamScum beware! You are treading into M$ territory! M& has claimed flaws as features for years. M$ may have been the first tech company to do so. Claiming flaws as features has become an M$ trademark. You may have awakened the sleeping giant. 🙂
So if you go to the article, there is a twitter feed with pictures of an iPhone with post-its stuck to it to make it look like there is a gap between the screen and the casing. What a joke. I was able to do that because the sticky portion of the post-it will hold it up. I have no gap. And(hem)roid tards trying to fake stuff up about iPhones.
Samsung, there is a gap in your logic. And another in your honesty. And yet another in your credibility.
Oh, and if you really want to copy how Apple handled your latest attack on them, let reporters into your testing facility to see how you use sophisticated machinery to ensure the proper gap during manufacturing.
Yup just what I want to see on my phone. A huge crack or gap that I know will only get bigger and BIGGER! NOT!!!!!!!!
You buy crap, you get crap.
Of course it’s a feature! And all developers creating involuntary bugs are copying Samsung’s innovation.
As a chippy, I use my Note 4 as a plane block. Nice on edging doors.
Looks like ishill outlets are extremely butt hurt over bendgate. So much they try to blow up such an insignificant detail to the level of “gate”. LOL.
So the “gap” is paper-thin wide (LOL) and less than a millimeter deep. It provides space between the metal edge and the display glass which, in case of a drop, will prevent the force to be directly transfered to the display.
I’m sorry to all iPhone lovers but for some time now you are ending up with a subpar device and this time that fact is even more aparent.
Btw. did yoy guys saw the new Apple hairgate? Well that is the level of gapgate. ROFL.
Your galaxy’s gap has pubes stuck in it.
“Over time, friction between parts my cause the gap to expand”
That’s what she said.