“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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