“Samsung has delayed the release of the Galaxy Fold past the original April 26 launch date, the company told CNBC in a statement,” Todd Haselton reports for CNBC. “Samsung said that the Galaxy Fold ‘needs further improvements’ before it releases the phone to consumers, and that it will continue to evaluate feedback it received from reviewers and further test the phone. Samsung said it will announce a new release date ‘in the coming weeks.'”
“The Galaxy Fold is the first foldable phone to launch in the United States, but early review units, including one tested by CNBC, were breaking,” Haselton reports. “After just two days of use, the screen on CNBC’s test unit began flickering and then stopped working completely.”
Haselton reports, “Samsung began taking preorders for the $1,980 Galaxy Fold earlier this month.”
The screen on my Galaxy Fold review unit is completely broken and unusable just two days in. Hard to know if this is widespread or not. pic.twitter.com/G0OHj3DQHw
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MacDailyNews Take: Galaxy Fiasco.
Karma. She is one beautiful bitch!
SEE ALSO:
Beleaguered Samsung postpones Galaxy Fold media events – April 22, 2019
Hey, Samsung, what’s the point of being first, if you can’t be good? – April 19, 2019
Samsung Galaxy Fold display failures raise specter of Note 7 fiasco – April 18, 2019
CNBC reviews Samsung Galaxy Fold: Completely unusable after just two days of use – April 17, 2019
The Verge reviews Samsung Galaxy Fold: Screen broke after just a day – April 17, 2019
Samsung Galaxy Fold display issues emerge immediately – April 17, 2019
Ugly wrinkle for Samsung: Galaxy Fold sports a nasty crease running down the middle of the display – March 21, 2019
absolute joke – March 14, 2019
Apple’s glass supplier says it’ll be ready for real, durable foldable iPhones within ‘a couple of years’ – March 5, 2019
Apple patent application reveals foldable iPhone with self-heating display, lock-out mechanism to protect against cold weather damage – February 28, 2019
If Apple does a foldable iPhone, then folding phones will have been done right – February 28, 2019
A phone that is everything it was cracked up to be.
Here’s hoping they fold the entire venture.
You guys crack me up!
No doubt, Samsung will bend over backwards to de-crease this problem.
Leave it to MDN to gloat about the products of Apple’s #1 display and chip supplier. Irony abounds.
Apple’s No.1 chip supplier is TSMC.
not when including memory and cpus. but you can always recheck your facts.
I don’t think so… and it doesn’t matter…supplier is different from making an end product… Apple doesn’t care supplier if it meets quality…
It’s a good thing Kia/Hyundai don’t release new cars in this state of development. Or do they?
Did Apple recall all MacBook Pros once keyboard faults were reported? How about those overheating i9 MacBook Pros were they recalled?
No, Tim Cook’s Apple tried to tell everyone it was just a small number of units. No product recall and consumers are forced into a class action suit to get recompense. Shabby keyboard from a shabby company.
Samsung are doing what a decent company would do, once an issue is discovered do a product recall/not actually release it. You can’t complain when a company does right by consumers.
Let’s wait for this year’s iPhone before throwing the word ‘beleaguered’ around. Apple is fast running out of ideas to keep its cash cow alive.
That is possibly the most positive spin that anyone could apply to the Samsung Fold fiasco.
Your Apple examples should be compared to the Samsung Note, not the Fold. Those events involved a large number of units that had already been shipped when the problems arose. In this case, the Fold is premature turd that can easily be flushed before having any significant impact in the retail sector.
You are also missing the point – this appears to be a failure issue which would have turned up in casual testing, not some obscure confluence of technical issues.
Ah, no. Samdung are not doing this as a good will gesture or because it’s a “decent” thing to do. They’re doing this because of the obvious bad publicity, potential lawsuits, and to avoid what will already be a flop of a device.
And I’m happily awaiting the next iPhone, because, you know, last year’s iPhone was a great device, as was the year before, and the year before that. I could recall Samdung’s Premium exploding phone offering from ONLY 2½ years ago, but that would be a bit petty… oh well! 😉
Obviously what they should have done was remove all reference of the product from their website and then two years later announce it was canceled