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Samsung finally showed off its new foldable smartphone, the $1,980 Galaxy Fold
Samsung on Wednesday announced more details about its foldable smartphone, called the Galaxy Fold. At Samsung's Unpacked event, we finally saw what the Galaxy Fold will look like, having only seen the device in the shadows when the company announced its existence in November.
The device will use a "7nm" processor and include 12 GB of RAM and 512 GB of internal storage. Oddly enough, there is no microSD slot or headphone jack despite the device's size. Galaxy Fold will include six cameras.
See also: The Galaxy Fold makes no sense as a consumer device yet
With the Galaxy Fold, you spend big to get access to the beta test. The glimpses I got, brief though they were, during Samsung's live presentation of the Fold in London gave me reason to be wary. First and foremost, the inner display of the device never seems to fold out to be perfectly flat. Light reflections glinting off its surface in the presenter's hand exposed a slight ridge in the middle, a spine where the hinge resides and disturbs the flat plane. The left and right wings of the opened Galaxy Fold also reflected light at different angles. I know from my experience with the Royole Flexpai, the first foldable phone, just how hard it is to combine folding and flatness in one device. Judgment should be reserved until we've had a chance to hold one in our hands, but my first impression is that the Fold doesn't always have a perfect, undisturbed 7.3-inch tablet surface. It's a compromise.
Galaxy Fold will amaze you. Here's why you won't buy one
Also at Reuters, Bloomberg, and Wccftech.
(Score: 2) by RandomFactor on Friday February 22 2019, @02:18AM (5 children)
I get the urge for a whizzy new phone, i see the ever increasing price and decide the battery issues on my old phone are livable.
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday February 22 2019, @02:32AM (1 child)
$2,000 now, $200 two years later from some Chinese company. Hopefully with less bending issues.
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(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Friday February 22 2019, @02:46AM
Yes. I would quite like something like this, so I will buy one in 6 or 8 years time, when they work properly and the manufacturers have figured out what works and what doesn't.
Also when it's a quarter the price.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday February 22 2019, @03:36AM
Count your blessings that your old phone only has battery issues, they're coming up with all sorts of ways to make consumer electronics self-destruct in the 2 year timeframe.
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(Score: 2) by stormwyrm on Friday February 22 2019, @10:16AM (1 child)
I'm still using the Nexus 6p that I bought almost four years ago. I lucked out in that when the battery issues became intolerable a year and a half ago (barely half the rated charge that it once had according to Accubattery), Huawei's service centre here still had one last replacement 6p battery in their stocks that they put in my phone for a total cost of about $20 to me. A year elapsed while running on rooted stock Google firmware, until it seemed that my phone's battery life was gradually getting worse and worse with every "update" Google rolled out. I can't prove it definitively, but I got the feeling that Google was putting in more and more battery sucking stuff with every such update, in a bid to get me buy a new phone. Either that or I had a lot of battery-sucking apps in there... Waking up two mornings in a row to a phone drained dead with no easy way to figure out what was causing it was the last straw. So I flashed LIneageOS on it and battery life seems to have improved to tolerable levels again. I've never experienced an overnight full drain since.
I've been looking at today's crop of flagship phones and am singularly unimpressed by them, given that I have to shell out something in the range of $500 to $1000 to get most of them and they aren't such a substantial improvement over the 6p. I was sorely tempted by the OnePlus 6T but eventually decided against it (why would I pay $600 to downgrade the screen resolution [gsmarena.com]?). I had a hard enough time finding a good tablet to replace the Nexus 7 I'd been using since 2013 (eventually replaced with a Xiaomi Mi Pad 4, see my journal [soylentnews.org]).
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(Score: 2) by RandomFactor on Saturday February 23 2019, @02:45AM
Same phone, same time frame. Battery replaced once. Same general experience all around really.
I didn't get the overnight drain, but i always charge it overnight, it just insta-powers off randomly when the battery gets too low (30% at first, now it's more like 70 or 80% and i wind up just starting up the battery case charging it.)
Mine's still on android, but I've had it in a Zero Lemon battery case for years. it's getting pretty shot also, but still works well enough to keep it going.
I'm likely going to replace the case and the primary battery soon enough just to forestall the temptation to get something new.
LineageOS eh, Hmmm....
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