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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 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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