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Remember a little over 7 months ago when I told you that you shouldn’t get excited about Samsung’s first foldable phone? Well, here we are. 6park.com
Samsung has plenty of strong suits. It is the top-selling smartphone 
vendor in the world, after all. It makes gorgeous AMOLED screens for 
mobile devices. The company also makes some of the best components in 
the world and has a booming chip business. One thing Samsung is not good
 at, however, is first-generation products. In fact, “not good” is far 
too kind… Samsung is awful at designing first-generation products. 6park.com
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We’ve seen it time and time again. Samsung’s strength is refinement, 
as evidenced by its Galaxy S and Galaxy Note smartphone lines. Early 
generations were terrible, plasticky iPhone copycats. Now Samsung’s 
current-generation flagship phones are market leaders in so many ways. 
The Galaxy S10+ might be the best all-around Android phone I’ve ever 
tested, and the Note 10 sounds like it will be even more impressive. But
 the Galaxy Fold is nothing short of an absolute disaster, just like I 
said it would be. In fact, the only way the Galaxy Fold launch could 
possibly be any worse is if batteries start exploding like they did back
 in 2016 when Samsung had to cancel production of its Galaxy Note 7 and 
recall every single phone it sold. 6park.com
It’s official: the first widely available smartphone with a foldable 
display is a piece of junk. Feel free to check it out when it hits store
 shelves next Friday. But for the love of whatever or whomever you pray 
to, don’t buy one. 6park.com
                    
Yesterday I briefly touched on the huge new issues facing Samsung’s Galaxy Fold.
 The company gave out phones to bloggers for review, and a shockingly 
high percentage of those phones are breaking. Anything above a 0% 
failure rate would be shocking for review units of a new smartphone, to 
be frank, and a quick search yielded more bloggers complaining of broken
 phones than bloggers who said their Fold units were working fine. 
That’s insane. 6park.com
Many of the issues we’ve been hearing about stem from the fact that 
the Galaxy Fold appears to have a screen protector pre-applied on the 
display. As with all Android phones that ship with cheap plasticky 
screen protectors, the first thing reviewers did when they got the 
phones was peel it off. The problem, as we now know, is that Samsung 
failed to tell most of them that the plastic layer in question is 
actually an integral part of the display. Long story short, peeling it 
off breaks the phone. 6park.com
 
  
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Now, there are a few glaring issues here. First, can you imagine a 
company being so horrible at design that it’s going to sell a $2,000 
smartphone with an integral plastic film on the screen that can easily 
be peeled off? Can you imagine a company being so naive as to think that
 some customers won’t end up peeling it off even with better messaging? 
And what happens when the phone has been used for a while and the 
adhesive at the edges of that film inevitably begins to peel on its own? 6park.com
This is one of the worst smartphone design decisions I have ever seen. It’s absolutely unforgivable. 6park.com
Then there were other bloggers who found that the screens on their 
Galaxy Fold review units were malfunctioning without having touched that
 stupid film at all. That’s right, the displays are spontaneously 
breaking on a new smartphone that has one major selling point: the 
display. The foldable OLED screen on the Galaxy Fold is literally the 
only thing about the phone that is exciting. And it’s breaking for no 
discernible reason. 6park.com
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Here’s the thing: the Galaxy Fold would be a horrible phone even if 
it didn’t have these issues. The design is terrible, with a giant notch 
bitten out of the top corner for the front-facing cameras. And I do mean
 GIANT, as you can see in the image above. On top of that, the crease at
 the center of the display is visible while you use the phone, it 
doesn’t fold all the way closed, it’s uncomfortably thick in your 
pocket, and the outer screen is ridiculously tiny with giant bezels 
above and blow it. 6park.com
This phone is junk. 6park.com
The idea of foldable smartphones is cool and exciting, but it 
absolutely is not ready for primetime right now. The Galaxy Fold never 
should have seen the light of day. Samsung rushed to be the first 
company with a widely available foldable smartphone, which is nothing 
new for Samsung. It often rushes to be first with a new type of product,
 and the results are garbage each and every time. 6park.com
Maybe Huawei will have better luck in a couple of months when it releases the Mate X. It certainly sports a far better design than the Galaxy Fold,
 and the construction seemed vastly superior when we played with it 
briefly at MWC 2019. But we won’t know for certain until we get our 
hands on a review unit. 6park.com
In the meantime, do yourself a favor and keep your wallet in your pocket when the Galaxy Fold is released next week.