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Brandon Hill - Fri, Apr 16, 2021
Samsung was among the first to bring a foldable smartphone to the consumer market with its original Galaxy Fold and then followed up with devices like the Galaxy Z Flip 5G and Galaxy Z Fold 2. The latter is currently Samsung's largest...
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Brandon Hill - Wed, Jun 10, 2020
Samsung is expected to announce the Galaxy Fold 2 in August, which is fast approaching. The first-generation Galaxy Fold was probably more notable for its display failures, which required a retreat and rethink concerning the hinge...
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Brandon Hill - Tue, May 12, 2020
It's been long rumored that Samsung is looking to bring a cheaper version of its original Galaxy Fold to market. While the Galaxy Z Flip launched with a cheaper price tag ($1,379 versus $1,979), it featured a completely different...
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Brandon Hill - Mon, Feb 17, 2020
Samsung’s original Galaxy Fold did a belly flop prior to its initial release in 2019 due to its under-engineered display and hinge mechanism. Samsung delayed the official launch and went back to rework both the display and the hinge, and...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Jan 09, 2020
What a difference a month can make. Around four weeks ago, Samsung Electronics president Young Sohn bragged about "selling [a] million" Galaxy Fold devices, which would be quite the achievement, given the phone's rocky start and $2,000...
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Brandon Hill - Thu, Dec 19, 2019
We've been hearing rumors about the next-generation, clamshell-style Galaxy Fold 2 for months, but now we're getting our first alleged “real life” look at the device in the flesh. The leak comes from well-known gadget sleuth Ice Universe...
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Brandon Hill - Fri, Dec 13, 2019
Updated 12/13/2019 @ 12:26pm
Yesterday, it was reported that Samsung Electronics President Young Sohn declared that 1 million Galaxy Fold devices had been sold since its summer launch. That was quite an achievement for a phone priced at...
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Brandon Hill - Fri, Dec 06, 2019
We've heard rumblings in the past that Samsung's next-generation Galaxy S11 is tipped to include a 108MP primary sensor, and now that rumor has gained more credibility. Bloomberg, which generally has pretty impeccable sourcing when it...
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Brandon Hill - Tue, Dec 03, 2019
We are still in the early days of folding smartphones, with just the Samsung Galaxy Fold and Huawei Mate X reaching the market so far in limited numbers. Those two devices will soon be joined by the Motorola Razr, which takes on a more...
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Shane McGlaun - Mon, Oct 07, 2019
The gang over at iFixit has got their hands on the revised Samsung Galaxy Fold and have torn it down. The teardown starts with a look at the new protective elements that Samsung added to prevent the Galaxy Fold from getting debris under...
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Brandon Hill - Fri, Oct 04, 2019
In case you weren't following the livestream, the folks over at CNET felt it appropriate to put Samsung's revised Galaxy Fold through hell by subjecting it to a vigorous "fold" test to gauge its durability. Samsung itself says that the...
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Shane McGlaun - Fri, Sep 27, 2019
When Samsung first launched the Galaxy Fold, things quickly went wrong for the company. The Galaxy Fold has relaunched after the company said that it reworked the device to be more durable (making changes to the display and the hinge...
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Brandon Hill - Mon, Sep 23, 2019
After the original incarnation of the Galaxy Fold crashed and burned when reviewers were quick to point out a number of glaring design faults, Samsung is ready to try again with it first folding smartphone. The revised Galaxy Fold was...
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Brandon Hill - Tue, Sep 17, 2019
When it comes to today's smartphones, it seems as though we've fallen into a "rut" of sorts, with iterative updates that don't really push the boundaries forward with respect to design. We've seen this across the smartphone industry with...
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Shane McGlaun - Thu, Sep 05, 2019
Samsung has had a rough time with the launch of the Galaxy Fold smartphone. The smartphone went up for preorder, sold well, but failed quickly when in the hands of reviewers causing Samsung to cancel that launch and rework the smartphone...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Sep 03, 2019
Samsung must be feeling extra confident in the tweaks it made to its Galaxy Fold, because apparently it already planning a follow-up act. If the latest rumor is true, Samsung will launch another premium phone with a folding display...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Aug 30, 2019
At long last, Samsung's folding smartphone may finally see the light of day next month, following a short-lived and ill-fated launch. We are of course talking about the Galaxy Fold. If the latest report from a South Korean news agency is...
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Brandon Hill - Wed, Aug 07, 2019
Samsung is the world's leading producer of smartphones, as it maintains a narrow lead over competitors like Huawei and a more sizable advantage over Apple. As a company that is at the forefront of smartphone design and innovation, one that...
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Shane McGlaun - Thu, Jul 25, 2019
Samsung has had some embarrassingly high-profile failures of its devices over the years, with its most recent embarrassment coming from the Galaxy Fold debacle. The Galaxy Fold was highly touted, sold well in preorders, and failed almost...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Jul 03, 2019
Samsung apparently thinks it has a handle on what caused premature failures of its Galaxy Fold smartphone, but whether a retail release is still in the cards remains to be seen. For now, however, it is said that Samsung has completed a...
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Brandon Hill - Mon, Jul 01, 2019
The Galaxy Fold launch didn't exactly go the way that Samsung had hoped for after multiple reviewers complained of faulty review units ahead of the device’s highly anticipated launch. The company was forced to call off the launch of the...
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Brandon Hill - Mon, Jul 01, 2019
Samsung hoped to set the tech community ablaze with its Galaxy Fold smartphone, which as its names implies features a folding display. However, early problems with the protective display film and the hinge mechanism have postponed the...
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