I thought I read the Fold wasn't going to be available on Verizon? If something has changed I'll be getting it asap. And I agree, my phone is by far the most used item I own, business and personal. $2k for something I use that much is reasonable to me.

Review units of Samsung's folding phone are breaking, and it's a potential fiasco tha
 

Could mean trouble

Pulls 2k phone out of pocket.

Check texts.

Drops on concrete.

****.

Yeah, they'd better just delay that one. Saw one where the left side just flickered between a blank white and what should be there.

Sammy will figure it out. Even at 0.4% failure rate, that is not acceptable, but still rare. They won't just leave you stuck with a messed up phone.

After the exploding Note 7 fiasco, I'm not so sure.

The protective cases for this thing are going to be interesting to see.

They didn't leave me hanging with the Note 7. They replaced the phone and gave me free money. It was just annoying more than anything.

lol dumb

The new 3D TV/Curved display gimmick.

3d gimmick. Curved TV not gimmick.

My Samsung Galaxy Fold screen broke after just a day
Yikes
By Dieter Bohn@backlon Apr 17, 2019, 1:52pm EDT
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Look closely at the picture above, and you can see a small bulge right on the crease of my Galaxy Fold review unit. It’s just enough to slightly distort the screen, and I can feel it under my finger. There’s something pressing up against the screen at the hinge, right there in the crease. My best guess is that it’s a piece of debris, something harder than lint for sure. It’s possible that it’s something else, though, like the hinge itself on a defective unit pressing up on the screen.

It’s a distressing thing to discover just two days after receiving my review unit. More distressing is that the bulge eventually pressed sharply enough into the screen to break it. You can see the telltale lines of a broken OLED converging on the spot where the bulge is.

Whatever happened, it certainly wasn’t because I have treated this phone badly. I’ve done normal phone stuff, like opening and closing the hinge and putting it in my pocket. We did stick a tiny piece of molding clay on the back of the phone yesterday to prop it up for a video shoot, which is something we do in every phone video shoot. So perhaps a tiny piece of that snuck into a gap on the back of the hinge and then around or through its cogs until it lodged in between the screen and the hinge. It’d be sort of like Charlie Chaplin getting caught in the gears in Modern Times.

(cont'd.)

https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/17/1...flexible-bulge

Bunch of $2000 paperweights.

I’ve read that a lot of these are breaking.

4. Which is still too many. But 4 of them have broken so far. 2 of them were broken by people peeling what they thought was a removable screen protector off. It wasn't removable. So 2 of them have broken. Still too many when you consider how few are out there right now.