RIP to my Pixel Fold: Dead after four days
arstechnica.com
The closed display halves almost touch, and that can smash debris into the screen.

“I didn’t do anything to deserve this. The phone sat on my desk while I wrote about it, and I would occasionally stop to poke the screen, take a screenshot, or open and close it. It was never dropped or exposed to a significant amount of grit, nor had it gone through the years of normal wear and tear that phones are expected to survive. This was the lightest possible usage of a phone, and it still broke.”

This can happen to any phone of course — there are numerous threads on reddit of faulty S23 phones that are only days old, and of course the first Galaxy fold phones were problematic — but still. Rough start!

  • UESPA_Sputnik@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I thought there were gimmicks too but I now think that somewhere down the line – once they’re more refined and less expensive – I’d like to get one.

    I was tempted to buy the Pixel Tablet until I realized that I don’t want a second device. I’d rather like a multi-purpose device. And the Pixel Fold seems to have a great form factor to use it as a “normal” phone, and then switch to the large screen when you want to do something that you’d normally do on a tablet, just with the benefit of having all your settings, apps and recent notifications right there with you. It’s a seamless transition which is really neat.

    • Coablt@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I’ve been on the Galaxy Flip phones for a couple years now and I love them. I cannot see myself returning to a brick phone in the future. I think that as long as you treat the phone with a little respect, it will be fine. I’m not exactly gentle with mine and I have never had an issue.