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ReviewsSmartphonesSamsung’s Galaxy Z Fold2 Is Proof That You Should Skip First-Gen Tech
The original Galaxy Fold was the most important phone of 2019. It showed how flexible display tech could create a totally new type of device with the portability of a phone and the big screen and improved multitasking experience of a tablet. However, like a lot of first-gen products—especially something that ambitious—you really had to … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsThe Galaxy Z Fold 2 Looks Like a Big Step Forward for Foldable Phones
With the original Galaxy Fold, Samsung took a major leap into creating an entirely new type of mobile device. However, like a lot of innovative first-gen gadgets, the Fold was just as much of a tech demo as it was a true retail device. But with the Galaxy Z Fold 2 5G, Samsung appears to … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsSamsung’s Second Foldable Phone Is Finally Here: Meet the Galaxy Z Flip
After months of leaks and rumors, Samsung finally announced its second foldable phone: the Galaxy Z Flip. The announcement came alongside announcements for the new Galaxy S20 and Galaxy Buds+, at its Galaxy Unpacked event in San Francisco. Similar to the recently released Moto Razr reboot, the Z Flip features a clamshell design that allows … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsEverything We Gleaned From the Oscar Commercial for Samsung’s New Phone
Even though Samsung managed to do it without actually revealing its name, it seems the smartphone giant just couldn’t help itself from teasing its next foldable phone during the Oscars. In case you missed it, you can check out a recording of the commercial for yourself below. The commercial all but guarantees that we’ll see … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsSamsung Is Making the Best Phones
Last year after a somewhat lackluster product cycle, I said Samsung couldn’t afford to hold back anymore. And in 2019, it seems Samsung took that message to heart because it released some of the most exciting phone tech we’ve seen in the last 12 months. Now before I get in trouble for patting myself on … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsBig Leak Seems to Give Us the Best Look Yet at the Galaxy Fold 2
Technically, Samsung still hasn’t given it an official name, so in lieu of that, people are just calling it the Galaxy Fold 2. And now, thanks to a user on Weibo, we may have just gotten the best look yet at Samsung’s next foldable phone. Earlier this morning on Weibo, user Wang Ben Hong posted … Continued
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Samsung’s Second Foldable Is a Flip Phone with a Next-Gen Design
The Galaxy Fold just went on sale a month ago, but at Samsung’s 2019 developers conference, the smartphone giant just released a teaser for its next foldable phone. While Samsung didn’t reveal anything about its specs, price, or even a possible release date, Samsung’s next bendy gadget features a very different design than the Galaxy … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsA Month With the Improved Galaxy Fold and I Actually Still Like It
Following the ambitious but janky Royole Flexpai, Samsung’s Galaxy Fold was supposed to be the redeemer, a device that demonstrated the power of foldable tech. Then Samsung gave the Fold to a bunch of savages (aka tech reviewers), who pawed at it like it was a normal phone, and then the Fold had to go … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsThis Samsung Galaxy Fold Stunt Filled Me With Hope and Joy
Our friends at CNET just wrapped up an ambitious and scientifically suspect test on the Galaxy Fold. Samsung says the device will survive 200,000 folds, so the gadget testers got their hands on a machine that could open and close the device quickly and endlessly. Long story short, the Galaxy did not survive 200,000 folds, … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsThe Samsung Galaxy Fold Finally Goes on Sale This Week, Again
Samsung has announced that the Samsung Galaxy Fold officially goes back on sale in the U.S. on September 27th. It’s the U.S.’s turn to finally get in on the folding phone fun after Samsung delayed its initial launch to address concerns regarding its durability. At launch, the $1,980 Galaxy Fold will be available as a … Continued
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ReviewsCan You Spot the Upgrades on the New Samsung Galaxy Fold?
Look closely. That’s a closeup of the new Galaxy Fold, taken at Samsung’s sprawling space at IFA in Berlin. One of the apparently major design upgrades is staring you right in the face. Do you see it? I don’t either. Last night, Samsung announced that the new and improved Galaxy Fold would go on sale … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsSamsung Galaxy Fold to Launch in Korea on Sept. 6, No Official U.S. Release Date Listed Yet
Samsung’s beleaguered, $2,000 Galaxy Fold foldable smartphone has a new launch date in Korea: Sept. 6. The Galaxy Fold was scheduled to launch in the U.S. in April, but Samsung indefinitely delayed its release after multiple reviewers quickly experienced issues including flickering screens and hinge bulges—though some of the issues were apparently caused by reviewers … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsThe Galaxy Fold Is Back: Here’s What Samsung Fixed
When the Galaxy Fold’s launch was delayed indefinitely due to durability concerns, many thought Samsung’s $2,000 bendable phone was dead in the water. Some folks like Apple enthusiast John Gruber even proclaimed that the Fold “is never going to ship and everyone knows it.” But now, after some improvements and design changes, the Galaxy Fold … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsReport: Samsung in ‘Final Stages’ of Fixing Galaxy Fold After Pre-Launch Disaster
Bloomberg reported on Tuesday that South Korean hardware giant Samsung has finally figured out how to keep its $2,000 Galaxy Fold bendable smartphones from going haywire as soon as they land in the hands of users, and though it is in the “final stages” of the redesign it still doesn’t know when sales will resume. … Continued
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Samsung, What on Earth Are You Doing?
The Galaxy Fold still hasn’t gone on sale, and yet, it seems Samsung has caught a full-on case of foldable fever because based on a number of reports and rumors, Samsung might already have as many as three more foldable phones in the works. Now I know product development at big companies—particularly ones the size … Continued
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Tech NewsThis Absurd Samsung Rumor Claims a Foldable ‘Clamshell’ Smartphone Is in the Works
If rumors are to be believed, Samsung doesn’t know when or how to quit. South Korean news outlet ET News reports that Samsung is developing a 6.7-inch clamshell smartphone. You know, even though its flagship bendy phone, the Galaxy Fold, is still missing in action. ET News reports that like the Galaxy Fold, this next … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsDo You Really Believe That Samsung ‘Fixed’ All Its Galaxy Fold Issues in Just Three Weeks?
Remember when Samsung rushed out a replacement Note 7 that also blew up? A day after U.S. reviewers got their Samsung Galaxy Fold units, the internet was flooded with videos of wrecked foldable smartphones. Screens flickered, cracked, and bulged—a veritable PR nightmare for Samsung. While we didn’t have any problems with Gizmodo’s review unit, enough … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsEven Samsung Has No Idea When the Galaxy Fold Will Ship
There’s more bad news for all you bleeding edge early adopters hoping to have one of the first folding smartphones to show off to friends. The Galaxy Fold has not only missed its original ship date, in a recent letter to those who pre-ordered the $1,980 device, Samsung now seems to have no idea when … Continued
