After a five-month delay, the $2,000 Galaxy Fold arrives in the US on Friday
The Galaxy Fold is finally launching in the United States this Friday. After a launch failure the company CEO called "embarrassing," Samsung's futuristic foldable smartphone will come to the US after a five-month delay. The company made the news official in a press release today.
The Galaxy Fold was supposed to be a triumph of Samsung engineering. The company spent six years and over 100 million dollars to leverage its OLED display leadership into a new smartphone form factor: the foldable smartphone. The idea was a phone with a flexible OLED display stretched over top of a hinge, allowing the phone to actually fold in half. The device would be smartphone-sized when you wanted a phone and a tablet when you wanted a bigger device.
Once Samsung's early reviewers got their hands on the device though, numerous dead screens popped up. The causes ranged from dust ingress destroying the screen from the inside to reviewers peeling off the top layer of the screen. Samsung took the device back to the drawing board, and after a few tweaks, it thinks the Fold is ready for the general market.
