There’s no shortage of warnings now in the Galaxy Fold’s box Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Foldable screens aren’t ready yet.īut there’s another hypothesis Samsung has - perhaps inadvertently - proposed: a phone that’s bigger on the inside is actually a good idea. From that perspective, the experiment is a success because I can confirm that the hypothesis is false. With the Fold, the hypothesis is that a flexible OLED screen could successfully turn into a consumer product. The purpose of any science experiment is to test a hypothesis. The Galaxy Fold is a science experiment, just one that you could theoretically buy. Six months later, and it is awkwardly crammed into my pocket once again, fixed up to make it less likely to be destroyed by random debris.Īnd no, this one hasn’t broken, even after a few weeks of regular use. I won’t go into as much detail here as I did then because less has changed than you might expect. I’ve already reviewed the Galaxy Fold once in some depth, publishing it just before Samsung canceled the original launch. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t interesting things to learn from looking at the Galaxy Fold - again.
But Samsung is selling the Fold, albeit in very limited quantities, as though it is perfectly normal and reasonable to stroll into an AT&T store and buy a fragile, experimental device for $1,980. The review units that broke, the launch that was delayed, the newly fixed version, the sky-high price - all of it is well-known and well-documented. It’s almost strange to have to write those words explicitly because after everything that has happened with this phone / tablet hybrid, you’d like to think that everybody would know the score already.