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!

  • BlackCoffee@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I had a Z Fold 2 for 2+ years before selling it and it was a great phone overall. Didn’t feel like the technology “wasn’t there yet” but it felt like a full fledged product and the built quality was really top notch.

    What i agree with is that indeed the inner screen is a gimmick or the foldable idea itself. I found myself using the inner screen mostly for streaming and using the outer screen for literally anything else. Which meant that for 95% of the time I used the outer screen.

    I think the Flip series has a way better usecase for a foldable because the fold Idea reduces the size of the “normal way of use” product.

    I think the Fold expands on the “normal way of use” so it is easier put it in the gimmick territory.

    I still think it is better to just get an Phone + Tablet overall if you want the best of both worlds.

    But to be clear, this has been my experience as having had the Z fold 2 as a daily driver for 2+ years.