https://arstechnica.com/google/2023/06/rip-to-my-pixel-fold-dead-after-four-days/#p3
Sorry — RIP to my Pixel Fold: Dead after four days
- The closed display halves almost touch, and that can smash debris into the screen.
Ron Amadeo – 6/26/2023, 1:00 PM
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Manufacturers keep wanting to brush off the significant durability issues of flexible OLED displays, thinking that if they just shove the devices onto the market, everything will work out. That hasn’t been the case, though, and any time you see a foldable phone for sale, you don’t have to look far to see reports of dead displays. I’m sure we’ll see several reports of broken Pixel Folds once the unit hits the general public. Corning may save us with an exterior foldable glass cover, but until then, buying any foldable feels like a gamble.
The scary part for Google customers is that a broken Pixel Fold means dealing with the company’s notoriously unhelpful support team. Horror stories are a regular occurrence on the /r/GooglePixel subreddit, where users have called Google Support “hilariously incompetent” and a “nightmare” to deal with, begging the company to improve. It’s one thing to ship normal glass smartphones, but these fragile foldables will put more stress on Google’s support network.
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I’ve always been suspect of “foldable” phones. Not the old ones but the new ones that promise a “big” screen from a “small” footprint.
Just ain’t going to happen IRL of rough and tumble.
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