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!

  • BenignLarency@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    1 year ago

    Idk respectfully, devices used for spans of time counting in days is far from “dead”. You got a leamon, it happens.

    Talk to me when we see devices dying after a handful of months/ within the first year (when you can’t just immediately get your money back because you put in a return).

    • Labototmized@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Yeah…and how much was that phone? Like $2k USD. That’s not okay in the slightest. It’s okay to get a lemon item from amazon because we all know its cheap crap, but for a $2k phone!!? Hell no. How about google or whoever is manufacturing this thing do some proper QC and R&D and not sell shitty two thousand dollar phones??

      • Silvus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        lemons happen, price and device dont matter. if you male millions of a product a 1% failure rate will still be a fuckton of devices.

    • dantheclamman@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      This wasn’t a lemon. There was a specific flaw in the design that left the oled exposed to debris and it tore

      • Bucket_of_Truth@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        I just got a Pixel 7, had the Fold in my cart originally but thankfully did a little bit of research into foldy phones. One reviewer said to be careful if you go out to a beach or anywhere with sand because it can get into it and damage the inside screen. I go to the beach all the time.

        The seam over the hinge looks hideous in regular use too. Too noticable of a bump. I don’t trust the hinge to stay 100% tight forever either. It reminds me of the first Moto Droid, the keyboard lock often wouldn’t lock so it would just slide freely.

    • FoxBJK@midwest.socialEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      The article goes into great detail to try and explain what happened and why this is very likely a design flaw.