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the Galaxy fold has been delayed and as somebody who has had this phone in their hand and using it for the better part of a week there's a lot to talk about the phone screen the main one underneath is plastic you can't bend glass so something else has to be used it was a plastic polymer that makes this screen sort of function and work it also Bend and flex to protect that plastic screen from scratching Sampson put another layer of plastic on it so reviewers got these in our hands and figured I'm gonna peel that off as well problem with that was kind of Bork the phones sort of made them stop working and then gave issues with the screen functioning properly and things just stopped working all together with the devices and we saw big tech reviewers have those problems and sort of one of the last issues that we saw was the design of the hinge thing can get stuck and caught in there working its way up to the front create a little bubble under the screen and that eventually made the phone stop working so how simpson was going to respond to these issues if it all was a real big question mark you know someone who has this phone when i've been asked by a lot of media outlets and sort of friends that are in the industry samsung answered that question they said they're delaying the launch of the Galaxy fold they're stopping taking pre-orders to evaluate what's going on and presumably to fix the problem there are two very clear schools of thought one is to say good for you Samsung before device ships out to the public you are fixing inherent problems but perhaps a flawed design the other side of that coin is how could a phone with these inherent flaws ever make it out to reviewers hands in the first place and as somebody who's been using the phone had in their hands again for a week there's a lot more to the phone than the headlines there's a lot more to the design than the story you've been reading let's talk a little bit more about the Galaxy fold and see the bigger picture the Galaxy fold has kind of been my money Morphin travel buddy for the better part of a week I started off in New York flew with it to Toronto for half a second and then all the way back down to Southern California and probably like you and you saw the announcement for the fold and unpacked its kind of unsure about it what the phone was gonna feel like in look like in your hand inserted from the very first second that I picked up the phone it felt like something different so first it feels premium for two thousand bucks you would expect it to feel premium if you could say any phone feels like a $2,000 phone it would be the fold I mean even the satisfying search sound it makes when it clicks open to the clasping sound it makes in the magnets clothes and it closes the phone up everything about it looks and feels really premium may not be the biggest fan of like the Martian green it's kind of look at me for an already look at new phone but holding this phone and using it on a daily basis I definitely feel like I'm holding something in the higher echelon of sort of tech value and so there haven't been that many first the mobile industry like for a while so when I picked up the galaxy fold and opened it up for the first time it was a really awesome feeling sort of see a screen that moved in morphs as I opened it up and it was kind of reassuring that it wasn't like a bad screen either it's a Samson screen it's plastic but it looks like a Samsung screen so colors look braze it's dark like it expect from something that has OLED but the feeling of folding a screen and putting it back in your pocket and then taking it out and opening it up it's really cool and you can't get that feeling sort of that Oh like giant eyes from just you know reading about it something you have to experience an experience it for yourself it's hard not to think that this is the way all things are gonna go just probably not for a very long time continuity is a big part of the galaxy fold and that's where you do something on the outside it shows up on the inside and then vice versa is really cool and works incredibly fast and I initially thought that was a Samsung thing but it's actually baked into Android Pi so this is again where things were awesome and things I've never seen before I could open up Chrome and be looking at a website and open this up in that same website exactly the spot in the article I was at shows up on the big screen if I'm framing a picture I open it up it's going to be there as well almost every app say for Twitter that I tried worked and it was really cool so for the sake of a new design maybe it would have been easier for Samsung to change a lot of the features that have worked with you well on their flagships so I like that the cameras are essentially the same cameras that come from the galaxy s 10 plus so you get those three sort of different lenses you get the standard zoom at a wide angle then using the giant screen as a viewfinder again is a really cool experience so if you're wondering why I'm so positive on the galaxy fold it's not just the fold it's that I'm really excited about foldable devices in general I think a lot of the negative coverage coming out of the fall to sort of so lead the opinions on what foldable phones can be now I'm not making excuses for Samsung these problems should never made it to production we should never have device in our hands that are breaking the way that the fold units are but the potential of what the fold can be and what it represents is a really cool place to be so all the issues the Galaxy fold aside it's made me believe in the future of foldable phones even more and there's a lot of different ways this could go it could be devices that fold out like this it could be devices that fold the opposite way like the mate X it could be like Jamie's concept we've seen that it's a trifold design using this phone and having access to that bigger screen not necessarily carrying around a giant phone in my pocket has been absolutely awesome seeing Instagram almost look like a real desktop app then you have to use continuity and jump in between the screens is a really awesome experience and maybe that's why my gut shot reaction people sort of complaining about the crease was you're getting a foldable phone you're looking at things that can do more than a solid slab of glass and that's why I'm excited so in the week I've had this phone being able to take it to the gym and watch Netflix on the treadmill without having to carry an iPad with me has been absolutely awesome when I want a bigger viewfinder take pictures without looking like I'm holding a giant tablet with me has been incredible battery life has been awesome as well too got two different spots to store battery there is a really strong future with foldable devices and before you can get to that future you've got to take that first step and the galaxy folded definitely took that step and maybe that step was more than a stumble but don't remember the first step on that marathon all anybody's gonna remember is when you crossed the finish line and we're far from that mile 26 but we are on the way to the future of changing designs there are a lot of things that make the galaxy fold unique and once your weird things happen with it as a lot of people have come out of the woodwork YouTube work especially with opinions based on what they've seen and what they've read and I do that as well as serve the nature of YouTube that offers a platform for commentary on things that's part of the beauty of being able to make videos something about the galaxy fold is just so different than the other devices that I've ever held admittedly before I went in to actually use the phone I thought it seemed like a silly concept but it seemed like something that not like people were going to use then I started actually using the phone and realized there's a lot of potential in the device I started to see how the future of mobile communications was going to go or at least an option for how it could go and the galaxy fold as flawed as it might be was a first step on that direction so as you decide whether or not you want to shell out the almost two thousand dollars to buy this one or maybe even more for another company's foldable phone I encourage you to find one to go to a store they might have a display unit and try it because it's such a new form factor they think you need to have it in your hands to see the screen unfold and actually see that extra real estate and then evaluate if it's the right thing for you or not what do you look to get a phone right now you've got different companies with their different offerings and you could pick which rectangle you like the best right now a device you can buy or presumably by very soon you're essentially limited to the galaxy fold but imagine a future where there's a lot of foldable devices to different form factors maybe LG's got one that folds the opposite way you've got wall ways made X Apple sit this one out for a few years and finally gets into the market with the eye fold or the iPhone folds that maybe folds two or three ways and it replaces the iPad the potential for what a morphing form-factor can do is far greater than one that's already set as just a record the future of foldable phones obviously isn't here new designs have even been thought of yet new use cases new apps and take advantage of these new form factors probably are still in the back of some developers mind Sigma dorm room somewhere but what this can be and what it represents I still believe is the future and now we're finally on that path