Samsung Might Have Delayed the Galaxy Fold
Samsung’s $2,000 foldable phone might not ship on April 26 after all.
The Galaxy Fold made its way into the hands of reviewers a week ago and has had a rough go of it. Multiple devices ran into issues (some self-inflicted), causing questions to surround its upcoming launch. Would Samsung move forward and sell customers a phone that costs $1,960 with legitimate worries around durability? According to the Wall Street Journal, Samsung has postponed launch a few weeks.
The report says that Samsung will pinpoint a new launch timeframe that should happen with the coming weeks. A firm date has not been set, though. If true, there has been a change in heart from Samsung over the past couple of days. Immediately following last week’s string of device issues, Samsung said that it was still targeting April 26. You have to wonder if any of the broken review units they inspected returned bad news.
Over the weekend, Samsung also cancelled media events for the Galaxy Fold in Shanghai and Hong Kong. They didn’t say why they were cancelling, only that they would be rescheduled.
Samsung hasn’t responded yet to this news, so should we hear back, we’ll update this post.
from Droid Life http://bit.ly/2KXL8mv
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