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Samsung Galaxy Fold: Hands on, they are breaking!!!

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Samsung launched the Galaxy Fold in February this year to huge fanfare, and rightly so. It was one of the first folding phones ever, and it was way better than any that came before it. So when Samsung sent out review units of the Galaxy Fold to a bunch of outlets and reviewers a couple of days back, what everyone expected was reviews raving about the Galaxy Fold and the fact that we can fold displays now like it’s no big deal.(incl. me) Turns out, it is   a big deal, because most of the reviewers that got the phone, found out that the display is really finicky on the phones. Some reviewers, including Marques Brownlee (MKBHD on YouTube), reported that the displays on their review units cracked, blacked out, and basically did things displays aren’t supposed to be doing. droid life That’s not all, Mark Gurman from Bloomberg, and Todd Haselton from CNBC also reported on their review units showing glaring issues in the display. Take a look at what’s been happening: MKBHD o...

The SHOWDOWN : Galaxy Fold vs Huawei Mate X

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The future of smartphones...Is it the folding phones ? During the MWC'19 Samsung and Huawei came up with their new folding phones. We saw other companies come up with folding phones during CES'19, but they weren't impressive. Most of us were not happy with the design, but these 2 could change your mind...  Smartphones have grown steadily bigger over the years as screens have increased in size and manufacturers have tried to balance thing s by shrinking down   bezels  so that our devices are still manageable.  Samsung Fold  Samsung has also put in a huge 12GB of RAM, which seems excessive until you consider that the Samsung Galaxy Fold has two screens to transition between and enough screen space for you to use three apps simultaneously, as it showed in the demo. Huawei has gone with 8GB of RAM in the Mate X, which will likely be plenty. Both have 512GB of storage, but only the Huawei Mate X has a MicroSD card slot for expansion. The desi...