After 13 months, technology editor Zoe Kleinman's Flip3 screen breaks, but can the concept live on?
I'm not the only one - there are dozens of people online sharing similar tales of woe. One recent contributor on Reddit wrote that their brand new device broke within five hours.Folding phones were unveiled to great fanfare in 2019.
I remember sitting in a structure the size of an aircraft hangar in Barcelona that year, with audible gasps asI persuaded an incredibly nervous member of the Chinese tech giant's team to let me hold one, just for a few seconds, for a photo.That same year both firms delayed the launch of their new gadgets, Samsung at the last moment, when earlyBut durability tests since then have showed improvement.
As for the "folding revolution" - well Samsung says it sold almost 10 million folding handsets in 2021 and there is certainly a fanbase for the devices online. However that same year, Apple sold more than 49 million iPhones in just three months,So folding handsets are still a very small chunk of the multi-billion dollar smartphone industry.
The long-time industry watcher is confident Samsung's new phones will have more longevity and, he says, manufacturers have to do something different if they are to compete with the "freight train" of a product that is Apple's iPhone."Do we all need a foldable phone? Absolutely not. It's definitely for people who want something that looks different. The Flip in particular has a strong female bias.
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