It's a silly idea bending a piece of plastic. On the first day you open the phone, it already has a "crease" in the middle. and after bending it thousands of times, it will crack and break. They all do no matter what material they use, NO exceptions.
A better solution would be to separate the screen into two physical halves, and flip/fold them on a mechanical hinge for a nearly edge-less experience. I rather see a thin line in the middle, than an ugly crease then a crack.
More and more I'm starting to think that Huawei was banned not only for security reasons but because they became a threat to the industry as a whole, because if they can be this dominant in isolation they'd be the number one smartphone manufacturer in the world by far today.
Back then they already had a huge market share and their phones were famous for good camera. Once they got banned, Xiaomi quickly started taking their place...
As someone who worked at a Samsung retail store, Foldables made up about 10% of our sales and 70% of our defects. They are horribly unreliable handsets. Would not recommend to anyone.
What I wish there were more of were dual touchscreen phones. I think that's a more interesting form factor than a foldable and I imagine they'd be much more reliable. Microsoft used to make one with the Surface Duo but sadly they don't anymore, and I'm not aware of any similar products out there.
As someone who worked in the phone repair biz for 20+ years, I can tell you the current form of flips/folds are the dumbest idea. The first day you open it there's a crease, and after a couple thousand flips/fold the plastic cracks. It's the classic definition of insanity "Doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result". lol
I switched from a Google Pixel [6] to a Samsung Galaxy [S24] this year, and I absolutely hate it. I switched because I was getting tired of issues I had with the Google Pixel lineup, but now I am wishing I'd gone with a Pixel 8a or something.
Many Samsung foldables users facing durability issue mainly on the display. The display usually broken or dead in arround its foldable line. Second issue is about the original screen guard peel off ofter some times. Usually these issues occured before 1 year old. Nobody dare to buy the new one then.
If they got rid of S Pen support to make the folds thinner while other brands have pen support on BOTH displays and are already way thinner than Samsung's, I would 100 percent jump ship to something else. That would be absolutely pathetic.
Yeah but at this point their market share was so small they're probably all not that worried about losing you as a customer. 6th generations in and foldables including the flippable might account for one 1.5% of Samsung's entire market. But it would be outrageous, it's a shame that these companies can't stick with a niche product. Not everything has to take widespread appeal to be useful.
@@MrOsiz As the other person said, the OnePlus Open/Oppo Find N3 has pen support, as does the Honor Magic V2. Both of those have bigger displays, bigger batteries, and pen support on BOTH the inside and outside while also being thinner and lighter.
Samsung is getting left behind in display technology. BOE made the first mass produced tandom OLED panels for Huawei, they made the panel of the first smartphone to recieve a high comfort certification, and they made much better folding displays for the Oppo-OnePlus phones. On the other hand, TCL is annihilating Samsung on the price to quality front.
Foldable market share is so small.... It's got a disproportionate amount of media attention given the relative size. Even Samsung, maybe 1% of their whole market is foldables and once you remove the flippables, might be a third of 1% at most. A lot of the biggest enthusiasts like Mr Mobile and Shane Craig sometimes seem to suggest that it's the future... It might be part of future, maybe but it's a niche part of the future. It's okay, I like niche devices and I wish there was more support for them but usually these OEMs give up if something doesn't get widespread appeal.
It's actually about 5%, but that doesn't change a lot, you are right in the low sales. (They are selling a bit over 200-250million phones a year, and their fold+flip combined sales about 10-15million, so it's 4-6% in total)
@@TamasKiss-yk4st It is all a matter of growth. If they keep seeing growth they will stick with it even if it is a small part of the market. Samsung may have dropped but the overall market grew 49% so they won't stop investing as long as the market grows.
Samsung foldables gave a critical design flaw and their displays keep breaking, just in my family alone 4 foldables had full screen replacements by Samsung despite being treated well and never dropped.
Can confirm, I have lived and worked in multiple cities in India and Canada and rarely I see anyone using a Foldable device, and the rare cases that I see, they’re usually a secondary device. Nobody have confidence on this form factor yet 😑
@@fazilfaruqui1634I always imagine that like ten foldables sold can result in huge market fluctuations. “omg we sold 10 units last year. That’s a 500% increase in market share!”
@@asamson23Not to mention they depreciate like a rock and if you break a screen you have to basically throw out the whole device or buy another one to swap screen. The tech giants take people for morons in the name of profit. I’m glad people are seeing through the bull…
I feel like updating the design on the Z Fold series would help them tremendously. Their Chinese counterparts are blowing them out the water in the design department. I had a Z Fold 3 back in the day and returned it due to the skinny outer display. While some love that design, I absolutely despise it and refuse to consider another Samsung Fold product until they expand that display. Bringing down the price would also help in my opinion.
The Chinese foldables you mention are are more expensive than samsung foldable and the soft isn't as good as samsung either. But that just from what others have said about the phones
200 episodes is quite insane. Especially as series is genuinely one of my favourite ways to get "tech news", as i find most of the stuff on youtube far far too sensational (Nvidea released WHAT??? And it turns out its a fairly boring hardware update i dont care about). Been loving it since you started this channel and it was basically a game trying to get recommended the youtube shorts. Thank you, and here's to 200 more episodes!
Foldables are more or less the "future" but until it's more affordable and treated as the flagship it will not pick up steam... Too many tradeoffs for most people at the moment
@@Jules-kp7rw That's why I put it in air quotes, Camera and Battery life issues are not things flagship buyers are going to compromise. The reason why the Razr and Razr plus did so well I'd because they are both a value at the price range and offer the benefits of a foldable
Foldable are dead, eu requires phones by 2027 to have tooless replaceable batteries So anyone in the eu won’t see a foldable after 2027 the battery’s are separated in a foldable and with the new law they’ll be struggling just to get all phones to be slim enough yet large enough to fit a replaceable battery bye bye foldables Blame the eu for killing any opportunity for companies to innovate Plus foldable suck the screen can only be made out of plastic and glass doesn’t bend
Samsung really got cocky, and released the same phone 3 years in a row smh... the fold 6 better have some significant device innovation (s pen slot, little to no crease, wider outer screen, pen support for the outer screen, high quality cameras) the galaxy AI stuff won't cut it
I suspect Motorola’s numbers are inflated by business practices likely to hurt them in the long run. I “bought” a Razr because they were just giving them away, only pay the sales tax. Used it for 3 days, decided I didn’t like it, now it sits in a drawer.
It better collapse. Foldable phones were a mistake, and it was clear from the outset. Edit: God im disappointed that the foldable market as a whole isnt collapsing.
This is funny. This is the 200th episode of 'The Friday Checkout," and last week was the 200th episode of "Tech Spurt Weekly" on the Tech Spurt Channel
Samsung stopped innovating with Foldables. The outer screen stayed a remote aspect ratio and inner screen had too much crease. They kept re-releasing the same design for almost 5 generations. All this while the competitors kept pushing the envelope with software and hardware. The result is a huge drop in sales and market share. Not surprised
Its collapsing because its too expensive. in my country it cost $1800. A used Fold 3 cost $800 which is from year 2021. They must lower the price of the older Fold 3 and fold 4 at least. I am not a poor person. I do financially well. But that does not mean I spend money stupidly.
I think foldables makes sense for tablets or even laptops. I think there could be some very cool form factors that could come out of those devices as foldables. And I can see the advantage of my tablet or laptop being able to fold and be more compact in that form. Just have never thought i need my phone to fold because my phone is not big anyway.
I had foldables and switched back. Way too many drawbacks, but especially durability, battery, and weight. Stay away unless you're ready to spend at least €1000 every year on repairs, warranty, or a replacement phone.
Because they barely even innovated more on the fold series, they kept the same identical design for 4 years straight even though there’s better options out there with much bigger cover screens. Samsung has been very conformist over the past few years and settled down like Apple.
The shift is to reliable and cheap due to disposable high end phones, designed to break with expanding batteries. People are really starting to balk after tossing away the third or fourth high end phone.
Samsung blew away the initial lead that they had in foldables. Their Galaxy Fold series is looking basically the same for 4 years now. They could have easily improved the basic flaws in the elongated thick design and cameras but they didn't.
As a flip 4 user myself i can see how its losing marketshare. If it wasnt my pure fascination for technology i would never buy the flip over so many other phones. They are so expensive compared to offerings from moto and the others even in the folding segment, forget the normal candy bar segment while being handicapped in so many ways like durability, battery and features.
I feel while samsung is trying to position itself as a premium brand it's going to keep losing marketshare (atleast in india) The market thinks apple is the premium brand and iphones have been available for way cheaper than samsung phones and honestly the prices for s and z series have been horrible in india. I dislike how apple operates but I end up recommendimg them becase at the price, they just make more sense than the sad expensive Exynos variants that samsung keeps trying to push in india
I have a moto razr myself, and like it. When compared to my friends flip 5, I don't really see any major differences, though the camera or camera software may be slightly better. Also felt like they had some more experimental folding features which I liked. But for the price, the razr was definitely a better deal. That being said, like I alluded to, I think the samsung software has a more to it. And it'll probably get better support officially, and from the community.
Well done 200 episodes 👍. On the Samsung foldables loosing ground , to me it appeared Samsung just sort of stagnated, and was reluctant to to make changes, even when it was fairly obvious, customers wanted some changes to the devices. Then again, maybe Samsung’s actual focus was selling foldable screens and parts to other brands, and the Galaxy fold was just a show piece ?
Me and people like me got bored of waiting for Samsung to continue developing foldables so went to alternatives. I'm an Honor V2 boy now, after 3 Galaxy folds.
Simply put all of the foldable phones are made by the Chinese companies now. Except the Samsung. But by next year, Samsung’s market share will be in the very low single digit. Btw, Motorola is a Chinese company too
8:18 This is a no duh. There is no way to tell the quality of a site, solely from the site's attributes. Anything a content generator can control is something they can falsify. Something that is hard to falsify and reflects quality: Click through rate, time spent on site, and if another site was visited on the same query
I had a Fold 3. I liked it well enough, to be sure. Then the internal screen protector just started to separate from the screen and I had to either upgrade or watch it slowly die. When I upgraded I went with an S23... Not because I wanted a smaller screen. To be sure I would LOVE to go with a foldable and Samsung makes the best foldables. The thing that convinced me to go with a non-foldable is simply the way I use phones. I like to go for walks. I listen to podcasts when I do so I stick my phone in the pocket and go. And those foldables are simply too thick to be comfortable. So if Samsung were to somehow make a foldable that is the same thickness as a non-foldable when closed with a long battery life I'd jump at it. But as is the Folds are simply not progressing far enough for me to use one.
4 years...... oooooof. I have a confession though, i legit forgot about the main channel, this 200 episode milestone just reminded me of that fact 💀. Still remember the good old days of windows phone content on tech altar.
They sat on their laurels for way too long. How can it be that the Fold 2, 3, 4 and 5 all stayed the same form factor, while their competitors managed to do everything Samsung Fold users asked for?
They thought they would make whatever they want and people would still buy them? Make the front with a normal aspect ratio like other phones.. make the phone a bit slimmer (optional, not to be done if the hinge wouldn’t hold up). Better battery life with bigger battery capacity, or good optimisation like the ultra series.. people don’t want to buy secondary option phones..
Personally think it's quite a shame Samsung's foldable business isn't doing well. Having bought a OnePlus Open (I realize I am probably part of the problem here) I think the book foldable form is the best way a smart phone should exist. Larger screen when you want an E-Reader or for media consumption (larger is always better for consuming video content) or smaller when you just need to interact with it like a phone (calls, texting, pictures, etc). As Samsung was the market leader in this category, them failing will lead to other companies who were researching and innovating in the foldable phone space to rethink and drop their investments in it. I want to see better cameras, better stronger hinge designs, better display/glass tech, larger batteries etc come to foldable phones and I'm afraid none of that will happen if Samsung ends up calling it quits on this form factor.
I’m not surprised. It’s a lot of money for a phone with an internal screen that you have to baby and old camera tech. You can buy a decent tablet and S24 Ultra for the same money.
4:42 That candy bar shape and narrowness can be the main contributor to Samsung lost. I'm not trying to denigrate Samsung for the sake of denigration or mockery but the narrowness of the Samsung foldable is ludicrous.
From the brief, a new Apple tv would be something I'm looking forward to from a gaming perspective. Not looked up any specs yet, but I'm wanting to see a unit with active cooling, for when things get too hot and end up thermal throttling. I want to see if it can take more than 3-4 hours of wreckfest, which appears to be Apple arcade's version of crysis 1 on the pc.
I called it in 2022, foldables are bad, once you have one, next you get a regular phone, it's just better, way more practical and durable, most people I know that had a foldable can't stand it no longer than 6 months and go back to a regular phone
Click bait. Losing market share in a rapidly growing sector doesn't mean your business is collapsing. You could still grow exponentially, just not as fast as competitors.
The thing is, foldables are very expensive so not like people can easily jump. I have Samsung foldable and I am very satisfied with it, meaning I won't buy it yearly to update. So this is some weird trap situation for Samsung. Unlike other phone lines, it is not something people can change quickly with providers in a contract. So ofc the numbers show a decline.
I would love to see the foldable devices more mainstream, but it would also need Samsung to repair screens that break along the fold, but they instead say it's 'user damage'.... yeah, I'm sorry, but if it's likely my super sensitive and thin screen is to break, and you're not going to repair it then you bet your ass I'm not going to invest in it. I think this is most people's / customers opinions.
Alternative title: "Samsung’s foldables businesses is folding"
💀
the perfect title
I was screaming at my screen, how he could miss such an opportunity!
For next year, we will see if Samsung is able to.. flip it
Too good
Congrats on the 200 video milestone
From me too
nowadays...you are the one who reminds me its friday already.
Exactly.
agreed
It's a silly idea bending a piece of plastic. On the first day you open the phone, it already has a "crease" in the middle. and after bending it thousands of times, it will crack and break. They all do no matter what material they use, NO exceptions.
A better solution would be to separate the screen into two physical halves, and flip/fold them on a mechanical hinge for a nearly edge-less experience. I rather see a thin line in the middle, than an ugly crease then a crack.
More and more I'm starting to think that Huawei was banned not only for security reasons but because they became a threat to the industry as a whole, because if they can be this dominant in isolation they'd be the number one smartphone manufacturer in the world by far today.
Hear hear. I'm echoing this sentiment
So, you really believed the "national security" bogus arguments? How gullible to you have to be for not seeing this bs?
Thats exactly the reason
Back then they already had a huge market share and their phones were famous for good camera. Once they got banned, Xiaomi quickly started taking their place...
But but but China bad!!
As someone who worked at a Samsung retail store, Foldables made up about 10% of our sales and 70% of our defects. They are horribly unreliable handsets. Would not recommend to anyone.
Exactly why I switched back to a regular phone
What I wish there were more of were dual touchscreen phones. I think that's a more interesting form factor than a foldable and I imagine they'd be much more reliable. Microsoft used to make one with the Surface Duo but sadly they don't anymore, and I'm not aware of any similar products out there.
@@indigomizumi still has moving parts and a hinge. My screens were fine on both models that went bust. It's the hinge that cost me the latest device.
As someone who worked in the phone repair biz for 20+ years, I can tell you the current form of flips/folds are the dumbest idea. The first day you open it there's a crease, and after a couple thousand flips/fold the plastic cracks. It's the classic definition of insanity "Doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result". lol
I switched from a Google Pixel [6] to a Samsung Galaxy [S24] this year, and I absolutely hate it. I switched because I was getting tired of issues I had with the Google Pixel lineup, but now I am wishing I'd gone with a Pixel 8a or something.
Many Samsung foldables users facing durability issue mainly on the display. The display usually broken or dead in arround its foldable line. Second issue is about the original screen guard peel off ofter some times. Usually these issues occured before 1 year old. Nobody dare to buy the new one then.
If they got rid of S Pen support to make the folds thinner while other brands have pen support on BOTH displays and are already way thinner than Samsung's, I would 100 percent jump ship to something else. That would be absolutely pathetic.
Yeah but at this point their market share was so small they're probably all not that worried about losing you as a customer. 6th generations in and foldables including the flippable might account for one 1.5% of Samsung's entire market. But it would be outrageous, it's a shame that these companies can't stick with a niche product. Not everything has to take widespread appeal to be useful.
What foldable has a pen support? I thought it was samsung's exclusive..
@@MrOsiz OnePlus open supports it but the stylus itself isn't sold outside of China.
@@MrOsiz As the other person said, the OnePlus Open/Oppo Find N3 has pen support, as does the Honor Magic V2. Both of those have bigger displays, bigger batteries, and pen support on BOTH the inside and outside while also being thinner and lighter.
Samsung is getting left behind in display technology. BOE made the first mass produced tandom OLED panels for Huawei, they made the panel of the first smartphone to recieve a high comfort certification, and they made much better folding displays for the Oppo-OnePlus phones. On the other hand, TCL is annihilating Samsung on the price to quality front.
Foldable market share is so small.... It's got a disproportionate amount of media attention given the relative size. Even Samsung, maybe 1% of their whole market is foldables and once you remove the flippables, might be a third of 1% at most. A lot of the biggest enthusiasts like Mr Mobile and Shane Craig sometimes seem to suggest that it's the future... It might be part of future, maybe but it's a niche part of the future. It's okay, I like niche devices and I wish there was more support for them but usually these OEMs give up if something doesn't get widespread appeal.
It's actually about 5%, but that doesn't change a lot, you are right in the low sales. (They are selling a bit over 200-250million phones a year, and their fold+flip combined sales about 10-15million, so it's 4-6% in total)
@@TamasKiss-yk4st It is all a matter of growth. If they keep seeing growth they will stick with it even if it is a small part of the market.
Samsung may have dropped but the overall market grew 49% so they won't stop investing as long as the market grows.
Congrats on the 200 videos, this is a big achievement!
Maybe the leak wasn’t an accident, maybe it was a disgruntled employee.
yea like how uploading something on GitHub is accidental?
that's what i thought too. a hero
if only some disgruntled Exxon or BP employees can get inspired from this...
@@blasiankxng they don't want to be Boeing'ed
Samsung foldables gave a critical design flaw and their displays keep breaking, just in my family alone 4 foldables had full screen replacements by Samsung despite being treated well and never dropped.
Lmfao 🤣
personally i don't like foldable
bcz of durability
i always have to take care of my foldable
it's not a pleasant experience
Heard most of those issues were addressed in later versions. Or weren't they?
right, had my Fold 4 just over a year, then the flex broke. never again with this folding piece of sh*t
I have fold 3 still working like new.
I still hope, that perhaps Affinity will release for Linux, or at least work through Proton/Wine easily.
User base is way to small for them to even consider
I want a Lightroom competitor from Affinity.
I had a Samsung air conditioner ad,😂
They make so many different products
@@KingLarbear yeah, in South Korea, one can live in Samsung land that all appliances and even the apartment and condo unit is owned by Samsung.
Can confirm, I have lived and worked in multiple cities in India and Canada and rarely I see anyone using a Foldable device, and the rare cases that I see, they’re usually a secondary device.
Nobody have confidence on this form factor yet 😑
Not only the lack of confidence, but the price of these devices is way too high for most people.
I wouldn't really say there's lack of confidence in the form factor. More of an issue with the price tag
@@Tater_chip_00 The flips are now cheaper though, not many takers of those as well 😐
@@fazilfaruqui1634I always imagine that like ten foldables sold can result in huge market fluctuations.
“omg we sold 10 units last year. That’s a 500% increase in market share!”
@@asamson23Not to mention they depreciate like a rock and if you break a screen you have to basically throw out the whole device or buy another one to swap screen. The tech giants take people for morons in the name of profit. I’m glad people are seeing through the bull…
Congratulations on 200 episodes. Here for the next 200. 🍻
I feel like updating the design on the Z Fold series would help them tremendously. Their Chinese counterparts are blowing them out the water in the design department. I had a Z Fold 3 back in the day and returned it due to the skinny outer display. While some love that design, I absolutely despise it and refuse to consider another Samsung Fold product until they expand that display. Bringing down the price would also help in my opinion.
"back in the day " being less than 2 years ago?
The Chinese foldables you mention are are more expensive than samsung foldable and the soft isn't as good as samsung either. But that just from what others have said about the phones
@@Ajeez1000 lol nope
@@Ajeez1000 Yeah I agree the software on them isn't my favorite, but I genuinely detest Samsung's software even more. I love Oneplus's approach though
@@SaretGnasoh no to what? I believe one of the popular ones was listed at $3000 I can't remember the brand tho
I have watched every single Friday Checkout, as far as I can remember. Congratulations on 200 episodes. Way to go.
It's already been four years... I'm happy to be there since the first episode. Congratulations! 🥳
Congrats on the 200 video milestone! They've been super informative!!
200 episodes is quite insane. Especially as series is genuinely one of my favourite ways to get "tech news", as i find most of the stuff on youtube far far too sensational (Nvidea released WHAT??? And it turns out its a fairly boring hardware update i dont care about).
Been loving it since you started this channel and it was basically a game trying to get recommended the youtube shorts. Thank you, and here's to 200 more episodes!
Foldables are more or less the "future" but until it's more affordable and treated as the flagship it will not pick up steam...
Too many tradeoffs for most people at the moment
the day Apple makes one is the day they will pick up steam, lmao
@@aquaponieee like the Vision Pro did for VR?
@@Jules-kp7rw That's why I put it in air quotes, Camera and Battery life issues are not things flagship buyers are going to compromise. The reason why the Razr and Razr plus did so well I'd because they are both a value at the price range and offer the benefits of a foldable
Foldable are dead, eu requires phones by 2027 to have tooless replaceable batteries
So anyone in the eu won’t see a foldable after 2027 the battery’s are separated in a foldable and with the new law they’ll be struggling just to get all phones to be slim enough yet large enough to fit a replaceable battery bye bye foldables
Blame the eu for killing any opportunity for companies to innovate
Plus foldable suck the screen can only be made out of plastic and glass doesn’t bend
And when the screen doesn't scratch with a fingernail.
Whatever happened to the ARM branch in China that tried an insurrection against the parent company? Does anyone know?
In the foldable sector
Samsung is getting folded
I see what you did there
Been watching Friday Checkout since 1st episode, congrats!
Congratulations on 200 episodes! 🎉
Congrats on 200 episodes!! I find your weekly video very informative and thought provoking. Keep up the great work.
Congratulations on 200 episodes! Here is to the next 2000
“Told you so” moment 😏
Four more years. Congratulations Friday Checkout.🎉
holy crap has it really been 4 years? grats on 200 vids!
I thought 2 years max.. geez time goes way too fast
I realized I can read ebooks in my S24U... no need for foldable phone... which also becomes a huge target for thieves😅😅
Smartphone for me it's already something expensive. Adding a foldable screen that can break easier is not my priority.
Congratulations for the 200th episode. Fridays are not Fridays without these episodes 😅
Samsung really got cocky, and released the same phone 3 years in a row smh... the fold 6 better have some significant device innovation (s pen slot, little to no crease, wider outer screen, pen support for the outer screen, high quality cameras) the galaxy AI stuff won't cut it
I suspect Motorola’s numbers are inflated by business practices likely to hurt them in the long run. I “bought” a Razr because they were just giving them away, only pay the sales tax. Used it for 3 days, decided I didn’t like it, now it sits in a drawer.
Wow that didn't last long.
Did they really think foldable phones was just going to be the next iPhone?
It better collapse. Foldable phones were a mistake, and it was clear from the outset.
Edit: God im disappointed that the foldable market as a whole isnt collapsing.
This is funny. This is the 200th episode of 'The Friday Checkout," and last week was the 200th episode of "Tech Spurt Weekly" on the Tech Spurt Channel
Used to have a Z Fold2 before switching to the LG V60 with its detachable Dual Screen case. Needless to say, it's the best decision I've ever made.
Samsung stopped innovating with Foldables. The outer screen stayed a remote aspect ratio and inner screen had too much crease. They kept re-releasing the same design for almost 5 generations. All this while the competitors kept pushing the envelope with software and hardware. The result is a huge drop in sales and market share. Not surprised
Wow, Feels nice since I've been watching this show from 1st episode , Happy 200 🙂👍
Its collapsing because its too expensive. in my country it cost $1800. A used Fold 3 cost $800 which is from year 2021. They must lower the price of the older Fold 3 and fold 4 at least. I am not a poor person. I do financially well. But that does not mean I spend money stupidly.
I think foldables makes sense for tablets or even laptops. I think there could be some very cool form factors that could come out of those devices as foldables. And I can see the advantage of my tablet or laptop being able to fold and be more compact in that form. Just have never thought i need my phone to fold because my phone is not big anyway.
Hope this forces Samsung to innovate again
So to sell the Fold 2 4th times with low amount of changes.. because their innovation basically died at the first 2 gen..
@@TamasKiss-yk4stthe fold 6 seems to be just like my fold 1. So why upgrade when they're nearly identical
I so love your updates even when I don’t care about a single topic (but I usually do).
Congratulation for this archivment!
Boldog 200. epizódot! 🎉
Huawei makes foldables?
yes
They own several companies
My off my Fridays were incomplete without your videos. Thank you for your amazing service 🎉
I had foldables and switched back. Way too many drawbacks, but especially durability, battery, and weight. Stay away unless you're ready to spend at least €1000 every year on repairs, warranty, or a replacement phone.
Because they barely even innovated more on the fold series, they kept the same identical design for 4 years straight even though there’s better options out there with much bigger cover screens. Samsung has been very conformist over the past few years and settled down like Apple.
The shift is to reliable and cheap due to disposable high end phones, designed to break with expanding batteries. People are really starting to balk after tossing away the third or fourth high end phone.
Samsung desperately needs to unveil a budget/mid-range line-up of flip and fold devices.
Fold series just moved so little yet so much expensive, if Samsung releases similar specs of Huawei, it’d be called fold 8.
Samsung blew away the initial lead that they had in foldables. Their Galaxy Fold series is looking basically the same for 4 years now. They could have easily improved the basic flaws in the elongated thick design and cameras but they didn't.
As a flip 4 user myself i can see how its losing marketshare. If it wasnt my pure fascination for technology i would never buy the flip over so many other phones. They are so expensive compared to offerings from moto and the others even in the folding segment, forget the normal candy bar segment while being handicapped in so many ways like durability, battery and features.
I feel while samsung is trying to position itself as a premium brand it's going to keep losing marketshare (atleast in india)
The market thinks apple is the premium brand and iphones have been available for way cheaper than samsung phones and honestly the prices for s and z series have been horrible in india. I dislike how apple operates but I end up recommendimg them becase at the price, they just make more sense than the sad expensive Exynos variants that samsung keeps trying to push in india
I have a moto razr myself, and like it. When compared to my friends flip 5, I don't really see any major differences, though the camera or camera software may be slightly better. Also felt like they had some more experimental folding features which I liked. But for the price, the razr was definitely a better deal.
That being said, like I alluded to, I think the samsung software has a more to it. And it'll probably get better support officially, and from the community.
Well done 200 episodes 👍.
On the Samsung foldables loosing ground , to me it appeared Samsung just sort of stagnated, and was reluctant to to make changes, even when it was fairly obvious, customers wanted some changes to the devices.
Then again, maybe Samsung’s actual focus was selling foldable screens and parts to other brands, and the Galaxy fold was just a show piece ?
So basically, nothing happened this week
Congrats on 200 quality episodes 👏👏
Me and people like me got bored of waiting for Samsung to continue developing foldables so went to alternatives. I'm an Honor V2 boy now, after 3 Galaxy folds.
Simply put all of the foldable phones are made by the Chinese companies now. Except the Samsung. But by next year, Samsung’s market share will be in the very low single digit. Btw, Motorola is a Chinese company too
fridays incomplete without this dose
8:18 This is a no duh. There is no way to tell the quality of a site, solely from the site's attributes. Anything a content generator can control is something they can falsify. Something that is hard to falsify and reflects quality: Click through rate, time spent on site, and if another site was visited on the same query
I had a Fold 3. I liked it well enough, to be sure. Then the internal screen protector just started to separate from the screen and I had to either upgrade or watch it slowly die. When I upgraded I went with an S23... Not because I wanted a smaller screen. To be sure I would LOVE to go with a foldable and Samsung makes the best foldables. The thing that convinced me to go with a non-foldable is simply the way I use phones. I like to go for walks. I listen to podcasts when I do so I stick my phone in the pocket and go. And those foldables are simply too thick to be comfortable.
So if Samsung were to somehow make a foldable that is the same thickness as a non-foldable when closed with a long battery life I'd jump at it. But as is the Folds are simply not progressing far enough for me to use one.
4 years...... oooooof. I have a confession though, i legit forgot about the main channel, this 200 episode milestone just reminded me of that fact 💀. Still remember the good old days of windows phone content on tech altar.
They sat on their laurels for way too long. How can it be that the Fold 2, 3, 4 and 5 all stayed the same form factor, while their competitors managed to do everything Samsung Fold users asked for?
I'm so surprised it's been 4 years since I've never missed a single episode of your show from the 1st episode. Go further.
They thought they would make whatever they want and people would still buy them?
Make the front with a normal aspect ratio like other phones.. make the phone a bit slimmer (optional, not to be done if the hinge wouldn’t hold up). Better battery life with bigger battery capacity, or good optimisation like the ultra series.. people don’t want to buy secondary option phones..
Personally think it's quite a shame Samsung's foldable business isn't doing well. Having bought a OnePlus Open (I realize I am probably part of the problem here) I think the book foldable form is the best way a smart phone should exist. Larger screen when you want an E-Reader or for media consumption (larger is always better for consuming video content) or smaller when you just need to interact with it like a phone (calls, texting, pictures, etc). As Samsung was the market leader in this category, them failing will lead to other companies who were researching and innovating in the foldable phone space to rethink and drop their investments in it.
I want to see better cameras, better stronger hinge designs, better display/glass tech, larger batteries etc come to foldable phones and I'm afraid none of that will happen if Samsung ends up calling it quits on this form factor.
I’m not surprised. It’s a lot of money for a phone with an internal screen that you have to baby and old camera tech.
You can buy a decent tablet and S24 Ultra for the same money.
200😮😮 wow congratulations 🎉🎉
4:42 That candy bar shape and narrowness can be the main contributor to Samsung lost. I'm not trying to denigrate Samsung for the sake of denigration or mockery but the narrowness of the Samsung foldable is ludicrous.
Yeeeee friday checkout! One of my favorite things about fridays 🎉🎉🎉
From the brief, a new Apple tv would be something I'm looking forward to from a gaming perspective. Not looked up any specs yet, but I'm wanting to see a unit with active cooling, for when things get too hot and end up thermal throttling. I want to see if it can take more than 3-4 hours of wreckfest, which appears to be Apple arcade's version of crysis 1 on the pc.
Who would buy foldables anyway
So for 200 weeks you have reminded me that "weekend " has arrived
Congratulations on 200th episode!
200... Wow. Watching you since very long time now
Fingers crossed 🤞 for the Z Fold 6 series!
Thanks
I called it in 2022, foldables are bad, once you have one, next you get a regular phone, it's just better, way more practical and durable, most people I know that had a foldable can't stand it no longer than 6 months and go back to a regular phone
Foldables collapsing is not really a surprise.
Samsung needs to bring us 7"-11" Fold n' Roll phones AND FAST.
Is time for samsung to pull up their socks as they are facing a real competition in a foldables 😅
Nobody wants to buy expensive shit only to be replaced a year later.
Click bait. Losing market share in a rapidly growing sector doesn't mean your business is collapsing. You could still grow exponentially, just not as fast as competitors.
People want wider non foldable phones, not foldables.
bring back NOTE SERIES with foldable mechanism
Been here since the oppo days! You're now a part of my schedule 😅
We need a budget foldable...I mean...I need a budget foldable
The thing is, foldables are very expensive so not like people can easily jump. I have Samsung foldable and I am very satisfied with it, meaning I won't buy it yearly to update. So this is some weird trap situation for Samsung. Unlike other phone lines, it is not something people can change quickly with providers in a contract. So ofc the numbers show a decline.
Man until they don't just break from usage I'm going to stick to what works
maybe if samsung actually made updates to the cover screen...
200 already? time flies so fast
Will they add an m4 chip to the Apple TV and boost the price to 1,500 but still not put the chips in any Mac’s like they did with the iPad?
Samsung : make a product super expensive that will reduce their market reach
Also samsung : 😮
I would love to see the foldable devices more mainstream, but it would also need Samsung to repair screens that break along the fold, but they instead say it's 'user damage'.... yeah, I'm sorry, but if it's likely my super sensitive and thin screen is to break, and you're not going to repair it then you bet your ass I'm not going to invest in it. I think this is most people's / customers opinions.
Thanks for the vid