“I didn’t do anything to deserve this. The phone sat on my desk while I wrote about it, and I would occasionally stop to poke the screen, take a screenshot, or open and close it. It was never dropped or exposed to a significant amount of grit, nor had it gone through the years of normal wear and tear that phones are expected to survive. This was the lightest possible usage of a phone, and it still broke.”

This can happen to any phone of course — there are numerous threads on reddit of faulty S23 phones that are only days old, and of course the first Galaxy fold phones were problematic — but still. Rough start!

  • dantheclamman@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’d really like one. The idea of a pocketable tablet sounds appealing. But the durability and expense issues leave me unwilling to take the risk

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        1 year ago

        That’s a great usage! It’d be cool if there were apps and games that were designed for the two screens like DS games were, but it’s probably too niche of a market for most apps to target. Though perhaps someday it’ll be more common.