Seoul – Samsung Electronics today announced by surprise that on September 6 it will launch the world's first folding smartphone in South Korea, the Galaxy Fold, after the company was forced to delay its release due to technical problems.
With just one day in advance, the company announced in a statement that the product, equipped with a 7.3-inch folding screen called Infinity Flex, will also be available soon in other countries "including France, Germany, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States. . ", and that in certain territories you will have the option of connecting to the last generation 5G network.
In April, and just three days before its launch in the United States, the South Korean company was forced to postpone its commercialization due to a series of failures detected in the touch panel or on the hinges of the devices that were provided for testing several journalists.
The case reminded the fiasco suffered by the company with its Galaxy Note 7 model, which due to a series of battery failures forced Samsung in 2016 to make a massive redial (about 2.5 million devices).
Doubts about the viability of this type of technology also led one of Samsung's main competitors, the Chinese company Huawei, to delay until November the launch of its first folding smartphone, the Mate X.
Samsung says in the statement published today, Thursday, that in recent months "the Galaxy Fold has been refined", a device that according to the president of the company's mobile communication branch, DJ Koh, "defies the barriers of traditional design of smartphones. "
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