The Reality of Samsung's Foldable Phone: A Story of Rushed Innovation

In recent weeks, we've reported that Samsung is not the only company working on a foldable device. Huawei and Jemmye (also known as Sammy) have been secretly developing their own foldable phones, which could potentially surpass Samsung's product in terms of innovation and consumer appeal. This news has sent shockwaves through the tech community, with many wondering how Samsung will respond to its competitors' advancements.

The Reason Behind Samsung's Rushed Release

According to CEO DJ Koh (not Cole), Samsung is working on a foldable phone that may be unveiled at their developer conference in November 2018. While there's no confirmation on whether this phone will be available for purchase by consumers, it's clear that Samsung is eager to show off its latest technology and get ahead of the competition. However, this focus on being first has led to concerns that Samsung may rush its product, sacrificing innovation and practicality in the process.

The Problem with Being First

While being the first to market can be an attractive selling point, it's not always a guarantee of success. In fact, rushing a product into production can often lead to problems down the line. For example, rumors suggest that Samsung's foldable phone may feature a bendable battery, which could be prone to damage and other issues. Furthermore, the company's emphasis on being first has led to accusations that it prioritizes innovation over consumer needs.

The Cost of Being First

In reality, being first to market is not always as valuable as consumers think it is. In fact, many products that were touted as "firsts" turned out to be flawed or impractical. For example, the original iPhone was praised for its sleek design and innovative features, but it also had a limited battery life and no 3G connectivity. Similarly, Samsung's Galaxy S6 Edge was touted as a revolutionary new phone with a curved screen, but it also had a number of other issues, including a poorly designed charging system.

The Future of Foldable Phones

So what can we expect from foldable phones in the future? While they may not be as practical or appealing to consumers as Samsung would like to think, there are still some potential benefits to these devices. For example, they could potentially offer more screen real estate and a more portable design. However, until Samsung (or any other company) can demonstrate that their foldable phones are both innovative and practical, it's unlikely that they will be widely adopted.

The Foldable Phone: A Demo from BOE

Recently, Ben Gaskin of today shared a tweet that showed a demo of a foldable device from BOE. The device in question is not a Samsung phone, but rather a demonstration of the technology that Samsung and other companies are working on. While it's unclear what the final product will look like, this demo suggests that the foldable phone is still in its early stages of development.

The Poll: Do You Want a Foldable Phone?

We recently put out a poll to our community asking if you'd be interested in purchasing a foldable phone. The results were overwhelmingly negative, with many respondents expressing concerns about the practicality and reliability of these devices. However, it's clear that technology is advancing at a rapid pace, and it will be interesting to see how consumers respond to these new devices in the future.

The Conclusion: Samsung Needs to Focus on Quality

In conclusion, while Samsung's foldable phone may be an exciting development, it's clear that the company needs to focus on quality and practicality over innovation and being first. Until they can demonstrate that their product is both desirable and functional, consumers will likely remain skeptical about these devices. As for the rest of us, we'll have to wait and see how these foldable phones turn out in practice.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enOh Sammy Sammy Sammy Sammy you're gonna do that thing that you do huh you're gonna make a Samsung like mistake get dealing tech clothes in a way that doesn't suck hit that subscribe button and turn on notifications so you don't miss the next episode Oh what's going on guys welcome back frontpage tech of course show that gives you all his tech news from one geek that is me to another good as you happy Tuesday yeah we were supposed to do a show yesterday which was Monday but we did not because the storm happened in my general region vicinity place and turned the lights off Thunder happened and then soon came the darkness and then all last night it was complete darkness because it was Labor Day nobody was working so I was in the dark and it was 95 degrees in here and I thought about ending it all but I didn't and I'm really glad I didn't because then I wouldn't be able to do this the thing I love so much news ok so story numero uno listen I didn't want to talk about this but like a lot of people keep asking me to talk about it and even though I don't want to do it I am a man of the people and I will do with the people command we got another pixel 3xl leak you probably heard about it at this point I just want to give you my two cents let's be clear here this was not a leak these are not lease anymore these are like a happen nothing leaked it just happened I guess some stupid idiot left his pixel 3xl in a lift and the driver was like wait is that my phone he picked up the phone looked at it's got a big notch on it the face and all face the googly I was looking back at him and he was like ah this is not my phone this is a picture free Excel Google I'm question do you think do you think I am a fool because I am not listening to me Google what in the hell like first of all if you guys like poet leaked this is crazy how does this keep happening you listen for an idiot these hurt this is not accidental this keeps happening because Google lets it happen how do I know number one it's having a bunch number two you left it some dude left an unreleased phone in the back of a lift of all things third of all the lyft driver is also a pixel user are you kidding me right now everyone knows you know it I know it that no one uses these devices like seven people have pixel to excels the driver had a pixel to excel as you can see in one of the articles here pixel to excel driver own pixel to excel these are not leaks Google is doing this on purpose and I know you're like well John if you say they're doing it on purpose does that mean this is a fake phone that this phone doesn't exist no the pixel 3xl is a real phone it's a real spree phone and this is a real marketing strategy Google there's no way in hell did all these things keep lining up and this phone just keeps getting out there in the ether and you aren't behind it you're a bunch of and you know no one's gonna buy your goddamn phone cuz no one bought it before now you're gonna create this stupid viral marketing strategy be like oh they're gonna buy the phone now no no one will buy this oh and side note Thank You reddit for helping me say I told you so without me having to say it okay now let's talk about oneplus and this is actually kind of good news and first of all I just want to say I won't apologize for the sweat but this happening is hot in here now the screaming definitely didn't help and I know you're like John take your hoodie off you idiot but I can't you see because then you will see the mess that is the swamp underneath my armpits what has happened is now this is not oh this is not a wardrobe option that I chose this wasn't a choice now this is a diaper it's a sweat diaper alright I need it now okay so we have a leak for the one plus six this is all coming from a Chinese leaker apparently which that ain't special that all comes from some Chinese leaker somewhere they are the soldiers the Warriors at the forefront of the leaking community because everybody knows that we all need the information before it comes out it's all interesting before it comes out because once the phones are out nobody buys unfortunately though isn't the case fully with the oneplus they do pretty well and here supposedly is the box for the oneplus 62 things to note here number one it has that good old water droplet knotch thing that everyone's raving about which of course we all saw coming if you pay attention because as is with tradition oneplus phones typically look like the model before it that came out from Oppo which is the parent company for oneplus and as you can see here this is the Oppo 17 pro and it's got the same thing it looks the same second of all according to this box in display fingerprint scanner all right all right listen the only thing this box is missing the only thing it doesn't tell us is what we typically expect from the T upgrades of oneplus somewhere on the box just a line that says something like yes a little faster than the last one okay so here's the thing I'm typically usually impressed by almost everything oneplus does have had one plus products before I tend to love them and it's because of the expectations that they set right if these were $1000 devices that's always would start to nitpick and start judging on the decisions oneplus is made but because it's like $500 $600 in that price range it leaves a lot of leeway for us as consumers to forgive a lot of things that these phones are missing or different things they've chose to done chose to do toasted on do don't dun du dun dum hmm either way I'm excited ish not WB clear I'm not excited enough to buy the phone not gonna buy it but I'm excited for you guys to spend your hard-earned 600 bucks on something also oneplus that notch we see you the Alpha water-drop notch we know why you did it it's because of the notch was any bigger you'd know we'd come straight on this show and draw face on it that's why there's no other explanation as to why you would do that also can I just can we just like differentiate I don't think this is not just is more of a camera cut out can we agree comment section below I think we agree if we don't I don't care all right now let's talk about Samsung they are about to up that's the bad news the good news is that we all get to watch it happen okay so you've been watching this show for an amount of time like months amount of time and you will know we have talked a bunch about the upcoming foldable galaxy device from Samsung in fact it's been a thing like there was rumblings about this phone all the way back in 2014 but it was scheduled for release or an unveiling or what we're gonna see the thing in 2019 next year we're gonna get the phone's gonna blue but in the past couple weeks on the show as you know we've reported that Samsung turns out not to be the only company working on a foldable device because Huawei both Huawei and shall me are like tickle in the butthole of Samsung they're creeping up they are working on their own foldable devices and it kind of started to look like they were gonna get done before Samsung was done with theirs so in episodes where I mentioned that Huawei and jemmye we're working on their own stuff I was like well Samsung's gonna hurry up and yeah that's exactly what's about to happen and I guess it kind of makes sense so believe it or not this might be hard truth for some of you this is not about Samsung innovating and making a really great product that consumers are gonna love because you know it I know it ain't nobody gonna buy this phone for Samsung this is about being able to walk onstage and say that they were first in fact last month sometime when Samsung had to report their earnings to their shareholders and be like yeah they're low but don't worry we're gonna make more money next year because we have an upcoming futuristic device that we're working on aka the foldable galaxy thing it is all about being first here to Samsung that might be all that matters so what we're looking at now is according to CEO DJ Cole we might be seeing this phone for the first time at Samsung's developer conference in November for those of you the don't do months real good real good like that is this year 2018 now to be clear there's no confirmation on whether or not you the consumer are going to be able to buy this phone in November but we will most likely be able to see it now if you're interested if you're wondering like hey what does a foldable phone look like in 2018 funny you should ask that this is a tweet from Ben Gaskin from today he tweeted this out it's apparently a demo of a foldable device from BOE and yeah if I had just a smidge of excitement before for a foldable phone this it's gone I killed it it's gone dead listen I get it right I understand that is not a Samsung phone that does not help us get a better look at what Samsung is working on themselves but I don't personally think it matters if it has a Samsung logo on it or not it's not practical nobody wants these foldable devices you let me know in the comment section below a little bit of a poll here for this community let us know in the comments if you are interested in a foldable phone I don't want to hear if oh I think this is cool know everything that everything based on technology is cool we can talk to people we have these little discs out and we can move from space back to earth talk to people it's insane yes technology it's all cool I want to know would you spend money on a foldable phone cool is different from practical do you see the issue here Samsung my problem is I'm sure it's gonna be great it's gonna Sam sung you have your Samsung money but I'm sure this is just gonna be like oh look we have all this money look what we can do technology's cool right it goes whoop whoop it bends it folds that's amazing because we're Samsung being able to do it is just not good enough it's not going to sell I don't think I have to like predict that it's just not going to I think you know it deep down there in your little heart I'd rather Samsung just work on this if they are gonna put this out which they are they've been working on it for years I'd rather they just make it really really good good enough to convince us to consumers to buy the phone but instead that's not what they're doing they're focused too much on being first and they're going to rush this thing keep in mind this thing has a bendable battery inside of it and I don't know about you I don't have a lot of confidence in Samsung's bending batteries no on me listen this is a mistake it is going to be a mistake to rush this thing to push it out too fast just because some other companies are on your butthole I get it you want to be first but you should just make a good product that's all that's all I want you know it doesn't matter doesn't matter it doesn't matter because it's not gonna sell so you know that's the show hopefully you liked you learned something if you did hit the like button hey my stupid face now hit the dislike button I will see you tomorrow subscribe all that stuff so you don't miss the next one yeah bye youOh Sammy Sammy Sammy Sammy you're gonna do that thing that you do huh you're gonna make a Samsung like mistake get dealing tech clothes in a way that doesn't suck hit that subscribe button and turn on notifications so you don't miss the next episode Oh what's going on guys welcome back frontpage tech of course show that gives you all his tech news from one geek that is me to another good as you happy Tuesday yeah we were supposed to do a show yesterday which was Monday but we did not because the storm happened in my general region vicinity place and turned the lights off Thunder happened and then soon came the darkness and then all last night it was complete darkness because it was Labor Day nobody was working so I was in the dark and it was 95 degrees in here and I thought about ending it all but I didn't and I'm really glad I didn't because then I wouldn't be able to do this the thing I love so much news ok so story numero uno listen I didn't want to talk about this but like a lot of people keep asking me to talk about it and even though I don't want to do it I am a man of the people and I will do with the people command we got another pixel 3xl leak you probably heard about it at this point I just want to give you my two cents let's be clear here this was not a leak these are not lease anymore these are like a happen nothing leaked it just happened I guess some stupid idiot left his pixel 3xl in a lift and the driver was like wait is that my phone he picked up the phone looked at it's got a big notch on it the face and all face the googly I was looking back at him and he was like ah this is not my phone this is a picture free Excel Google I'm question do you think do you think I am a fool because I am not listening to me Google what in the hell like first of all if you guys like poet leaked this is crazy how does this keep happening you listen for an idiot these hurt this is not accidental this keeps happening because Google lets it happen how do I know number one it's having a bunch number two you left it some dude left an unreleased phone in the back of a lift of all things third of all the lyft driver is also a pixel user are you kidding me right now everyone knows you know it I know it that no one uses these devices like seven people have pixel to excels the driver had a pixel to excel as you can see in one of the articles here pixel to excel driver own pixel to excel these are not leaks Google is doing this on purpose and I know you're like well John if you say they're doing it on purpose does that mean this is a fake phone that this phone doesn't exist no the pixel 3xl is a real phone it's a real spree phone and this is a real marketing strategy Google there's no way in hell did all these things keep lining up and this phone just keeps getting out there in the ether and you aren't behind it you're a bunch of and you know no one's gonna buy your goddamn phone cuz no one bought it before now you're gonna create this stupid viral marketing strategy be like oh they're gonna buy the phone now no no one will buy this oh and side note Thank You reddit for helping me say I told you so without me having to say it okay now let's talk about oneplus and this is actually kind of good news and first of all I just want to say I won't apologize for the sweat but this happening is hot in here now the screaming definitely didn't help and I know you're like John take your hoodie off you idiot but I can't you see because then you will see the mess that is the swamp underneath my armpits what has happened is now this is not oh this is not a wardrobe option that I chose this wasn't a choice now this is a diaper it's a sweat diaper alright I need it now okay so we have a leak for the one plus six this is all coming from a Chinese leaker apparently which that ain't special that all comes from some Chinese leaker somewhere they are the soldiers the Warriors at the forefront of the leaking community because everybody knows that we all need the information before it comes out it's all interesting before it comes out because once the phones are out nobody buys unfortunately though isn't the case fully with the oneplus they do pretty well and here supposedly is the box for the oneplus 62 things to note here number one it has that good old water droplet knotch thing that everyone's raving about which of course we all saw coming if you pay attention because as is with tradition oneplus phones typically look like the model before it that came out from Oppo which is the parent company for oneplus and as you can see here this is the Oppo 17 pro and it's got the same thing it looks the same second of all according to this box in display fingerprint scanner all right all right listen the only thing this box is missing the only thing it doesn't tell us is what we typically expect from the T upgrades of oneplus somewhere on the box just a line that says something like yes a little faster than the last one okay so here's the thing I'm typically usually impressed by almost everything oneplus does have had one plus products before I tend to love them and it's because of the expectations that they set right if these were $1000 devices that's always would start to nitpick and start judging on the decisions oneplus is made but because it's like $500 $600 in that price range it leaves a lot of leeway for us as consumers to forgive a lot of things that these phones are missing or different things they've chose to done chose to do toasted on do don't dun du dun dum hmm either way I'm excited ish not WB clear I'm not excited enough to buy the phone not gonna buy it but I'm excited for you guys to spend your hard-earned 600 bucks on something also oneplus that notch we see you the Alpha water-drop notch we know why you did it it's because of the notch was any bigger you'd know we'd come straight on this show and draw face on it that's why there's no other explanation as to why you would do that also can I just can we just like differentiate I don't think this is not just is more of a camera cut out can we agree comment section below I think we agree if we don't I don't care all right now let's talk about Samsung they are about to up that's the bad news the good news is that we all get to watch it happen okay so you've been watching this show for an amount of time like months amount of time and you will know we have talked a bunch about the upcoming foldable galaxy device from Samsung in fact it's been a thing like there was rumblings about this phone all the way back in 2014 but it was scheduled for release or an unveiling or what we're gonna see the thing in 2019 next year we're gonna get the phone's gonna blue but in the past couple weeks on the show as you know we've reported that Samsung turns out not to be the only company working on a foldable device because Huawei both Huawei and shall me are like tickle in the butthole of Samsung they're creeping up they are working on their own foldable devices and it kind of started to look like they were gonna get done before Samsung was done with theirs so in episodes where I mentioned that Huawei and jemmye we're working on their own stuff I was like well Samsung's gonna hurry up and yeah that's exactly what's about to happen and I guess it kind of makes sense so believe it or not this might be hard truth for some of you this is not about Samsung innovating and making a really great product that consumers are gonna love because you know it I know it ain't nobody gonna buy this phone for Samsung this is about being able to walk onstage and say that they were first in fact last month sometime when Samsung had to report their earnings to their shareholders and be like yeah they're low but don't worry we're gonna make more money next year because we have an upcoming futuristic device that we're working on aka the foldable galaxy thing it is all about being first here to Samsung that might be all that matters so what we're looking at now is according to CEO DJ Cole we might be seeing this phone for the first time at Samsung's developer conference in November for those of you the don't do months real good real good like that is this year 2018 now to be clear there's no confirmation on whether or not you the consumer are going to be able to buy this phone in November but we will most likely be able to see it now if you're interested if you're wondering like hey what does a foldable phone look like in 2018 funny you should ask that this is a tweet from Ben Gaskin from today he tweeted this out it's apparently a demo of a foldable device from BOE and yeah if I had just a smidge of excitement before for a foldable phone this it's gone I killed it it's gone dead listen I get it right I understand that is not a Samsung phone that does not help us get a better look at what Samsung is working on themselves but I don't personally think it matters if it has a Samsung logo on it or not it's not practical nobody wants these foldable devices you let me know in the comment section below a little bit of a poll here for this community let us know in the comments if you are interested in a foldable phone I don't want to hear if oh I think this is cool know everything that everything based on technology is cool we can talk to people we have these little discs out and we can move from space back to earth talk to people it's insane yes technology it's all cool I want to know would you spend money on a foldable phone cool is different from practical do you see the issue here Samsung my problem is I'm sure it's gonna be great it's gonna Sam sung you have your Samsung money but I'm sure this is just gonna be like oh look we have all this money look what we can do technology's cool right it goes whoop whoop it bends it folds that's amazing because we're Samsung being able to do it is just not good enough it's not going to sell I don't think I have to like predict that it's just not going to I think you know it deep down there in your little heart I'd rather Samsung just work on this if they are gonna put this out which they are they've been working on it for years I'd rather they just make it really really good good enough to convince us to consumers to buy the phone but instead that's not what they're doing they're focused too much on being first and they're going to rush this thing keep in mind this thing has a bendable battery inside of it and I don't know about you I don't have a lot of confidence in Samsung's bending batteries no on me listen this is a mistake it is going to be a mistake to rush this thing to push it out too fast just because some other companies are on your butthole I get it you want to be first but you should just make a good product that's all that's all I want you know it doesn't matter doesn't matter it doesn't matter because it's not gonna sell so you know that's the show hopefully you liked you learned something if you did hit the like button hey my stupid face now hit the dislike button I will see you tomorrow subscribe all that stuff so you don't miss the next one yeah bye you\n"