The Galaxy Fold has been a notorious disaster for Samsung, and a forewarning that the cutting-edge tech needed to create foldable handsets isn’t quite there yet. Samsung had to postpone the launch of the Fold by five months last year to redesign critical aspects of the screen and hinge to prevent the handset’s display from dying on arrival. Early users discovered that the gaps around the hinge facilitated the entry of debris, which could destroy the fragile plastic display. A second problem concerned the screen’s outer layer, which looked like a user-disposable screen protector.
