Published Jun 27th, 2023 6:50AM EDTI’m a longtime iPhone user but also a fan of foldable phones. Or the idea of having a tablet fold into a phone. So when Google unveiled the Pixel Fold, I thought this was going to be the first foldable handset I’d actually want to use. I wasn’t going to switch from iPhone, however. Instead, I wanted to wait a while for some insanely good Pixel Fold deal, so then I’d use the handset as a foldable tablet.
When Samsung released the first-gen Fold model, some reviewers accidentally destroyed the foldable display. Samsung had to put the launch on pause and redesign the handset to avoid critical failures. That was an embarrassment for Samsung, but the Korean giant took a bullet for the team. The flexible OLED screen died after four days. The bottom 10 pixels of the Pixel Fold went dead first, forming a white line of 100 percent brightness pixels that blazed across the bottom of the screen. The entire left half of the foldable display stopped responding to touch, too, and an hour later, a white gradient started growing upward across the display.has figured out why the Pixel Fold is prone to this type of damage.