---
title: "Despite Fix, Samsung Folding Phone Still Breaks Almost Immediately"
description: "TechCrunch reports that its new and improved review unit of the Samsung Galaxy Fold phone has already started acting up after a single day of use."
date: "2019-09-27"
modified: "2019-09-27"
authors:
  - name: "Victor Tangermann"
    job_title: "Senior Editor"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/samsung-galaxy-fold-phone-still-breaks"
categories:
  - "Robots and Machines"
tags:
  - "Foldable Smartphone"
  - "Samsung"
  - "samsung future"
  - "smartphone"
  - "the digest"
---

# Despite Fix, Samsung Folding Phone Still Breaks Almost Immediately

![TechCrunch reports that its new and improved review unit of the Samsung Galaxy Fold phone has already started acting up after a single day of use.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/samsungs-galaxy-fold-phone-still-breaks.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: Samsung/Victor Tangermann\</em\>*

## Crunch Time

More bad news for Korean tech giant Samsung.

After its revolutionary folding smartphone, the Galaxy Fold, [started breaking immediately](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/early-release-samsung-galaxy-fold-broken>) in April, the company went back to the drawing board. Flooded with negative press, Samsung [admitted](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/samsung-galaxy-fold-admit-improvements>) the phone needed "further improvements."

Now, the new and improved Fold is here — and things are still looking grim. *TechCrunch* [reports that](<https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/26/my-galaxy-fold-display-is-damaged-after-a-day/>) its review unit has already started acting up after a single day of use.

## Amorphous Blob

And it's too late for further tweaks, because the Fold [went on sale](<https://www.cnet.com/news/samsung-galaxy-fold-now-on-sale-in-the-us-for-1980/>) in North America today.

"I pulled the Fold from my pocket while standing in line at CVS after work the other day," wrote *TechCrunch* reviewer Brian Heater. "I opened it up and spotted something new nestled between the lock screen’s flapping butterfly wings. There was a brightly colored, amorphous blob."

## Folding Business

Pictures show that there is indeed a noticeable blemish right in the center of the screen. Heater suggests it could have been the act of "pressing the display to close the device that did it."

Samsung quickly snatched the Fold back from Heater. The company has yet to respond to the incident, but it doesn't look good for the novel device's future.

**READ MORE:** [My Galaxy Fold display is damaged after a day](<https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/26/my-galaxy-fold-display-is-damaged-after-a-day/>) \[*TechCrunch*\]

**More on the Fold:** *[Review Units of Samsung's Folding Phone Are Breaking Almost Immediately](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/early-release-samsung-galaxy-fold-broken>)*

## Author
I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida.

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