- cross-posted to:
- android@kbin.social
- tech@kbin.social
- cross-posted to:
- android@kbin.social
- tech@kbin.social
“I didn’t do anything to deserve this. The phone sat on my desk while I wrote about it, and I would occasionally stop to poke the screen, take a screenshot, or open and close it. It was never dropped or exposed to a significant amount of grit, nor had it gone through the years of normal wear and tear that phones are expected to survive. This was the lightest possible usage of a phone, and it still broke.”
This can happen to any phone of course — there are numerous threads on reddit of faulty S23 phones that are only days old, and of course the first Galaxy fold phones were problematic — but still. Rough start!
Idk respectfully, devices used for spans of time counting in days is far from “dead”. You got a leamon, it happens.
Talk to me when we see devices dying after a handful of months/ within the first year (when you can’t just immediately get your money back because you put in a return).
This wasn’t a lemon. There was a specific flaw in the design that left the oled exposed to debris and it tore
Yeah…and how much was that phone? Like $2k USD. That’s not okay in the slightest. It’s okay to get a lemon item from amazon because we all know its cheap crap, but for a $2k phone!!? Hell no. How about google or whoever is manufacturing this thing do some proper QC and R&D and not sell shitty two thousand dollar phones??
lemons happen, price and device dont matter. if you male millions of a product a 1% failure rate will still be a fuckton of devices.
The article goes into great detail to try and explain what happened and why this is very likely a design flaw.