Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Wednesday, April 24th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough today.

I fix it, thinks it knows why the Galaxy Fold is having issues.

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The folks over at I Fixit who do Yeoman's work on this sort of thing, have done a tear down of the Samsung

Galaxy Fold and they think they have some ideas about why the device might be having issues. Linked to the tear down in the show notes if you want all of the step-by-step details, but the bottom

line is, I fix it thinks that this is just a device with a fragile build. Key issue is that there is seemingly a lack of

adequate protection against the ingress of debris between the oleed screen and the

bezel, quote,

oleed displays are like tiny, extremely thin

clean rooms you carry around, and any intrusion

or stress on them is likely to kill their delicately balanced work.

You might be able to see where we're going with this.

Knowing how O-Leds react to prying, moisture, oxygen, or nearly anything,

it's plain to see, from reviewers photos alone, that the fold is literally inviting

trouble into its fragile innards, end quote.

That would explain Dieterbone's fold issues, the bumps that started to appear under his screen.

Probably got some dust or something in there, and I fix it notes that it's related to how the hinge works. Okay, but what about the screen

protector that some of the reviewers removed? They're actually not that uncommon.

It turns out the S10 series has the very same screen protectors and there's

been no PR nightmare around that. Problem is says I fix it because the display is

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