There was a report earlier about Samsung postponing the Galaxy fold
launch event in Asia and now the company has just officially announced
that the Galaxy fold launch has been put on hold globally and the new
date will be communicated later on.
The
reason for the change of date is not far fetched as there have been
multiple cases of the review units given to influencers developing
screen issues within 48 hours of use. The screen issue was mostly due to
users inadvertently removing the protective film on the display, which
they thought was just a disposable screen protector similar to the ones
pre-installed on many smartphones nowadays.
Samsung initially
release a statement last week acknowledging the problem and also
promising to investigate and fix it before the April 26 launch date, but
it seems the problem is way more critical than they initially thought
as Samsung has now been forced to delay the launch event.
There
is no new date yet for the Galaxy fold launch but it’s expected to be
within a month’s time. Huawei is also expected to launch its own
foldable smartphone the “Mate X” by June of this year but there have
been a couple of conflicting reports that the launch might be pushed
back to September. Huawei has however dismissed this rumour.