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Originally Posted by tomsem
Note that it is not yet available for pre-order. Anyone want to predict a ship date? Fall, perhaps?
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Mother's Day.
No, seriously.
April 26th, just in time for Mother's day...
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019...e-galaxy-fold/
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The device will start at a whopping $1,980 and arrive on April 26. It'll hit Europe on May 3 and start at €2,000. Samsung says it will sell both LTE and 5G-capable variants, but has only confirmed AT&T and T-Mobile as carrier partners in US. The electronics giant detailed the Android phone-tablet hybrid at an event in San Francisco, where it also unveiled its new flagship Galaxy S10 phones.
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One area where it will face competition is with the upcoming wave of Windows tablets with built-in 5G wireless: forgo the folding, save half the price.
There's other folding designs coming.
Samsung pre-announced because Huawei is working on a folding phone, presumably with the stolen Samsung folding screen tech:
https://ktla.com/2018/12/01/samsungs...sold-to-china/
TCL is showing a phone that bends into a wrist band:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...orn-wrist.html
Lenovo showed a similar concept three years ago:
https://www.cnet.com/news/lenovo-sho...-like-a-watch/
Stranger things are coming.