I asked the durability question on the OG section and while the responses were few they all said the phone held up fine. I've watched about every review it there for this thing and a number of reviewers said the same. None said it crapped out on them. What I infer from that is the improved version we're focusing on here is probably going to be acceptable with moderate care.
As to value that is relative to wealth rather than an absolute and can only be quantified in a subjective context. On the Corvette forum Porsche is overpriced and the value is not there, on the Porsche forum a Corvette is sub par but Ferrari is overpriced and the value is not there, it's all relative to wealth. The t-shirt is often used as an analogy: When you've just entered the work force the price may matter so much as to guide a buying decision because you don't have many dimes to rub together. Later down the road you might scowl at the price of the shirt but your buying it anyways, you can afford it. Later on you don't even look at the price, it doesn't have any meaning relative to your wealth.
Having said all that when someone can show me a folding phone of this form factor that's a better value I'll be all ears; right now it's a matter of whether you can afford to pay the game.
I think it's poorly executed and it's claim fame is OLED spread out like a napkin.
Where's the beef? At that price? Nuts.
Holding it looks like a mess; I go tad form factor bigger than a 20U but don't want a flopping fish.
Doesn't even have the slick perfectly tensioned hinges of the new MS mini foldable computer (MS is sensible enough not to call it a phone).
Samsung's getting more fragmented and their flagship phones are getting real expensive but skimping on the beef.
This latest offering is one of their worst.
No SD card, hell it should have two, a spen, 12 gb ram, and 500 gb internal... 2 tb of expandable memory be more like it.
Samsung deserves to catch hell for this half thought out, half baked prototype.
You don't reward rabid gerbils for bad behavior...
