After denying that the so-called "foldgate" would have influenced the sale of its new Galaxy Fold, the € 2,000 folding smartphone , Samsung had to surrender: a company spokesman confirmed that the device presentation events , scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday next to Hong Kong and Shanghai, were canceled .
In recent days, after numerous journalists, in various parts of the world, had after a day or two of use, the South Korean company had made it known that "we will check carefully these units to determine the causes of the failures, relating both to the mechanism that regulates the opening of the folding screen and to the screen itself.
As mentioned, however, the company also pointed out that it planned to produce "at least 1 million" copies of the Fold and that the pre-orders closed with "a very high demand". In addition to confirming to the Reuters news agency that the program for the sale would not be modified, perhaps even to remove as much as possible, even psychologically, the "specter" of what happened 3 years ago with the Galaxy Note 7 , the which batteries could burst: the withdrawal from the market of the device had practically eliminated all the profits of the Mobile division of Samsung in the third quarter of 2016.