I have had my fold 4 for a little over 13 months, and expected it to last me at the very least 2 years. I recently got the inner screen protector replaced, as it was starting to peel up along the crease. Fine, Best Buy did an alright job of honoring my warranty after 3 visits to the place (4 including the pickup time, when they made me wait in the store for an extra hour).
A couple nights ago, I laid down in bed to open YouTube, and my whole large screen was dark after I opened the phone up. It seems that the inner screen mechanism for detecting when the phone is shut or open is faulty (because the screen still works in “laptop” mode and only goes black if I open it all the way). If anyone knows how to prevent something like this from happening again, I’ll just hold onto the phone for another year before replacing it. I’m planning on getting it repaired, but I want to replace it with the S23 Ultra if it’s just going to break before I’m ready for a new phone.
Does anybody think I should just replace the phone without waiting to get it repaired?
At this point i’d wait for S24U. It’s just around the corner.
Edit: Or if S23U gets a good Black friday deal somewhere though. It’s almost time for that shit.
If you can wait for the s25 if you want a flat screen. If you still want a good phone and don’t care then go for the s23u. I did this year from iphone and love it.
Buy a temporary phone and make sure it’s available for trade in with the current s23 ultra, that way you can trade it in for the s24 ultra. If you wait, you can get a $1000 dollar trade in with carrier deals rather than if you get the s23 ultra now and pay way more than you need to be. It’s coming out in February, it should be worth the wait.
Switched from my fold 3 to s23+ and never looked back. Sometimes I still try to unfold my s23 though out of habbit
and expected it to last me at the very least 2 years
Yeah you don’t buy a foldable expecting that lol.
If you want a phone that will last you the full 5 years of support and more then definitely get the S23U.
I personally went without my inner screen protector on my Fold 2 for the whole three years I used it. I did however jump to the S23U instead of the Fold 5 since I wasn’t impressed by the rate of innovation. The power and battery life of the S23U is absolutely amazing far surpassing anything I have ever used.
Yeah I just switched from the Fold 4 to the s23u. My Fold 4 did the same thing with the inner screen. I loved using the Fold but my peace of mind had been restored with a durable phone again. The s23u is a great phone. You really can’t go wrong getting it now. I mean I’d for sure wait for black friday and get some deal with samsung. You won’t need the s24u, the s23u will last and if you decide you want to swap it out in a little over a year you’ll still get great trade in value for the s25u.