Samsung has postponed the release of its folding smartphone, days after several early reviewers said the screens on their devices had broken. The company said it had delayed the launch of the Galaxy Fold to "fully evaluate the feedback and run further internal tests". In April, several early reviewers found the display on the Galaxy Fold broke after just a few days. Samsung has not said when the £1,800 device will go on sale. A new launch date will be announced in the "coming weeks". The South Korean tech giant has said it is investigating what went wrong with the broken review units. In some cases, reviewers had peeled off a layer of the screen's coating, mistaking it for a disposable screen protector. Samsung has been in a race to launch a folding device ahead of Chinese rival Huawei, which has announced its phone but not let reviewers take one home yet. Both manufacturers say their folding screens can be opened and closed more than 100,000 times without breaking, based on laboratory tests. But in the real world, reviewers have destroyed Samsung's device in less than 48 hours. Perhaps the Galaxy Fold needed a little longer in testing.
