On April 26, the folding smartphone Galaxy Fold was supposed to go on sale in the United States, but this did not happen, since test samples of the new product had a number of defects and Samsung is currently working to eliminate them.
Meanwhile, specialists from iFixit Galaxy Fold and published on their website a description of this process, as well as their conclusions about the possible causes of device failures.
However, the post was removed from the iFixit website on Thursday. As it turns out, a sample of the Galaxy Fold was provided to the resource by a third party. Samsung then asked her to remove the teardown description and the iFixit team, although objecting to this, chose to maintain good relations with the βtrusted partnerβ Samsung and comply with this request.
At the same time, the resource promised to return the article about disassembling the Galaxy Fold back as soon as it becomes possible to purchase the new product in a retail store.
Itβs difficult to say why such a request was made to iFixit. It's clear that Samsung is currently redesigning the Galaxy Fold, its design will eventually change, and the company doesn't want to disassemble a device it doesn't intend to ship in the future. It seems more likely that the third party that provided the foldable smartphone to iFixit did not have the right to do so, and Samsung simply required them to honor the terms of the contract.
Source: 3dnews.ru