The catastrophe takes its course

The Google Pixel Fold was first handed out to testers, but now the first buyers have also received their foldable cell phones. This is exactly where there have now been several cases of defective folding displays. Everything is reminiscent of Samsung’s disaster with the first Galaxy Z Fold.

Google Pixel Fold breaks multiple times

First it hit a test device of the Google Pixel Fold. The folding display broke after just four days. A faulty construction of the smartphone is suspected, since the protective film leaves a small gap and dirt can cause damage there. After just a day on the market, more and more buyers are reporting that the Pixel Fold’s display is already damaged.

This is how one owner reports Redditthat him several dents were noticed in the area, where the Arstechnica test device was damaged. It is precisely this area between the edge and the protective film that is unprotected and is probably the Pixel Fold’s greatest weakness.

On another pixel fold up Reddit the protective film in the area of ​​the fold is already coming off (see above). In addition, a massive scratch has appeared, which he cannot explain.

A third owner, who already had it, was hit much worse has a line of pink pixels after two hours:

At first this flared up briefly, but then it showed itself permanently. This is similar to the defect of the first model, where image disturbances first appeared and later more and more of the display broke.

All that is very reminiscent of the problems with the first Galaxy Z Fold, where many testers had problems with the folding cell phone and Samsung therefore had to cancel the market launch. Here Google has delivered the Pixel Fold and with it a much bigger problem.

No problems have arisen with our Google Pixel Fold:

Google has spoken out

Across from The Verge Google has now taken a stand. However, all affected people are only advised to contact support to solve the problem. The next few days and weeks will show whether it stays that way. If the problem spreads further, things will get serious for Google.