What’s your opinions for buying a used flip3 from places like amazon or CEX, judging from reviews the biggest worry is that the screen will breaking less than a year of second hand use.
Do you REALLY wanna buy a wore out bent plastic phone?
My flip3 screen had splintering along its hinge in about 8 months, and took Samsung another 3 months to get parts to fix it. 6 months after they fixed, it started showing signs of happening again and I traded it in.
For what is worth I wouldn’t do it again.
Edit - also the battery is trash. I was lucky to make it to 8pm some days.
For reference, pics I sent to samsung regarding this
If you’re really set on a flip phone, might be worth checking out other & newer alternatives, Nubia flip, Razr flip…something you can buy new, at half the price of a Samsung…
As an owner of a fold 4, I wouldn’t trust the folding screen.
Over time gunk gets into the hinge, it’s unavoidable.
The most stupidest gadget ever. Just because you CAN build it, doesn’t mean you SHOULD.
I wouldn’t, my wife had one from new and the screen protector got ugly quickly.
The moment that Samsung offered the 1 free replacement she sent it off and traded it at CEX as soon as it was returned.
I second this. I had the Original Fold and while it was nice to use and the perfect phone for me, my sweat was too aggressive for the fragile topmost plastic film. I ended up with rubbing marks left and right from doomscrolling at my old job.
Stupid question: why didn’t you remove the plastic film?
It’s certainly not a stupid question!
You see, Samsung “pre-installed” a plastic screen protector for us. However, if you removed this screen protector, it would totally destroy the screen. It would just turn black and stop responding. So they built a plastic lip around the phone to “hide” the plastic film. Removal of said film still would destroy the phone.
