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Samsung completes folding phone redesign after screen failures
Kim Jong Un’s elite bodyguards run beside his car because of a Clint
Eastwood movie
Samsung completes folding phone redesign after screen failures
Jul 03 2019 12:04 Sam Kim and Sohee Kim
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Samsung Electronics retrieving all Galaxy Fold samples - source
Samsung Electronics is retrieving all Galaxy Fold samples distributed to reviewers, a person with direct
knowledge of the matter said on Tuesday, as the firm smarts from the reputational blow of postponing the launch of its first foldable smartphone.
production model of the Samsung Galaxy Fold Tablet smartphone at a presentation in London in April 2019.
(Simon Nagel/picture alliance via Getty Images)
Samsung Electronics has completed a two-month redesign of the Galaxy Fold to fix embarrassing screen failures that forced its delay, people familiar with the matter say, allowing the Korean giant to debut its marquee smartphone in time for the crucial holiday season.
The world’s largest smartphone maker is now in the final stages of producing a commercial version but can’t yet pin down a date to begin sales, people familiar with the matter said, asking not to be identified describing an internal effort. Samsung pulled the device after several publications including Bloomberg News reported problems with test versions, such as screen malfunctions that emerged after a film on the display was peeled off.
Korea’s biggest company is trying to move past yet another product faux pas. It has now stretched the protective film to wrap around the entire screen and flow into the outer bezels so it would be impossible to peel off by hand, said the people, who have seen the latest versions. It re-engineered the hinge, pushing it slightly upward from the screen (it’s now flush with the display) to help stretch the film further when the phone opens.
That tension makes the film feel harder and more a natural part of the device rather than a detachable accessory, they added. The consequent protrusion, almost imperceptible to the naked eye, may help reduce the chance of a crease developing in the middle of the screen over time, one of the people said.
A question of reputation
Samsung is keen to salvage its reputation after canceling the April 26 launch of the $1 980 device when folding displays on review models exhibited problems.
It had counted on the world’s first mass-produced foldable smartphone to challenge Apple and widen its lead over Chinese rivals such as Huawei Technologies. Instead, some models developed issues after mere days of use: Bloomberg’s test unit failed to function properly after a plastic layer covering the screen was removed, and a small tear developed at the top of the hinge where the gadget opened.
Samsung will soon start shipping major components for the Galaxy Fold, including the display and battery, to a main plant in Vietnam for assembly while the company debates a launch date, one of the people said. But the company is unlikely to unveil its re-upholstered Galaxy Fold during an August 7 “Unpack” event in New York for the new flagship Note 10 phone, one of the people said. A Samsung representative declined to comment.
The Fold’s postponement marked a setback for a company that had bet on its latest innovation to extend its dominance and ignite a stagnating smartphone market. But the Suwon, South Korea-based firm was keen to avoid the kind of fiasco it suffered in 2016 when it recalled the Note 7, which showed a tendency to burst into flames. Samsung also finds itself in no rush to launch the Galaxy Fold after Huawei postponed the roll-out of its own foldable device, the person said.
Samsung’s shares slid 1.8% Wednesday while South Korea’s benchmark Kospi fell 1.2%.
Foldable phones let users double their screen real estate while also keeping devices compact enough to fit into a pocket. But analysts say it’s unclear whether companies can develop apps to take full advantage of the innovative screen. Samsung’s delay underscored the challenges of creating a display that folds like a notebook, something Samsung spent eight years trying to master.
Even if the phone is made to perfection, the market may not be ready for it: Samsung shipped more than 290 million phones last year, according to Strategy Analytics, but said earlier this year it would produce about 1 million foldable phones in 2019.
Samsung, which supplies the organic light-emitting diode screens used in Apple iPhones, is also developing a clamshell-like foldable phone and has already created dozens of
prototypes, one of the people said.
Bloomberg News reported in March Samsung was working on a pair of new foldable models to follow the Galaxy Fold, including one that folds vertically and another that folds outward like Huawei’s Mate X. The company also envisions smartphones with rollable and
stretchable displays in the future, Samsung Executive Vice President Chung Eui-suk said in February.
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Kim Jong Un's elite bodyguards run beside his car because of a Clint Eastwood movie
Ellen Ioanes , Business Insider US Jul 04, 2019, 08:52 AM
North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un heads to the north side for luncheon in the car escorted by Norths bodyguards from the Peace House during the Inter-Korean Summit on April 27, 2018 in Panmunjom, South Korea. Kim and
Moon meet at the border today for the third-ever inter-Korean summit talks after the 1945 division of the peninsula, and first since 2007 between then President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea and Leader Kim Jong-il of
North Korea. (Photo by Korea Summit Press Pool/Getty Images)
Kim Jong Un's bodyguards sparked international attention after they were seen running beside his car at a summit in Singapore last year.
The elite force is chosen from among North Korea's most loyal political families, a new book reports.
President Donald Trump made a historic visit North Korea over the weekend.
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US President Donald Trump made a historic trip to North Korea on Monday, meeting North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on his home turf. The meeting offered a view of the secretive Hermit Kingdom - including a glimpse of the protection apparatus that ensures Kim's safety.
Kim's life is shrouded in mystery, and his bodyguards remain a source of endless fascination. During Kim's visit to Singapore last year for talks with the US, images of a dozen of Kim's bodyguards running alongside his car made headlines.
According to "The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un" by Washington Post correspondent Anna Fifield, "Kim got the idea for this human shield from Clint Eastwood."
"As a boy, he's seen the movie 'In the Line of Fire,' in which Eastwood plays a US Secret Service agent who had been guarding John F. Kennedy when he was assassinated in 1963. Eastwood's character and other agents run alongside the president's car," Fifield's book explains.
Becoming a bodyguard for the North Korean leader is extremely difficult - according to Lee Yeong Guk, a bodyguard for Kim Jong Un's father deceased father Kim Jong Il, it's "harder than passing through the eye of a needle."
Potential recruits are chosen from the military, and must pass through several tests to judge their health, eyesight, looks, personality, and family background, according to Fifield. "Those charged with guarding the Brilliant Comrade [Kim Jong Un] must have excellent political credentials and come only from the most loyal classes." They must be around the same height as Kim, andthey are among the only citizens allowed to carry firearms near the leader.
Lee, the former bodyguard for Kim Jong Il, told ABC news in 2018that guards "have to be good at shooting guns. Then Taekwondo, things like throwing knives, swimming, and marching, these are the first. And the second is serving Kim Jong Il with loyalty, that's also the third and the fourth."
The bodyguards come from the Main Office of Adjutants, or, more colloquially, Central Party Office number 6, according to the BBC. Although they're armed with handguns, they are primarily dependent on their observational skills and non-lethal methods - like their hands and bodies - to deal with threats.
The bodyguards are part of the larger Supreme Guard Command, an approximately 100,000-strong force that navigates a number of different security threats that Kim might face, according to TIME. North Korea takes extraordinary measures to protect Kim Jong Un, including taste-testing food before it's served to him andtoting around his own personal toilet so no foreign government can analyze his DNA for health information.
