Samsung has pushed back the launch of its highly anticipated folding smartphone after multiple reviewers reported the screens broke within days.
The Galaxy Fold was set to hit the market in the US this Friday, but Samsung said in a statement that it would now carry out further tests and make improvements before announcing a new release date "in the coming weeks".
The news comes after several journalists reported issues with the devices they'd been given to review.
On April 17, Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman tweeted that his device was "unusable just two days in", with photos showing the screen had gone mostly black.

The screen on my Galaxy Fold review unit is completely broken and unusable just two days in. Hard to know if this is widespread or not. pic.twitter.com/G0OHj3DQHw ? Mark Gurman (@markgurman) April 17, 2019

Among the other complaints was a story on The Verge headlined My Samsung Galaxy Fold screen broke after just a day.
At least some of the complaints have come from users who had peeled off a thin layer of polymer from the screen that Samsung said was not intended to be removed, but issues with the Galaxy Fold seem to run deeper.
The company's statement identified the hinge mechanism and "substances found inside the device" as potential problem areas.
"We recently unveiled a completely new mobile category: a smartphone using multiple new technologies and materials to create a display that is flexible enough to fold," sai...