Day one with the Galaxy Z Fold 7. Setup was a disaster. Smart Switch didn't. TalkBack went silent. Samsung installed everything I told it not to.

This is why nobody upgrades their Android phone.

https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/galaxy-z-fold-seven-day-one-the-fold-has-arrived-setup-was-a-disaster-this-is-why-no-one-upgrades-their-android-phone/

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Galaxy Z Fold Seven Day One: The Fold Has Arrived. Setup Was A Disaster. This Is Why No One Upgrades Their Android Phone. — fireborn

@fireborn OMG this is like, almost so hillariously bad you'd almost laugh. Except you can't laugh because it's not actually funny at all.

Pretty glad my next phone is the iphone 17e.

@xogium Right? I hope tomorrow is better. Maybe I just got incredibly unlucky.

@fireborn Maybe... But this being samsung, I honestly doubt it.

Your post makes me incredibly glad I never, ever went to samsung. That, plus all the failure over the years I kept reading about including the loss of speech over bluetooth during phone calls and the broken explore by touch if you had the display hidden.

@xogium Oh yeah, I had the broken explore by touch problem, but that was my fault for enabling without doing updates when I knew the bug existed.
@fireborn Sure but what I mean is, someone who doesn't know... Like a beginner? Just... Good god.
@xogium @fireborn Yeah this is why the general rule is just stick with Pixel if you are a blind android user, never run across any more issues than I had when I still could see.
@dhamlinmusic @xogium @fireborn Yup, this. Was about to say, I wonder if the Pixel fold would've given you similar issues.
@jonathan859 @dhamlinmusic @xogium aI couldn't say if it would or not with any degree of certainty. A lot of this seems to be failures on Samsung's part, but that wouldn't change the fundimental state of things, that a foldable is still a foldable