Samsung Galaxy Note 4 owners complain of uneven 'gaps' around screen

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Samsung's Galaxy Note 4 went on sale this week in its home market of South Korea, but some of those who have already taken delivery of the company's new flagship aren't very happy with their purchase. A number of owners have complained that their devices have an uneven fit around the display, with a sizeable gap between the glass front and the handset's frame, at one edge.

As IT Today reports, numerous buyers have described how the gap is large enough to slot in a business card or a couple of sheets of paper into it. On some handsets, the gap is at the top or bottom; on others, it can be found along the left or right edges of the display.

As with the iPhone 'bentgate' issue, we must sound a note of caution, and point out that the number of users reporting this imperfection on the Galaxy Note 4 is tiny (although given that Samsung has sold only around 30,000 units so far, the proportion of handsets affected by the problem will be much larger than with 'bentgate').

Given that Samsung plans to rapidly expand availability of the Galaxy Note 4 to 140 markets in the next four weeks, this is clearly a headache that the company would much rather do without. Nonetheless, it's hard to imagine how Samsung will explain this as anything other than a manufacturing issue, but we'll have to wait and see how it addresses the problem.

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ZipsPosted:

Mobile phones these days are getting worse and worse, but cost more and more.

AstronautsPosted:

Lol another phone issue. What's happening with phones lately?

oohPosted:

Seems hard to believe they wouldn't notice something like this prior to shipping them out in masses.

1989Posted:

Didnt even know the note 4 came out lol.

SwiftPosted:

oh my God. is this GAP-GATE, what ever will the world do now?

All I can say is HTCmasterrace.

OrthoPosted:

There's always issues with phones now.

DeluxeHazardPosted:

BenUK Wow, the iPhone and now this.


Seems like phones are getting better but their quality is decreasing.

MoCapPosted:

If the gap becomes a legitimate problem, then I won't buy it anyway.

BenUKPosted:

Wow, the iPhone and now this.

gtapro151Posted:

with iphone plus sold out and this not coming to the us till the 17th this sucks.