After months of setbacks, Samsung’s $2,000 foldable phone finally has a release date.

The Galaxy Fold will hit stores at some point in September, Samsung said Thursday, after its launch was delayed earlier this year.

The Fold was originally due to hit the US market in the spring, but once review units made their way out to gadget bloggers, reports of major malfunctions quickly spread across Twitter, forcing Samsung to postpone the launch of the $1,980 smartphone a week before it was scheduled to hit stores on April 26.

The problem was that a thin protective layer — meant to keep the phone’s screen together when folded or unfolded — had only gone up to the screen’s edge. That led tech reviewers to peel it off, thinking it was a screen protector.

Techies who removed the plastic layer reported blacked-out or flickering screens. Other reviewers said the phones were breaking at their hinges.

Samsung said in a statement that those problems are now behind it, and that it is completing final tests on the nearly $2,000 handset.

The South Korean tech giant is hoping its highly anticipated foldable phone will revive flagging smartphone sales. The delays cost Samsung sales that could have provided a decent bump in revenue during the slow summer season.

Analysts said headlines about glitches with sample Folds would dampen consumer excitement around the launch.

“Consumer confidence in Galaxy Fold has significantly deteriorated,” SK Securities analyst Kim Young-woo said. “If Samsung manages to sell 300,000 devices this year, that can be a decent performance given the delay.”

Samsung said earlier that it planned to make at least 1 million Fold handsets in the first year, versus the total 300 million phones it produces annually on average.

The world’s top smartphone maker has hailed the folding design as the future in a segment that has seen few surprises since the iPhone was released in 2007.

With Reuters