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Thanks Meter : 1, Join Date: Joined: Aug OP Junior Member. Join Date: Joined: Jul Thanks Meter : 6, Join Date: Joined: May The arrival of the Samsung Galaxy Fold gives you the opportunity to own the future of smartphones and tablets, with a 2-in-1 design that just makes sense — if the bendable screen technology holds up.
It marries a tall, narrow 4. Samsung calls this the Infinity Flex Display, and its design really does dazzle. The key to the Galaxy Fold's book-like foldable design is a part, dual-axis locking hinge that prevents the display from overextending past degrees. Whereas the screen is delicate, the hinge feels like it's been meticulously engineered to withstand abuse. Opening and closing the Fold feels buttery smooth, and closing it ends with a satisfying magnetic click, like you've just closed up a book.
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That feeling is back — only now, you'll probably swallow them up in a video call. Also coming back is smartphone heft. In its folded state, the Galaxy Fold is However, it's narrower than you might think, and despite its thickness it isn't too hard to slip into a jeans pocket although those with slim-fit pants will likely struggle — it'll even fit into tight-yet-deep jacket pockets that other phones can't fit into, although there's no escaping the fact that it'll look like you're packing two phones back-to-back.
It is ungainly in aesthetic, and it feels awkwardly weighted in its folded state.
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It's not exactly what many would call pretty, and its size and weight will likely put a number of people off - the look and weight tended to be the first comments from those we passed the Fold to. Unfolded, it's a much more reasonable 7. The indentation for the fingerprint scanner isn't pronounced enough, and it demands you complete cover the area with your digit in order to read your finger print. It saw us move away from using the scanner and instead lean on passcode and face unlock options. There are two speakers, one at the top and one at the bottom, and it's easy to cover up these powerful Dolby Atmos stereo speakers when you're playing games or watching videos in landscape orientation.
Pro tip: instead of uncomfortably choking up your grip, try rotating the Fold degrees — most apps will rotate just fine. When it's closed, an all-glass design envelopes the phone's outside. The glass is slippery, but we found its folded size so easy to grasp that we didn't feel the need to use the two-piece case that came in the box. If you love big screens, but are tired of juggling big phones, this is the biggest phone we've tested It's an idea that's been more than 10 years in the making and, as Samsung likes to say, went through 1, different prototypes.
It's not a bad start, but there's surely more innovation to come. Beyond the mesmerizing foldable design, the main display is impressive with only a few technical caveats, illustrating the cutting-edge and its obvious downfalls. The 7. It's the reason to own a foldable phone. Alas, most video in the traditional aspect ratio will only be 1. We found the big screen better for reading, web browsing, and gaming thanks to its 4. This mirrors the traditional TVs we did away with 15 years ago, but going back makes sense: it offers a broader view and makes way for Muti-Active Window mode.
We had three apps open at once, and it was fairly usable. The crease is almost always the feature that's commented on when someone unfolds the handset for the first time. And yes, you can see it, but most of the time you'll find it's not even an issue.
You will find glare shines a light on the middle crease, indoors or outdoors, and you can feel the groove. Like a notch, your brain will ignore it in time and if you're playing a game or watching a video, you'll notice your vision drawn to the action on-screen, rather than the crease running through the middle of it, which makes it almost disappear completely.
Harder to ignore is the uneven refresh rate. Scroll through a text-filled webpage and if look carefully you'll notice the words shift unevenly across the 7. Samsung makes the best phone displays, so this is a compromise we didn't expect. Its bezel-heavy 4. Yes, the foldable future is great, but it has some obvious pain points you should know about. Samsung's fold hardware is only half of the story. Its software was made reactive to the transition from the small phone screen to the larger tablet screen, and it does that fairly well with a feature called App Continuity.
Apps Continuity allowed us to browse Chrome, Yelp reviews, and Google Maps while walking with the phone folded, and then seamlessly open up to those same apps on the larger screen when we came to a standstill usually lost in the wilds of Central Park and needing finer directions in Google Maps.
The reverse — keeping apps open when you fold the phone — is also possible, but we had to tick off each app in a display settings submenu. Apps we enabled to go from big screen to small screen included Messages, Slack, Chrome and Google Maps — things we'd want to keep using upon exiting a subway in folded mode. Otherwise, Cover Display ends things and shows the always-on screen time, date, battery life.
Samsung's says "the possibilities are endless with Multi-Active Window". That's true if "endless" is defined by up to three active apps open at once. It's cramped for sure, but we had a Google Sheet open in the biggest window, a Hangouts call going in a smaller box, and Slack in the tiniest windows to at least see the latest message from our TechRadar team. While the 4. Developers are able to code apps to fit the aspect ratio nicely, with the likes of Clash Royale and PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds filling the space nicely without any stretch or pixelated elements.
However, there are some apps and games which don't take to the aspect ratio quite as well. While Pokemon Go displayed as expected when viewing the map and catching Pokemon, the menus appear 'zoomed in', resulting in less information displayed on screen at a time, more scrolling required and a slight down tick in graphical sharpness.
It's still perfectly playable, but the menus are a little frustrating. It's down to the developer to address this - and it can do with an app update - but there's no guarantee it'll put the work in to support just one handset.
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Samsung Galaxy Fold isn't going to outpace the performance of current phones, as if this were a specced-out gaming desktop at an absurd price. You're paying for the screen innovation, not the latest chipset.
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That said, it matches the Galaxy S10 and Note 10 performance numbers thanks to its use of the Snapdragon chipset. Yes, Samsung could have opted to include the higher-end Snapdragon Plus, but it stuck with the configuration announced in April. It earned a multi-core score of 2,, according to our Geekbench 5 benchmarking tests, with only the iPhone 11 Pro earning noticeably better marks 3, Without any noticeable lag, your foldable phone should be good to last — internally at least.
There are six Samsung Galaxy Fold cameras, and they're all technically the same as the five S10 Plus and four Note 10 cameras. Let us explain and show you the mix. The Cover Display has a single 10MP selfie camera with a f2. It's the same configuration as the Note 10 front camera, only it can't shoot Live Focus video, the Live Focus photos are just okay, and we've mostly used it for unlocking the phone when device is closed.
The latter is meant for depth-sensing and comes from the S10 Plus dual camera hole-punch the S10 Plus version is only a hair wider with a 90 degree FoV. We used this for Live Focus selfies with fun filters like the selective black-and-white Color Point mode.