Samsung’s new folding phones are better than before, but now that competition among foldables has heated up, these Galaxies have less star power. 📸: Samsung // 🔗
have an easy lead with so many years to perfect its two folding phone designs. But while the new Flip5 and Fold5 show even more polish than ever, I find myself slowly gravitating to the competition instead.The two distinct folding phone designs companies seem to have landed on are the clamshell style, which is almost like a normal smartphone that can snap in half, and the book style, which opens along a vertical hinge to offer a small tablet-like experience.
Folding flip phones are much more compact than the ever-growing traditional smartphone, and you can prop up the top half the screen to face you so you can have a video chat without holding the phone or improvising a kickstand. Book-like folds have a much larger display that lets you quickly put two apps side by side for full-screen multitasking. Apps that are optimized for the larger screen also show more information and are much more desktop-like as well.
The problem? You can choose from only a very limited number of widgets for the cover screen. You can also open only six apps on this screen—apps that have been optimized for its tight dimensions include Google Maps, WhatsApp, and Messages—and you need to manually toggle on the ability to open these apps in Samsung's settings menu.
The Razr+ is the nicer-looking flip phone and the texture on the back is more pleasant than what you get with the glass on the Samsung. But there are a few key areas where Samsung wins out. The first is software updates. Samsung's policy of four OS upgrades and five years of security updates remains one of the best in Android land. Next is build quality. The Razr+ makes an annoyingly gross creaky cracking sound when you open it, but the Flip5 opens silently, and its hinge design is cleaner.
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