It’s a great idea. I have the Motorola razr 2024 and it’s a horizontal hinge like a normal flip phone instead of a vertical one. It’s compact and I can use 100% of the smart phone features without even opening it. It’s the ultra compact smart phone I’ve been searching for for years.
The cover screen in my Flip3 is basically useless. It tells me the time. So I open the Phone every time I use it, dozens on times a day. It would be an under exaggeration to say mine’s been opened and closed 13,000 times since I’ve owned it.
I’ve also hard dropped it (waist-high, onto concrete, 3 or 4 times, and I’ve never had it in a case. I’ve always dropped it closed, though, and I think that’s contributed to how well it’s survived. If it had a bigger outside screen like the newer models, something may have broken by now.
Just sold my Samsung galaxy z fold 4. After a year of owning it, it stopped opening completely flat. Went back to my S21 Ultra which is generally just a better device.
At about a year and a half now with my Z Fold 5. Echoing many of the others here. Still works great, opens flat, and I never want go back to a non-foldable.
I like my zfold 6, but the main downside is that it’s made by Samsung. They’ve switched to a locked down bootloader over the past few years and you can’t get GrapheneOS or LineageOS to run on it.
Because of this, once software updates stop being supported by Samsung, the phone increasingly become a security liability. Meanwhile my old S10e does support these 3rd party OS’s so I can theoretically keep using it safely for several more years
I only know one guy who has a folding smartphone. It’s broken now. What a stupid idea.
It’s a great idea. I have the Motorola razr 2024 and it’s a horizontal hinge like a normal flip phone instead of a vertical one. It’s compact and I can use 100% of the smart phone features without even opening it. It’s the ultra compact smart phone I’ve been searching for for years.
This seems like the better direction. I’d rather have a phone that turns into a pocket watch than a tablet that turns into a phone.
Now you know two who’ve had one. I’m typing on my Galaxy Z Flip3, which I bought in December 2021. No problems yet.
I have quite literally never used the front screen on my galaxy fold 4. I hear the pixel has a more regular proportioned front screen.
The cover screen in my Flip3 is basically useless. It tells me the time. So I open the Phone every time I use it, dozens on times a day. It would be an under exaggeration to say mine’s been opened and closed 13,000 times since I’ve owned it.
I’ve also hard dropped it (waist-high, onto concrete, 3 or 4 times, and I’ve never had it in a case. I’ve always dropped it closed, though, and I think that’s contributed to how well it’s survived. If it had a bigger outside screen like the newer models, something may have broken by now.
Yeah, external screen is just like using a regular smart phone. Normal size and aspect ratio amoled.
Just sold my Samsung galaxy z fold 4. After a year of owning it, it stopped opening completely flat. Went back to my S21 Ultra which is generally just a better device.
Same, lasted about a year and a half at most. Was replaced with non folding.
My wife has a z flip 6 and it works great. She had a 3 previously and never had any issues either
Wife has one and she loves it.
The ones I’ve seen end up with a big crease in the screen. Not enticing.
I think it’s a fantastic idea. Wanted one since Samsung showed an S4(?) clamshell.
But they still have too many issues for me. I look forward to when it’s a standard thing, so the OS and apps work correctly.
At about a year and a half now with my Z Fold 5. Echoing many of the others here. Still works great, opens flat, and I never want go back to a non-foldable.
Love my z fold 6. Getting the first foldable phone…yeah that would be questionable but they worked it out I think. I love mine.
I like my zfold 6, but the main downside is that it’s made by Samsung. They’ve switched to a locked down bootloader over the past few years and you can’t get GrapheneOS or LineageOS to run on it.
Because of this, once software updates stop being supported by Samsung, the phone increasingly become a security liability. Meanwhile my old S10e does support these 3rd party OS’s so I can theoretically keep using it safely for several more years
Completely agree that’s the rub. Samsung product.
Good idea, bad execution, at least at the start but I think they’ve improved a lot.