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1 SAMSUNG GALAXY Z FOLD7
● From £1,799, samsung.com
It has been easy to be a little picky about the Folds of old. Too thick, too narrow, too hamstrung by their chipsets to really fill the role of an ultra-premium flagship. It’s no longer easy. In fact, it’s next to impossible: Samsung has very clearly been spending time in the lab, and it has come up with some serious results.
This feels like a phone, not a foldable. When closed, the 120Hz, 6.5-inch outer screen has a 21:9 ratio, like proper handsets. This is 25% thinner than the last gen – a truly noticeable slimming regime when furled – and it weighs in at a svelte 215g. Yes, it’s a hair bulkier than the Honor Magic V5, but delivered without quite as hefty a camera bump and with a dash more elan.
It also feels like a tablet, the 8-inch internal display now sporting an almost square 6:5 ratio; this is a phone on which you could get some serious multi-window work (or play) done, presuming the 4,400mAh battery can keep up with its dual-screen demands. And that’s the remaining test, for us.
The Galaxy Z Fold7 succeeded at basically every task we threw at it in our early hands-on, but long-term use, particularly with such a demanding chipset squeezed into such a small space, will reveal the truth of its performance and longevity. There’s no doubt this is a great phone, but is it the great phone of its time?
TECH-O-METER
A NEW FLIP
Flip follows Fold, and the Flip7 (from £1,049) impresses with a new edge-to-edge cover screen display, the largest battery yet seen in the range, and a superb selfie camera – that being the dual 50MP and 12MP main sensors, filtered through that excellent outer screen.