Good
Supremely cool form factor
Great display with HDR10+
Six cameras
Bad
Noticeable crease in large screen
Huge price
No 5G or expandable storage
The Samsung Galaxy Fold is an exciting entrant into to smartphone market, breaking the static rectangle mold that we’ve become accustomed too, to bring us a handset which boasts two displays, two batteries and six cameras.
Sure it’s expensive, but the first generation of any new technology is, and people will point to its size, weight, screen crease and bezel round the smaller display as negative points which for some, will be a deal breaker.
However the Galaxy Fold is more than a standalone handset. It, along with the Huawei Mate X, ushers in an exciting new mobile form factor which will only be refined, improved and made more affordable over the next 12-18 months and you’ll have this phone to thank for that.
If you want to be ahead of the curve, sorry fold, the Samsung Galaxy Fold can get you there, right now. That in itself is impressive.
In terms of specs, the Galaxy Fold is very similar to a Galaxy S10 Plus. It has the same Snapdragon 855 processor, 12GB of RAM, and 512GB of storage. The cameras are similar to what you’d find on that phone, too, but there are more of them. The battery is 4,380mAh, with cells on both sides of the fold. Whether that’s enough for Samsung’s claimed full-day of use on a screen this large is anybody’s guess. The S10 tech that it’s based on has comported itself fairly well in terms of battery life, so there’s some reason to be optimistic.
Buying the first iteration of any new kind of gadget is fraught with risk. And the Fold is a first: it’s a phone with a 4.6-inch screen that folds out to reveal a 7.3-inch tablet inside. That’s how we’ve all thought of it, anyway: as a folding phone. But after using the Galaxy Fold for about an hour today, I’ve started to come around to thinking of it as a small tablet that happens to fold up.
