vivo X Fold3 is the lightest book-style foldable yet, Fold3 Pro adds SD 8 Gen 3 and 5,700mAh battery
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- 26 Mar 2024
Jon8652, 26 Mar 2024Crazy honor was a whole 1 year ahead in terms of design...Yeah but the cameras aren't anything special so the Find N3 justifies the higher weight and thickness and besides the bigger battery wasn't better than Oppo's optimization. Great size/thickness tho gotta give em that
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- 26 Mar 2024
Happymk, 26 Mar 2024Compare it to find x6 from last year with 1/56 size sensor ... moreeven the Find X7 Ultra has a 1/2" sensor, it doesn't matter as much as processing does. Look at Xiaomi's sensor, it's bigger than the Vivo's one but arguably is the same quality if not worse. The Find X7 Ultra's sensor is good enough and besides, this is a folding phone. I doubt any foldable other than the Find N3 and the next Oppo foldable can beat it in terms of UW camera performance since Vivo can do some insane stuff with their V3 chip.
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- 26 Mar 2024
I'm holding onto my fold 4 until some company makes a foldable with 3x and 6x lenses with big sensors
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- 26 Mar 2024
Samsung on new foldable: "Look, now we have titanium, but we'll keep the everything else just like last year and ask for more money. We know you will love it!"
Vivo: *hold my beer...*
...And boom!
Huge battery with newer tech and battery type, dual fingerprint, latest silicon available at the moment of announcement, fastest charging speed with multiple solutions, Zeiss optics for cameras...
This is, at least, 2 generation ahead of Samsung judging by leaks and rumor mill infos about their future Z Folds. It's relevant to notice that this phone is honest. No small (and sometimes, irrelevant) increments over old specs. They threw a real foldable flagship phone. Expensive as always, yes, but worth of money.
Ah! There's only one thing missing here: Stylus support. Not useful for most people, but certainly welcome in these type of phones.
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- 26 Mar 2024
Dear Lord, vivo X Fold 3 Pro is like 3 generations ahead of Fold 5, easily 2 ahead of Fold 6 (according to latest rumor mill specs).
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- 26 Mar 2024
Vivo just throw everything into this phones.. The best of the best hardware into x fold3 ... New benchmark for foldable phone.
Samsung used to be like these in the early days of android .. But now they just become generic with tiny incremental update
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- 26 Mar 2024
Great job really a light one
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- 26 Mar 2024
Samsung instead of upgrades, gonna use "titanium" frame.
While rest basically same.
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- 26 Mar 2024
jiyen235, 26 Mar 2024keep in mind the X100 Pro uses the same UW sensor and quali... moreCompare it to find x6 from last year with 1/56 size sensor vs 1/276 to see the difference.
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- 26 Mar 2024
GAMIR3DH, 26 Mar 2024Explain in what way? I seen people with flips still workin... moreWhat I have seen is plenty of people having to repair their Flips within 6 months, same with some Folds, but the Flip series seems to be worse. Hinge and screen issues, all the time.
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- 26 Mar 2024
DarlingYext, 26 Mar 2024"..and the durability which still remains the most imp... moreExplain in what way?
I seen people with flips still working fine to this day.
And my Z Fold 4 is 2 months old already (refurbised too) and nothing is broken 🤔
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fls, 26 Mar 2024Don't forget, those are the prices for the Chinese mar... moreThe X Fold 3 can be 1500 euros and still be well worth it and the Pro can be 1800-2000 euros and still be worth it considering the camera hardware. It's the best hardware on a foldable, coupled with Vivo's V3 chip, it'll be the best camera on a foldable with the largest battery and the latest chip. The Magic V2 looks strikingly low value compared to this.
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DarlingYext, 26 Mar 2024"..and the durability which still remains the most imp... moreNot true at all. May be for first or second generations but not nowadays. Fail rate in former BBK foldables is much higher than Samsung's. Just the user base in the wester world is muuch smaller and you dont hear complaints that often.
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- 26 Mar 2024
justasmile, 26 Mar 2024Nothing to save Samsung other than the name.And customer support. The biggest factor in buying foldables is customer support.
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- 26 Mar 2024
Damn, after every single foldable have a 4000+ mAh or 5000 mAh battery, Vivo decided to give it a much larger battery, huge respect for them
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- 26 Mar 2024
Now those are what I call good, well-specced foldables. Too bad that the price of a possible global variant of any of them will be eye-watering
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PepperPot, 26 Mar 2024and the durability which still remains the most important c... more"..and the durability which still remains the most important concern consumers have about foldables, but I'm all ears if you can prove anyone is better than Samsung in that regard."
Samsung's Flip and Fold phones are awful when it comes to durability, it's hard to be worse than them.
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Darth Caesium, 26 Mar 2024And whether this'll be launched internationally. I so ... morenope, you underestimate the average consumer and the power of reviewers way too much. For example take a look at any popular fitness youtuber and the ab workouts they do/did back until like 2021, nothing that'll actually help you and mostly a waste of time but they trigger the "oh wow I'm gonna get something good" part of our brain and so most people accept it. Reviewers, like those fitness influencers, hail all the mediocre and subpar phones as revolutionary and dismiss actually revolutionary phones.
Samsung's sales won't tank because it's a Samsung and Apple has that reputation too so they've got that going for them. Samsung and Apple spend more on marketing than on the actual product, Chinese manufacturers make the mistake of overestimating the IQ of the average buyer and making actual Ultra phones, compared to Samsung and Apple who do the least for the most amount of profit they can gain. Then they sugarcoat it with some awesome marketing and let their fanboys and reviewers go wild.
For example, take a look at how many 14 Ultra reviews there are compared to the S24 Ultra. I do think the 14 Ultra is too expensive but in no way whatsoever is it a worse value than the S24 Ultra. It's just that the S24 Ultra is going to get price cuts from 1350 euros to like 1100 euros and then it's gonna be on par with the 14 Ultra in terms of value. Samsung's phones sell less at the MSRP, only like 10% of their phones sell at the MSRP, everyone gets all the deals and offers and discounts and then buys the phones. Add to that the easy availability, hundreds of reviews, the popularity of the phones, the security the Samsung name brings and a few other perks like that and the average consumer can still be sold Note9 hardware (with an S20 Ultra display) for 1350 euros nowadays.