Samsung Galaxy Z Fold6 review
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- jiyen235
- XQQ
- 18 Jul 2024
Anonymous, 18 Jul 2024For people who trade in their phones, it's a very good... morewait, why not trade-in with the old Fold? There's no reason to do that as well, you save a few bucks.
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- Anonymous
- 84G
- 18 Jul 2024
jiyen235, 18 Jul 2024I'll admit, the displays on this phone are amazing, th... moreFor people who trade in their phones, it's a very good reason to get it, but as for people who buy it as a new phone then yea LG I see no reason except status symbol and die hard fans.
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- Anonymous
- X@V
- 18 Jul 2024
i am definitely not in to a fold or flip phone,those crease just hurt my eyes...lol
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- Jimbob
- LhW
- 18 Jul 2024
So the cameras havent changed at all but they sneakily decide to make them look so much bigger to fool people..
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- Anonymous
- atq
- 18 Jul 2024
What's interesting is how close the xiaomi foldable comes in performance with a snapdragon 8gen2. So what we have here is a small phone when opened out turns into an equally small tablet with a visible crease. You get almost 10hours less on calls than the previous generation, you get back home after using it as a phone to find out battery needs charging before you can even attempt to use it as a tablet and this will take over 1hour 30min. Finally you open your tablet to play warzone mobile only for it to overheat due to poor thermals. Oh and the camera is three years old.. All this for more than a galaxy s24 ultra. Samsung should pay us just to use this monstrosity.
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- Anonymous
- Brt
- 18 Jul 2024
Repackaging 101, samsung is becoming the new apple
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- Core
- mD0
- 18 Jul 2024
B52, 18 Jul 2024Still the same, overprices, useless cr@p as usual. You c... moreFor what it's worth, I got way more mileage out of Fold5 speakers than out of S24 Ultra speakers. Mostly cos the Fold5 is designed so that when you hold it opened up, you can easily do so without covering the speakers. Most of the time when using my S24 Ultra horizontally my hands in natural positions were blocking BOTH of the speakers and all I got was muffled crap sound and I had to actively keep my hands so that I wouldnt block the speakers.
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- watch5
- sr%
- 18 Jul 2024
How normal is it to pay €2000 for something that is just a redesigned Fold 5 from last year that can now be bought for €1000?
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- Core
- mD0
- 18 Jul 2024
Went to a retailer to try it out a bit. I used a Fold5 for like 6 months and mostly hated the narrow cover screen. It's actually quite a bit better now, although it could still be a little better. Ofc also nice that its slimmer and lighter too. It's definitely kinda disappointing that the cameras and battery and charging are still the same, but other than they charging they werent too bad to begin with. Its just lazy to recycle to same cameras for 3 generations. One exception though, the inside selfie camera is still absolute worthless garbage that should not exist. It is not an acceptable quality for a work video conference and its not usable for anything. Its awful workflow to close the phone just to take a snapchat selfie of acceptable quality.
But yeah, will probably get this with Samsung Full Flex to try out at least for some months. Ive missed my Fold5 and in the end this is still a little better in the ways that were the most problematic for me. Had an S24 Ultra but while it was nice, I miss the big tablet screen in my pocket
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- B52
- gLC
- 18 Jul 2024
Still the same, overprices, useless cr@p as usual.
You can not benefit from a bigger screen with such aspect ratios.... Maybe browsing is okay, but a 16:9 video stream will barely bigger as on S24U.
And you get worse audio quality, worse battery runtime, a huge brick when closed, slow charging, almost no IP protection, no wifi 7, worse SAR, no pen and somewhat worse camera specs as well - for ~1000EUR more.
One must really-really be crazy to choose this.
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- ua82
- m7a
- 18 Jul 2024
So the battery life and charging speed has actually behind the Galaxy Z Fold 5 , whilst increasing the price great job Samsung
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- Anonymous
- XNt
- 18 Jul 2024
Roberthxx, 18 Jul 2024Chipset is still the latest and greatest. But battery capac... moreYou need a good adapter
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- Chavis
- 0Bh
- 18 Jul 2024
A larger and wider cover screen (like the competition's) would have made it more practical to use closed while you are on the go.
- David 040882
- spY
- 18 Jul 2024
raj, 18 Jul 2024"All other foldables have larger and wider cover scree... moreThe whole idea of foldables (except the flip-style ones) is to have as big as a screen possible when unfolded
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- raj
- vbe
- 18 Jul 2024
"All other foldables have larger and wider cover screens" why gsmarena is forcing the brands to make the phones bigger and bigger!
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- Roberthxx
- MNS
- 18 Jul 2024
Chipset is still the latest and greatest. But battery capacity, charging speed, base memory is disappointing.
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- Milan987
- gyg
- 18 Jul 2024
mrleft, 18 Jul 2024"All other foldables have larger and wider cover scree... moreI don't agree with you. I also don't have big hands, but for 2000€ I want a LARGE DISPLAY with high resolution where significantly more information can be displayed. For example larger Excel spreadsheets, 2 different multitasking screens that I'm working on at the same time, etc. You need to have a mobile phone that still fits in your pocket, but when unfolded it is the biggest it can be. And I will also give €3,000 if there are top cameras.
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- jiyen235
- XQQ
- 18 Jul 2024
I'll admit, the displays on this phone are amazing, the bezels are nice as well. The speakers are the best Samsung speakers I'd say.
The charging speeds being slower whilst the battery is slightly worse overall like yikes man. If that's not a problem of complacency idk what is. I expected them to have better battery life like the S24 Ultra did compared to the S23 Ultra, but damn, they still expect people to pay more, for less now?
My question is, what do these phones do so well that you just want to go get the latest one? That's supposed to be the thing that changes stuff. Like genuinely, I don't see any reason for someone to buy this phone when they can just buy the older one and save a few bucks. The older one folds, has AI features, has a bright screen and good speakers, cameras are the same, charging is actually faster and the only bad thing is that it doesn't have some solid protection. But these foldables are super fragile and just break all the time so that isn't a huge plus either. I'm genuinely curious who wants this foldable and not the old one apart from the "new is good!11" crowd. More power is not needed for a display as small as this, idk what sort of rocket science you're gonna do on a tiny 7.6" screen, after using 11+ inch tablets I wonder what people do on a small foldable.
Like, for example Apple always tries their best to make the monkey brain in people go "woah i need dat", 11 series had 3 cams, 12 series had a different design, 13 series had a smaller notch and better cams, 14 series had the dynamic island, the base 15 series now have the dynamic island. I don't think USB Type-C is a big enough change for an average person so the 15 series is one of the worst Apple releases (not even gonna talk about titanium like who cares lol).
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- Anonymous
- a4P
- 18 Jul 2024
Still same old battery and cameras.... How about no!
If I wanted to pay v6 prices for the v4 I'd have purchased the v4 two years ago.