I don't want you to make the same mistake I almost did about the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5, and that's to treat it as a boring update. It's absolutely not.
This story is part of our Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2023 coverage The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 is the pinnacle of big-screen smartphones in 2023. I’m using it right now, and it’s spectacular. However, it’s not all that different from the Galaxy Z Fold 4, apart from changes to the size and weight. Boring! Where’s all the innovation and excitement?
Related But this is rapidly changing. The Z Fold 5 is 2.4mm thinner than the Z Fold 4 and 10 grams lighter too. It’s 18 grams lighter than the Galaxy Z Fold 3 and 2.6mm thinner, plus it folds completely flat, which neither of these two phones did. Go back even further, and the Z Fold 5 is nearly 30 grams lighter than the Galaxy Z Fold 2 and another millimeter thinner. Plus, it has gained an IPX8 rating, a lot more durability, and the bezels are noticeably smaller.
But thinner and lighter just isn’t all that exciting, is it? It’s not really an attention grabber when other phones have flashing lights, so where is the Galaxy Z Fold 5’s big feature that makes it a worthy successor to the previous versions that Samsung can use to prove it’s still a big innovator? You don’t have to look far. The Z Fold 5’s big innovative feature is the fact it opens up to show a massive 7.6-inch screen but remains perfectly usable when you close it back up.
Samsung’s folding smartphones don’t just have one big screen; they have two. Folding phones, in general, are also notorious for being more fragile than non-folding smartphones, and the hinge needs to be durable enough to reliably last for years of daily use. We want water resistance and scratch resistance, and Samsung has worked hard to consistently deliver, update, and improve all these things on the Z Fold series, and at the same time up the long-term durability.
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