The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 has a bunch of small changes throughout its spec sheet. But its best upgrade is hiding in plain sight.
This story is part of our Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2023 coverage If a building is 2.4mm higher than another building, you probably won’t notice. If one room is 2.4mm larger than another, you won’t be able to fit more stuff in it. But the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 is 2.4mm thinner than the Galaxy Z Fold 4, and take it from me: you will notice. Not only that, but the new hinge design enables the phone to fold flat, so there’s no more gap.
Related Folded up, the Galaxy Z Fold 5 is 67.1mm wide, while the Honor Magic Vs and the Oppo Find N2 are both 72mm wide. For comparison, the Galaxy S23 is 70.9mm wide. Both Oppo and Honor’s phones are billed as more “phone-like,” which is somewhat true but only in terms of the cover screen’s size, as because both are at least 13mm thick, they never feel like a non-folding phone in your hand.
However, if you found it a pain to type on, this won’t be any different. Sure, it is a bit cramped, and typing quickly and accurately only happens after practice. There is a learning curve, but here’s the other thing: I think holding the phone with one hand and swipe-typing with the other feels more natural on the Z Fold 5 than the Z Fold 4; I put it down to the new fold-flat hinge, and the 10-gram drop in weight.
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