We finally got our hands on the new Samsung Galaxy Fold, folding smartphone! Read on for our first impressions and a first look at Samsung’s next flagship phone.
We saw the Samsung Galaxy Fold announced a while back, but we didn’t get to actually use it. The Galaxy Fold is among a few new smartphones that feature a flexible folding screen. These phones are generally normal sized smartphones when folded, at least from one angle, and they’ll unfold to a larger square shaped tablet-like device. The Samsung Galaxy Fold was the first to be announced, but today we’ve finally got a chance to actually try it out. It’s got the “inside fold” style folding, so that when folded, the larger screen is on the inside, while a smaller secondary screen is on the outside. Others use the “outside fold” method where there is only a folding screen on the outside that wraps around the device like a book cover.
My first impressions of the Galaxy Fold are mixed. Yes, it’s definitely something new and innovative which has been lacking in the smartphones market for years (decades?) Yes, it’s kind of beautiful. Yes, having that large screen for multi-window apps that can float or snap into three panels is pretty awesome. But it also feels a bit foreign and possibly difficult to use. It may take some getting used to, and we only got to use it for about an hour so far.
The Samsung Galaxy Fold has 3 cameras on the outside and two on the inside. The cameras are all the same as what you’ll find on the Galaxy S10 that some of you may already own. The outside cameras are all 12 megapixels with wide angle, ultra-wide angle, and 2x telephoto lenses that you can switch between.
Running 3 apps running simultaneously, all at the same time is pretty cool.
