Samsung’s new Galaxy Z Fold 7 is an impressive device, but compared to the Pixel 9 Pro Fold’s reinvention, Google brought the bigger upgrade.
Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 7 is an impressive jump for the company’s book-style foldable, delivering a needed upgrade and some major improvements. But if we’re looking to crown the biggest upgrade in foldable history, I think Google’s Pixel 9 Pro Fold still earns that title.
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The Galaxy Z Fold 7 is a major, overdue upgrade for Samsung’s foldable. It’s drastically thinner and now matches the best in the world, while addressing almost every other complaint from past generations. A better camera, a wider cover display, a bigger inner screen, etc. Save for the stagnant battery size, Galaxy Z Fold 7 is better in virtually every way.
And in my use of the device so far, I’m super excited about that.
The best foldables on the market for the past couple of years have been from the like of Oppo and Honor and, while they’re fantastic in their own right, they’re not sold in large portions of the globe, and their software experiences certainly aren’t appealing for a huge number of people. That’s why the Pixel 9 Pro Fold has been my daily driver, because my alternatives were either iffy software from those brands, or underwhelming hardware from Samsung.
