News Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 vs Galaxy Z Fold 4: What's different?

[admin]

Our Galaxy Z Fold 5 vs Galaxy Z Fold 4 comparison will show you everything that's new and what's not.

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 vs Galaxy Z Fold 4: What's different? : Read more

 

[Extraneus]

'Unfortunately, the Galaxy Z Fold 5 sports the same narrow panel on the front. It's very usable, but not as and more comfy as than the Google Pixel Fold's too wide cover display, that's difficult to use one-handed.'

There, fixed...

 

[Borwick]

Our Galaxy Z Fold 5 vs Galaxy Z Fold 4 comparison will show you everything that's new and what's not.

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 vs Galaxy Z Fold 4: What's different? : Read more

Alas, my Blackberry grew old and forgetful and so I needed to upgrade to a similarly functional smartphone for business use. I type and compose documents a lot so in a keyboard-free mobile world I was looking for a decent typing function. Steve Jobs great contribution was to introduce us to typing on screens smeared with earwax rather than a retro keyboard, so I embraced the modern and bought a Z fold 4 in January.

Broadly, a nice phone to use if rather flashy. Samsung have continued to improve it in various marginal ways, which is good. I imagined that the 5 would be a step change but as the article shows, you have to try hard to spot anything of importance.

As a daily user for half a year, rather than fussy interactions between screens, Samsung should have concentrated on improvements to make their flagships as functional as Android Blackberries were 10 years ago.

I have the impression that Samsung's designers are likely a team of introvert kiddies who do not speak to one another much. Editing and simple keystrokes such as delete word left are missed out. Icons appear and disappear from the screens which may be good for playing games, somehow, but add little to every day functionality. So if you want to send a message it is anyone's guess where the icon to do that will have gone on the various screens or may have evaporated entirely.

There is a brief user manual on board but the interactions are so fussy and complicated that it hardly helps.

I wonder if Koreans have an oral tradition like the Norse Sagas and don't like to write much down. Working these flagships depends on folk lore and happening to find the.right youtube clip where someone has chanced on how to navigate the functions.

So for me the biggest innovation would be to get a knarly old Canadian phone designer in to make the things a bit more functional for everyday use. Back to the future ...

 

[MsJazz]

BTW, they could have piggybacked a micro-SD slot with the SIM tray for secure portable storage, instead of having to rely on the Cloud. And included a separate headphone jack to allow the phone to be charged while listening to wired audio, an S pen and a CHARGER. Considering this is a flagship, costing mucho dinero...