Samsung's brand new z-flip 4.

 

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i think you'll struggle to tell the difference the aesthetic of the photos is very similar and most of the time you're just going to be impressed by the colors the sharpness and the subtle flattering face tuning that samsung cameras are starting to get quite advanced with and there is an advantage to being able to fold it means that a you can be a little more creative with it use it like a camcorder if you want i don't actually understand why you would do this you can take one continuous video while slowly pivoting the angle you can also take advantage of the fact you have a bend by propping up the phone,

And then just using palm recognition to get it to take a shot but also b what i'm more interested in is that you can now use this improved main camera system to take some of the best selfie photo and selfie video in the game and unlike quite a few companies who have offered the same thing i appreciate the fact that samsung has just committed to it you get almost the entire main camera feature set on the front you just double tap the power button to see the camera view,

And from there you can just swipe across and record full quality 4k video and swipe across again to get portrait mode i really like this touch you can also swipe up and down to switch between the main camera and the ultrawide camera and the fact that samsung is also working with companies like instagram snapchat whatsapp to try and integrate their camera features into those third-party apps i think it's fantastic i think this integration is exactly what android needs,

okay just before we get to the major con the final key perk of the z flip 4 are the folding features that samsung's specifically given to it we've had a feature called flex mode for a while now which basically means that for a handful of specifically optimized apps like youtube and google meet and microsoft teams your phone will smartly transition to a foldable optimized format at the point where you start folding your screen so for example this would let you have a google me call while the phone is propped up on your bed and starting now,

you can get a sort of flex mode for any app whether it's been developed with this in mind or not by following the phone now you have the option to force the app to the top half and summon up a bunch of commands on the bottom half things like the ability to skip through content to adjust your brightness being able to take a screenshot probably the most curious creator touchpad which brings up an actual cursor that allows you to use the top part of your screen,

like your computer love the concept i don't think the screen is big enough for it to actually be useful though so you've seen the four clear perks of affordable phone not to mention that ending a call like this is one of the most fun things you can do in your life so what's my beef well giving a phone the ability to fold is incredibly expensive it's expensive in terms of literal price you have to now get a flexible screen you have to build two displays instead of one display and that means that even though this is a thousand dollar phone the specs you're getting are closer to a 700 phone , 

but it's also expensive when it comes to the space because you now have to make room for an entire hinge mechanism in the middle of the phone and that comes at the cost of battery and cooling both of these were issues on the z-flip 3 it would usually just about scrape through a day of usage and i would also notice that its performance would start to take a dive with prolonged gaming sessions because the phone was getting so hot,

 but i'm not worried anymore a combination of a more efficient screen the ability to properly use the phone without fully unfolding it a jump in battery capacity from 3 300 milliamp hours to 3700 and a less power guzzling cooler snapdragon 8 plus gen 1 chip it should be enough to address both issues this is the key takeaway in 2019 there were about 0.7 million foldable devices sold in 2020 that almost tripled to 1.9 million and then in 2021 that almost quadrupled to 7.1 million most of them were samsung's so the reason that the z flip 4 is not a hugely ambitious phone is that samsung isn't under any pressure right now they have no relevant competitors and all they're,

doing here is just making minor improvements to their existing foldables to keep them updated and patiently waiting for the sails to just blow up it's a little lazy but that doesn't change the fact that i am starting to see the benefit of the flip phone now almost definitely the single biggest concern if you were going to get one of these is how do i actually protect it let me show you something this is a dbrand grip case and ever since i got one about six months ago,

i haven't taken it off my phone it makes it grippier in my hand it makes sure the phone doesn't slip out my pockets and it's also one of the few properly protective cases that also feels like it's had some care put into the user experience and so when i found out that they've just released grip for samsung's new foldables i had to get one and i can confirm it is every bit as precise and clicky as you would expect.

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