Samsung Galaxy Fold hands-on review

Source: Samsung Galaxy Fold hands-on review

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The Galaxy Fold is Samsung’s pioneering attempt at foldable-screen smartphones. Announced with the S10 family, it almost made them look ordinary and dated at the launch event. A few months later, we know the S10s are mighty good phones that we’d buy with our own money, but it’s still the Fold that excites us in a way a regular phone just can’t.

This Galaxy’s display is the size of a small tablet, giving you the best of both worlds – when unfolded it offers plenty of screen real estate for productivity (or, realistically, media hogs), but it has all the pocket benefits of a phone, albeit big and chunky.

That is, the crease mainly Advertisement. On the front is a secondary, smaller 4.6-inch panel, which Samsung calls the Cover Display. This is meant to be used for everyday one-handed tasks like checking the time and making voice calls when the full-blown tablet mode doesn’t really help.

Aside from the unorthodox display situation, the Galaxy Fold is not unlike the Galaxy S10+. The Snapdragon 855 ticks inside (no Exynos Fold variant though), there’s 12GB of RAM on board and the onboard storage is 512GB – so one of the high-end S10+.

Much like the S10s, the Fold has plenty of cameras – actually one more than the basic S10+. On the rear, it’s the same triple-module setup, with a combination of main, telephoto, and ultra-wide cameras.

Inside, it’s a duo of a primary 10MP selfie taker and an 8MP sidekick for depth sensing. You’d think they’d come straight from the S10+, but here the main lens is a little darker at f/2.2 versus f/1.9 – the fold halves aren’t as thick as an S10, so probably wasn’t enough available rooms?

The additional camera we mentioned is on the cover – another 10MP module like the one inside for snapping quick selfies without worrying about unfolding.

Samsung Galaxy Fold specifications

• Body: Foldable, ‘Innie’ – display folds inwards. 160.9 x 62.9 x 15.5mm folded, 160.9 x 117.9 x 6.9mm unfolded, 263g both folded and unfolded; Essential colors Space Silver and Cosmos Black, Martian Green and Astro Blue with Gold or Dark Silver hinges.
• Advertisement: Primary: 7.3″ Dynamic AMOLED Infinity Flex foldable display, 1536 x 2152 pixels, 4.2:3 aspect ratio, 362 ppi. Secondary (Cover): 4.6-inch Super AMOLED, 720 x 1680 pixels, 21:9 aspect ratio, 399 ppi.
• Backup camera: Wide-angle (main): 12 MP, 1/2.55-inch sensor, f/1.5-2.4 aperture, 26mm equiv. focal length (77° FoV), Dual Pixel PDAF, OIS. Telephoto: 12MP, 1/3.6″ sensor, f/2.4 aperture, 52mm equiv. focal length (45° FoV), PDAF, OIS. Ultrawide: 16MP, f/2.2 aperture, 12mm equiv. Focal length (123° FoV), fixed focus.
• Front camera: Main: 10MP, f/2.2 aperture, 25mm equiv. Focal length (80° FoV), PDAF. Secondary (depth only): 8 MP, f/2.2 aperture, 85° FoV, fixed focus lens.
• Cover Camera: 10 MP, f/2.2 aperture, 25mm equiv. Focal length (80° FoV), PDAF.
• Video recording: Rear: up to 4K 2160p at 60 fps, EIS up to 2160p at 30 fps, slow motion up to 1080p at 240 fps, super slow motion 720p at 960 fps for up to 0.4 s (12 s playback at normal speed); HDR10+ recording. Front: up to 4K 2160p@30fps with EIS.
• Operating system/software: Android 9.0 Pie, Samsung One UI.
• chipset: Snapdragon 855 (7 nm): Octa-Core CPU (1 x 2.8 GHz & 3 x 2.4 GHz Kryo Gold & 4 x 1.7 GHz Kryo 485 Silver); Adreno 640 GPU.
• Storage: 12GB RAM, 512GB storage, no microSD card slot.
• Battery: 4,380 mAh total, Li-Ion (sealed), 2-piece, 15W wired charging (Adaptive Fast Charging, QuickCharge 2.0 compatible), 15W Fast Wireless Charging 2.0, Wireless PowerShare.
• connectivity: Dual SIM – one nano, one eSIM (where available); LTE-A, 6-band carrier aggregation, Cat.18 (1.2 Gbit/s/150 Mbit/s); WLAN a/b/g/n/ac/ax MU-MIMO; GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo; NFC; Bluetooth 5.0. USB Type-C (v3.1), no 3.5mm jack.
• Various: Capacitive side-mounted fingerprint sensor doubles as Bixby button; stereo speakers

As you can see, as unique as the Fold is, it also has the ordinary parts that make every other phone like radios, speakers and a battery – maybe not enough battery, although there are two parts to it, one in each half .

We won’t worry too much about battery life at this point, leaving those practicalities for in-depth review. For now, let’s keep it simple and admire the crease for its foldability.

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