Folding smartphones, especially those who open and become a tablet, have always been I would like one but I can’t. A legitimate temptation, however disappointed by the proof of the facts, by the sentence to a certain existential immaturity.
The performing one was too often and heavy, sacrificing the portability that is the primary requirement of each phone; the one a little more on a diet had A disappointing battery and a photographic sector not up to the traditional top of the range, while costing more of the pro versions, with the sidereal memory and the exaggerated storage space. While, it must be said, the samples of lightness and subtlety seen in recent times, normally they have not proven capable of support the hardware with equally convincing software. Promoted in form, not the same in the functions.
In short, folding smartphones have always brought with them an original sin of incompletenessa certain propensity to compromise. Seductive, but abandoned. Worthy of a fleeting crush, not of a lasting relationship. At least, perhaps, so far. Because the new Galaxy Z Fold7 by Samsung it looks like that Quality leap expected for some time.
It is an evolution of the species, certainly not a revolutionwhich, however, stamped, adjusts, settles those critical issues that, to many, in the past made the flexible display exclude regardless.
If maybe they don’t win, they will never become an absolute majority in our pockets and bags, these products can at least try to play it on an equal footing. Or have a list of the longer pros of the cons. We enter in detail.
The lean factor
The numbers say little. They express, but they do not let reality perceive. The only evidence is the incontrovertibility of the comparison: the Galaxy Z Fold7 handled together with the Galaxy S25 Ultrathe flagship of the Korean house, weighs less. Even if in addition to a chip heart, it holds a second display. For the record, They are 215 grams. It is little, very little, for an object that is two in one. And as evidenced by the image below, it is also very thin: 8.9 millimeters from closed, 4.2 from Open. As you get on for traditional first models in the class, you forget you have it with you. The previous generations cluttered, protruded, they were very little comfortable, for example wearing tight jeans.
Samsung has no problem recognizing it: when it was launched on the market in 2019, the first fold It was 17.1 millimeters big. In that case say subtle was highly inappropriate. Now we are about half, 48 percent less to want to do the clarifications. It is a lot, it took many attempts and errors to get there.
The invitation is to put aside the reticence e go to the field test: Handle the smartphone, open it and then close it, put it in your pocket. We will join those who have decided to trust him on paper, or rather on the basis of his technical specifications: Samsung has made it known that the new Galaxy Z series recorded the highest number of pre -orders ever and that over half of the preferences went to the Z Fold7, with an increase greater than 50 percent compared to previous models. As if to say: weight and thickness descend, consent rises.
Is it better than inside?
The beauty of this smartphone is that we must not choose, that the two displays – that main 8 -inch main And the external one, let’s say to be closed to understand, 6.5 -inch – They are absolutely complementary, they tend to complete themselves, instead of competing. In daily use, the most intense and frequent one, the screen that is out makes the Z Fold7 work like a traditional phone. Do you have to reply to a message on WhatsApp, show the boarding card at the airport or jump between one song and another on Spotify? That’s where you will remain. With full use, given by the relationship 21: 9, and full accessibility with one hand: to say, you can get from one extreme to the other of the keyboard for compose a sentence without suffering. There is neither the feeling that it is too small, nor that it can slide while you are using it, ends ruinously on the ground.
It is when there is a need for more space, to expand, to use multiple applications at the same time, that the second screen comes to the rescue. Type long texts how complex emails and in the meantime having a document or a web page to consult, is quite comfortable, not to mention the reading of a book or the view of a video on YouTube. In the latter case there is some adjustments to do, but surely the eye earns it.
Without going into technical details, it is not the purpose of this revieweverything flows very fluidlyhe feels he has an ally for productivity and entertainment, which makes versatility his figure. It is a matter of places and ways: the closed screen gives its best When standingin motion, for example wandering around a city; The open one lends itself to the use of the bus, by train, sitting. Whenever you want to immerse yourself in your contents. And at home? Just as in the office, the phone is gigoning, shows off, captures the attention of those who notice it.
Thanks to zipper that lets him take the favorite position by the usertend to keep it ajar, semi-accused or almost deployed, as an interactive leggio available immediately. In the long run, what happens is a change of one’s relationship with the tool. The way of having it next to the desk evolves. Here we tend to use it more intelligently.
It’s not all gold …
This does not want to be a desired Ode of the Galaxy Z Fold7 but a factual evaluation of the changes, so far for the better. It must be said that weight loss, like any diet, has imposed sacrifices. First of all, the most evident, that of the nib: if the reader has never used it, nor bearsed, it could see it as a further point to its advantage. But since it is a tool for productivity that has entered the habits of many, It could happen to miss it.
The other central point concerns the battery, which was then the focal point of the debate – enthusiasm aside – followed by the launch of the smartphone: we are at 4,400 mAh, less than top of the range with a single screen. A capacity that however must support clear and bright screens. If the question is if you get to the end of the day, it would not be sensible to answer a full yes. Not because it fails regardless, but as It depends on the use that makes itfrom the frequency with which the tablet version is used. Certainly, dramatic discharges do not take place. The processor is forever a Snapdragon of Qualcomm, it ended – it happened with other chips – the time in which two photos were enough and a call to lose 10 percent autonomy. Moreover, by carbbing with energy savings, you get far away even when it is a little charge.
Camera sidewe are not at the levels of the Galaxy S25 Ultra, but also thanks to the many on -board functions of automatic retouching of the images lit by artificial intelligence, The average user can be said to be widely satisfied. Also because the gain in terms of usability and ductility is widely greater. Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold7, in summary, It is a test of maturity. A folding that does not bend to compromises.
