Foldables don’t usually get my juices flowing. The sad fact is that while I like the “idea” of a folding phone, the sheen quickly dulls, and I’m left reeling from the compromises. Even after just a few hours of playing with the brand-new Galaxy Z Fold 8, I think it reinforces that wide foldables were always the right decision.
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Wide and wieldy
Much has been made of what Apple is going to do when the company finally drops its own take on a folding device at some point in the not-too-distant future, and I think that has lit a fire under Samsung to think more broadly about where the Galaxy Z Fold series could and should have gone from the very get-go.
Whether it is a rebuttal to the eventual Apple take on the genre, I do think that Samsung has absolutely nailed the fundamentals of a wide foldable in ways that Google was unable to do with the original Pixel Fold.
