Pump up the clam

Do some shrewd improvements to Samsung's ever-popular clamshell mean it's now a better option than the boringly un-folding Galaxy S24?

- Tom Morgan

I've long thought Samsung's flip phones were the best of the breed, but all came with caveats compared to their non-folding counterparts. This one narrows the gap so much you'll need a microscope to measure it.

There's flagship Qualcomm silicon inside the Galaxy Z Flip6 no matter where you live in the world, so it has a clear power advantage over European S24s and their Exynos processors. A considerably beefier battery brings it level for capacity, and both phones now have the same optically stabilised 50MP main camera.