Bendy beasts

Not wanting to upset its design, the latest Samsung foldables bend a good chunk of the old tech into polished promise.

- Khumail Thakur

Samsung has always inaugurated the tech season with its Galaxy Foldable series launch, leaving little room for any other tech company to shimmy a product launch in the weeks around it.

However, the Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2023 event hero product is not actually the Fold but the Z Flip 5. Massive cover display and a proper flagship treatment under the hood means that this is the most promising flip smartphone money can buy.

The Z Fold 5 is an incremental upgrade over the previous smartphone but it’s not all gloom and doom. These upgrades slowly put Samsung’s Z Fold 5 back into the race with the competition. There have been improvements to the overall dimensions and weight. The Fold is now thinner and lighter. Samsung says the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 is 10 grams lighter than the Z Fold 4. This may sound like a day’s worth of gym activity rather than a year’s worth of innovation on paper but the hand feel is astonishingly comfortable.