Good flippin’

Chipping away at the softer edges, the latest iteration of Samsung’s entry into the gymnastics gets flatter and slimmer...but is it more fun?

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from ₹89,999 / samsung.com/in

Flipping a phone open to answer a call, even if it’s a bank upping your credit limit, never gets old. Like the Galaxy Flip, which never looks old. While not much has changed since the Flip 3, for 2022 Samsung did get under the skin of the folding phone and made subtle improvements that may tilt you in its favour.

Samsung claims the hinge has gotten thinner and but in reality it’s an imperceptible change and more crucially, the resistance it offers is still the same. Which is to say, stiff. Any aspirations you may harbour of impersonating a senior office on the Starship Enterprise will be thwarted immediately. Once you do open the main screen, you do notice the marginally thinner bezels. What you also notice and feel is the crease along the centre, so Samsung clearly hasn’t yet found a way around this. On extremely bright backgrounds or dark and at most angles, it’s not a visual obstruction at all. It also enables the defining feature of the Samsung Flip series, the Flex mode!