Six years on, these super-refined folding phones feel like they’re losing their edge.
Refined, well-built folding phones with a smart new design. Fold6’s front screen is great. Sketch to Image is my favorite AI feature., with better durability, slimmer designs, brighter screens, and lighter weight. Every year we've seen small refinements, but these devices cost more than ever: The Fold6 starts at $1,900 and the Flip6 is $1,100—. I assumed we'd see far more apps supporting a multipane layout on the 7.6-inch screen instead of the blown-up version from a normal phone .
Other annoyances? I don't love the side-mounted fingerprint sensor on these phones anymore. I'm too used to accessing an in-display sensor, which is easier to reach with any hand holding the phone, but the capacitive sensor on the side often requires me to swap grips or use my other hand to unlock it.
The cameras now more closely match what you get on the Galaxy S24 series, and they're pretty great. I rarely had gripes with the resulting photos, though I wish Samsung stuffed a longer telephoto zoom camera here, like the 5X optical zoom on its Galaxy S24 Ultra. That said, Ilike the addition of Camcorder Mode on the Flip6—launch the camera, go to video mode, and put the fold at a 90-degree angle and sideways in your hand like you're holding a camcorder.
It's a great travel buddy, especially with the new updates to Samsung's Interpreter mode. Toggle on this mode and you can fold the screen to have your words translated into text on the external screen for the other person to see. They can tap a button on the external display to start talking, and their translated words will pop up on the internal screen.
Far and away the breakout AI feature, however, is Sketch to Image. I have spent more time than I'd care to admit drawing over my existing photos and adding hats and glasses to pictures of my dog, all generated based on my sketches. I had moments where it refused to generate sketches, like when my drawings were too far apart in the image. But when it works, it's shockingly good. Like when I added a UFO over the Louvre Pyramid.Samsung still needs to sort out its AI story though.
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