Samsung Galaxy Fold: the future is open to you
The Samsung Galaxy Fold is set to launch the era of foldable smartphones. A first look at a device that looks like no other.
Samsung has just unveiled the Galaxy Fold; the long-awaited foldable smartphone.
The Samsung Galaxy Fold has specs that have, until now, been considered absurd. 12GB of RAM and an Octacore system-on-chip (SoC). Which is not yet known, but if the theory holds water, it could be a Snapdragon. After all, the phone supports 5G. Does the new Exynos do it too?
But it's the screens that make the Galaxy Fold interesting. When folded, the device is small. It has a diagonal of 4.8 inches. When open, its diagonal increases to 7.3 inches. That should make the Fold smaller, but perhaps thicker. I can live with that. A battery is built into each side of the phone, the two together delivering 4380 mAh.
How the software handles the screens
The Samsung Galaxy Fold offers very little new on the software side. But on the hardware side, Samsung has had to go through everything. The articulation in the foldable smartphone has not only opened up new features and possibilities, but also presented Samsung engineers with new challenges.
The Fold must meet aesthetic requirements and not look like a prototype or have unattractive features. Samsung engineers have achieved this by creating the joint from numerous moving parts and concealing them elegantly.
The Fold must not look like a prototype or have unattractive features.
At a software level, however, the screen must be used. For Samsung, more space means not only more surface area for apps like Google Maps or Netflix, but also more multitasking. On one half of the screen, you can see one app large, with two others sharing the other half of the screen. You can control the prioritisation of apps by drag and drop.
If you only use one app, then Samsung has configured the phone with a feature called App Continuity so that the folded mode app automatically spreads across the large screen. Automatically. I'd expect nothing less.
Costly, but forward-thinking
The Samsung Galaxy Fold will be available in Switzerland from May. But it won't be cheap. Although the final price is not known, based on international prices, we can speculate that the price will be around 2,000 francs.
Will Samsung manage to conquer the vast market with the Fold? Probably not. I don't think the main interest of the South Korean group is to dominate the market, but rather to be the first to set a trend and make history.
Will Samsung be able to conquer the vast market with the Fold?
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