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I Wish I Was Cool Enough to Need This Phone
My review of the Samsung Z Flip7
I get to test a lot of smartphones, but there’s one specific category I wish I were cool enough to actually need beyond the review period. These are otherwise known as ‘flip’ phones. You can think of them as normal-sized smartphones that fold in half. They’ve been around for a long time, and Samsung and Motorola make the best versions of them.
As I type, it’s the Korean company’s latest flippable pocket monster that’s getting all the attention, having been launched with much aplomb in Brooklyn at Samsung Unpacked earlier this month. I was at that event and picked up a review unit while there.
If truth be told, my focus since Unpacked has been on the Z Fold7, which is much more ‘me’, but I knew I needed to give the Flip7 some attention, which is why I spent an entire weekend with it to see if, finally, I could find an excuse to carry it around for the long term.
There’s One Key Spec…
The Z Flip7 has received one huge — literally — and obvious upgrade over its predecessor, which is the super-sizing of the external ‘Flex Window’. It’s now 4.1 inches diagonally (up from 3.4 inches), which is bigger, hilariously, than the original iPhone’s display.
