Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7 and Galaxy Z Flip7 Review: a promising update

Open it and you are treated on a huge 8 -inch screen, a decent size from the 7.6 -inch fold6, which makes it better for multitasking, since the apps can better use the space. I keep not thinking that multitasking is as fantastic as OnePlus Open, but I like some of the new improvements, such as the supplied window. This allows you to have two apps in a divided screen, but you can push one on the side so that it is mostly hidden but still quickly accessible.

Fortunately, the cameras have a little more equal with the Galaxy S25 Ultra, with the 200 MP main camera that offers clear results, regardless of the hour of the day. (It is possible to enable the 200 MP mode also for super detailed shots, even if you need good lighting for the best results.)

Photography: Julian Chokkattu

The more I used the fold7, the more I could not stop thinking about its price. At $ 2,000, you can buy a nice smartphone AND A powerful and big screen tablet. I prefer to have the 5x optical zoom camera on the Galaxy S25 Ultra against the 3x zoom limited on Fold7. And yes, even if I don’t use the S Pen a lot, I like to have the stylus to sign occasional documents and scribbles. (This fold7 no longer supports the S. pen) the battery life remains not very brilliant on Fold7, which barely lasts a whole day, and this is without a significant use of the wider internal screen; On S25 Ultra, you can easily go for a day and a half with a single charge.

When I’m on a tablet, I like to use it for the big screen real estate sector and some apps better use the extra space compared to Fold7. By default, Fold7 does not show apps like Gmail with a two -page view. It is necessary to go to view the settings and make the zoom screen smaller to enable this feature, but then everything seems a little smaller, which could defeat the purpose for people who prefer the largest screen for the readability (at least you can increase the size of the character). I’m not sure why this cannot be enabled as a predefined layout for apps like Gmail.

I liked my time with these phones and I think updates are a big step in the right direction. But I prefer what Motorola has done with his phones Razr Flip and the price of Fold7 is so high, but you still do not get high -end functionality such as the 5x optical zoom or the reliable duration of the battery. If annoyingly, there is still a lot of unnecessary works that you have to do with these phones to maximize their skills, but this is a problem that has long afflicted Samsung phones.