Samsung unveiled today locally Your new folding screen smartphone, the Galaxy Z Flip, in a more aggressive commitment to capture the mass adoption of this technology with a more compact design and a more accessible price than similar offers of the company.
While previous models such as the Galaxy Fold have a fold along the unit, acquiring dimensions similar to that of a tablet when deployed, the Z Flip takes a different approach, when taking a smartphone with 6.7-inch screen and adding a fold to the width of the unit, reducing its size in half. The result is an extremely compact device and easy to insert in a pocket or purse, but with the features of a “premium” type phone.
“We have great expectations with the acceptance of this model,” said Claro Puerto Rico president and chief executive Enrique Ortiz de Montellano, in an interview with The new day.
The presentation of the unit, which was carried out in one of the supplier’s stores in the Plaza Las Américas shopping center, coincides with a Claro offer of 25% discount of the unit price by taking advantage of an unlimited company plan.
For its part, Gianmarco Leri, product manager of Samsung Latin America, highlighted the features of the unique model even when the device is closed. “You won’t miss anything,” Leri said, showing a small exterior screen of just over an inch that provides information every time a call or text enters.
“You can also take a‘ selfie ’with the phone closed; you just press these two buttons and the outer screen shows you what the camera captures, ”he added as he ran his hand from side to side, as a greeting, to tell the camera to take a picture.
When the phone opened, The screen can be kept flat, without any indication of bending, just like L-shaped, which lends itself to several interesting uses, such as using the lower half of the screen for one application and the upper part for another. This mode, which Samsung calls Flex Mode, gives a “hands-free” touch to the device that adds to its appeal, according to executives.
From the left: Gianmarco Leri, product manager of Samsung Latin America; Won Choi, Business Manager of Samsung Electronics; Miss Universe Puerto Rico Madison Anderson Berrios, and Enrique Ortiz de Montellano, president and CEO of Claro Puerto Ric
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When the company launched the Galaxy Fold in early 2019, the unit suffered from damage to the fold of its screen, requiring the company to make temporary arrangements to the design. With the Flip Z, it is clear that the company learned its lesson. “This time we put a layer of fiber on the spine, which makes the phone open and close easily and do not enter water or dust, which is what happened with the first version of the Fold, ”explained Leri.
The Flip Z screen is a dynamic Super AMOLED, with a superfine glass cover that, according to Leri, is also durable and scratch resistant. It has a 12 megapixel outdoor camera, capable of capturing 4K and 10+ HDR video, and a ten megapixel “selfie” camera. In its entrails runs a Snapdragon 855+ chip, with a storage of 256 gigabytes (GB) and an 8GB memory.
The Flip Z also has a price of about $ 1,300, in contrast to that of the Fold, which approximates $ 2,000. Leri made the caveat that the Fold remains in its own category and that a second version of the Fold, scheduled to be released soon, will address many of the concerns surrounding its predecessor.
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