Someone has to land first exploring a market, but we all knew that the Samsung Galaxy Fold was kind of a prototype ahead of its time … And it’s the Galaxy Z Fold2 that proves it!
It was undoubtedly the open secret of the UNPACKED 2020, and although the truth is that he tiptoed past an event where the protagonists were the Galaxy Note20 Ultra and how they would be placed in a large high-end Android, the guys at Samsung also taught us for the first time the new Galaxy Z Fold2.
We are talking not about the second folding iteration of Samsung, but the third, and that is this second Galaxy Fold is a perfect mix between what was something like a very expensive commercial prototype and the first of the Samsung folding that we can consider a finished product, which is none other than the Galaxy Z Flip.
Samsung itself has shown that the first Galaxy Fold should not have existed
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Samsung had already told us that the “Z” seemed good to them as a name for its new range of folding smartphones, because this letter highlighted that flexible character, and even though the Galazy Z Fold2 has a rather squeaky name we must recognize that this time its design we do like: the new Galaxy Z Fold2 is without a doubt what the Galaxy Fold should have been.
And yes, Samsung itself has been in charge of making it clear that the original Galaxy Fold arrived too early, poorly prepared and with a lot to solve, which only two iterations later have been practically completely solved except for the durability of the flexible panel and the possibility of integrating the S-Pen.
The new Samsung Galaxy Z Fold2 shows us that the first generation Galaxy Fold should never have been or should exist, because in reality it was just a very expensive prototype with more unknowns than answers
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An image -or several- is worth a thousand words
The video that we show you speaks for itself, along with the images that follow, and that is The improvements to the Galaxy Z Fold2 are so obvious that they completely make a fool of the first generation of the Galaxy Fold, mixing the concept also with the hinge of the Galaxy Z Flip.
In fact, on the screens and on the hinge were practically all the evils of the original Fold, which offered to begin with an overstretched and almost unusable 4.6 inch exterior panel so that the mobile was really useful while it was closed.
The stretched 4.6-inch screen never made sense
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To avoid it, the new Galaxy Z Fold integrates a 6.2-inch Infinity-O panel on the outside that takes advantage of the entire front of the device, also very stretched but to a lesser extent and with a much more usable size.
Not only that, and it is that inside the Galaxy Fold suffered from a flexible panel covered by a very sensitive plastic polymer, which has been replaced by the ‘Ultra Thin Glass’ released by the Galaxy Z Flip, and that improves not only the touch but also durability by implementing a layer system with an ultra-thin glass film covered with a new plastic polymer with better touch and greater resistance.
Fortunately, inside we will no longer see that horrible asymmetric ‘notch’
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Also, we will no longer see the horrible notch asymmetrical gigantic size in the upper right of the internal panel, because now the screen is not only larger with up to 7.6 inches and a better format, but also implements a hole for the inner camera leaving more space for the image.
In fact, the images leave no doubt of the enormous improvement in the amount of usable screen, both outside and inside, making the Galaxy Z Fold2 what we all expected from the first Galaxy Fold.
The two Galaxy Folds, in scale sketches
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All this without forgetting a complete improvement at a constructive level, not only in the hinge that now allows different positions and has bristles that prevent dust and dirt from damaging the mechanism, but also in its size and thickness.
The Galaxy Z Fold2 is practically equal in size to the Galaxy Fold but has much larger screens, and it is also thinner at 16.8 millimeters at its thickest instead of 17.1 millimeters, and 13.8 millimeters instead of 15.7 in the thinnest part while folded.
Another thing will be what it costs, nobody said to be a early bird it was going to be cheap but There is no doubt that the Galaxy Z Fold2 has greatly improved the concept initiated by Samsung with the Galaxy Fold first generation. And to you, what do you think of the new Samsung folding? We bought?
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