ISSUE 72 • ANDROID ADVISOR 35Mode kicks in, letting you rest the bottom half of
the screen on a table and adjust the top for optimal
viewing. (I found that when the screen was bent to
around 75 degrees, it slowly drooped until it fell flat.)
A few apps are optimized with bottom controls and
a top viewing area – YouTube, Duo, Camera and
Gallery – but even ones that aren’t optimized work
surprisingly well.
For example, when typing a note, the keyboard
naturally took up most of the bottom screen, so it
felt like I was typing on a tiny laptop. The flexibility
was handy when holding the Flip as well. Bending
the screen while using it helped with both glare and
ergonomics, and made the 6.7in screen feel much
more manageable than the Note 10+. There’s noWhen using the Galaxy
Z Flip on a table, the
keyboard turns it into a
tiny laptop