T3 - UK (2020-10)

10 T3 OCTOBER 2020

Horizon

SOFT SELL

Samsung has

committed to

a three-year

Android OS

upgrade path.

So given that

it’s carrying a

Snapdragon 865+

processor and

12GB RAM, it’ll

likely keep up

with whatever

tomorrow’s

Android brings.

The best new tech heading your way

“An epic price... but

this is one epic phone”

Josh Russell, Editor

TECH-O-METER

SAMSUNG

GALAXY Z

FOLD2 5G

From £1,799, samsung.com

How luxury can a luxury phone be? If you’ve
spotted the price above – or, indeed, if you had
any exposure to the first generation of Galaxy Z
Fold – you’ll know that Samsung’s fantastical
flagship slots right in at the top of the market.
As well it should: the Galaxy Z Fold2 5G is a
totally unconventional feat of engineering. If the
first Fold was Samsung’s design team turning a
collective fever dream into a real thing, this is
Samsung employing an editor to pore through
that hastily scrawled dream journal to make it
make sense.
The hinged AMOLED screen is the obvious
eye-grabber. For this generation Samsung has
given the selfie camera a punch hole rather
than a notch, increasing available screen real
estate from 7.3 inches to 7.6; that’s a lot of
room to work with, and makes two- or even
three-app split screen multitasking an entirely
reasonable thing to do.
Samsung has worked to improve the hinge
from the first-gen Fold – it tucks itself entirely
away when the screen is open, can stand on its
own, includes a built-in cleaning mechanism to
hopefully keep dust out, and can sustain itself
for a rated 200,000 folds – as part of a
package which aims to fix every little niggle
present in the original. There are some things
it can’t yet make right, like the obvious
waterproofing issues of an inward-folding
hinge, but we’d presume the price means you’ll
keep this away from any running taps.