{"id":201383,"date":"2020-02-12T09:58:30","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T06:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ww-vb.mine.nu\/w108\/samsung-galaxy-z-flip-hands-on-a-folding-phone-with-a-glass-screen\/"},"modified":"2020-02-12T09:58:30","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T06:58:30","slug":"samsung-galaxy-z-flip-hands-on-a-folding-phone-with-a-glass-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/samsung-galaxy-z-flip-hands-on-a-folding-phone-with-a-glass-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Galaxy Z Flip Hands On: A Folding Phone With a Glass Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>There\u2019s a new folding phone in town. <em>Another<\/em> folding phone. The thing we\u2019re not entirely sure people want yet. No matter! Samsung has just released its second smartphone with a flexible display. This one is called the Galaxy Z Flip, and it will have a base price of $1,380 when preorders start February 14.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, after waiting in a designated press room for an hour or so at the Letterman Digital Arts Center in San Francisco, I got my hands on the thing.<\/p>\n<p>A folding phone is, of course, a phone with a flexible display. The display itself bends and creases, so that the device can morph into something smaller. But when it\u2019s open, it\u2019s one long display. This may seem obvious, but for people of a certain age, a folding phone or flip phone was one that had a small screen up top and a keypad on its bottom half, connected by a hinge. You snapped it shut. I was there too. I share your memories.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung\u2019s first folding phone, last year\u2019s Galaxy Fold, had a disastrous start, with devices that broke after a few days. Even Galaxy Folds that worked fine\u2014like the loaner unit I used for about a month\u2014forced a change in behavior that just didn\u2019t feel natural. Text messaging on a 7.3-inch touchscreen display was awkward. So was using the Fold\u2019s 4.6-inch \u201ccover\u201d display. Also: <em>Why<\/em>? Why folding phones?<\/p>\n<figure class=\"asset-embed\">\n<div class=\"asset-embed__asset-container\"><span class=\"responsive-asset asset-embed__responsive-asset responsive-asset--invisible\"><picture class=\"asset-embed__responsive-asset responsive-image\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"the new samsung zflip phone \" class=\"responsive-image__image\" src=\"https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/5e430a80184f8b000920430f\/master\/w_1600%2Cc_limit\/Gear-Samsung-Galaxy-Z-Flip_Open-Back_Purple-Mirror_RGB.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/5e430a80184f8b000920430f\/master\/w_1600%2Cc_limit\/Gear-Samsung-Galaxy-Z-Flip_Open-Back_Purple-Mirror_RGB.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/5e430a80184f8b000920430f\/master\/w_1280%2Cc_limit\/Gear-Samsung-Galaxy-Z-Flip_Open-Back_Purple-Mirror_RGB.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/5e430a80184f8b000920430f\/master\/w_1024%2Cc_limit\/Gear-Samsung-Galaxy-Z-Flip_Open-Back_Purple-Mirror_RGB.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/5e430a80184f8b000920430f\/master\/w_768%2Cc_limit\/Gear-Samsung-Galaxy-Z-Flip_Open-Back_Purple-Mirror_RGB.jpg 768w, https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/5e430a80184f8b000920430f\/master\/w_640%2Cc_limit\/Gear-Samsung-Galaxy-Z-Flip_Open-Back_Purple-Mirror_RGB.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"100vw\"\/><\/noscript><\/picture><\/span><\/div><figcaption class=\"caption asset-embed__caption\"><span class=\"caption__text\"><\/p>\n<p>Samsung included a row of nylon fibers inside the phone&#8217;s hinge to protect against debris that could interfere with the flipping action.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"caption__credit\">Photograph: Samsung<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Samsung is asking for a do-over with the Galaxy Z Flip. The phone is smaller, and it folds from the top down, rather than sideways. When it\u2019s unfurled, the phone has a vertically long display that measures 6.7 inches on the diagonal. (Bizarrely, this also gives it a 21.9 by 9 aspect ratio.)<\/p>\n<p>When it\u2019s closed, the Galaxy Z Flip is infinitely more pocketable than a standard phone. It fit in my back pocket better than my iPhone 11. A friend who was monitoring the Samsung event sent me a photo of a makeup compact, and after that I couldn\u2019t unsee the similarities. The closed Galaxy Z Flip looks like a big, shiny, glass-coated, worth-a-month\u2019s-rent makeup compact.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than jam some kind of half-useful cover display on the closed Flip like it did with the Fold, Samsung opted for a tiny display window on the closed Flip. This mostly shows the time, but when you press the physical buttons on the side of the phone, it doubles as the world\u2019s smallest viewscreen. This is so you can see yourself as you capture selfies, obviously.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"asset-embed\"><figcaption class=\"caption asset-embed__caption\"><span class=\"caption__text\"><\/p>\n<p>When folded up, the phone is 0.68 inches (17.3 millimeters) thick.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"caption__credit\">Video: Samsung<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The phone\u2019s case is aluminum, and the outside is coated in glass. It screams premium. But here\u2019s the interesting part: The Z Flip\u2019s flexible display is <em>also<\/em> made of glass, Samsung says. Every version of a folding device we\u2019ve seen before this has had a flexible polymer display. Royole\u2019s FlexPai, Samsung\u2019s Galaxy Fold, Lenovo\u2019s ThinkPad X1 Fold, Motorola\u2019s resurrected Razr (which, based on my brief experience with a loaner unit, had a hard-to-ignore crater where it creases)\u2014all of them use flexible plastic. Some glass makers like Corning and Japan\u2019s ACG are believed to be working on ultrathin folding glass displays, but Samsung has actually leapfrogged those companies and brought one to market first.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/samsung-galaxy-z-flip-hands-on\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] There\u2019s a new folding phone in town. Another folding phone. The thing we\u2019re not entirely sure people want yet. No matter! Samsung has just released its second smartphone with a flexible display. This one is called the Galaxy Z Flip, and it will have a base price of $1,380 when preorders start February 14. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":201384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49621,128854,59580,22045],"class_list":["post-201383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tie-world","tag-android","tag-folding-devices","tag-phones","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}