The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 3 5G aims to be the every person’s foldable smartphone. It comes at a $999 price and it’s probably a far more understandable concept than its bigger Fold 3 5G brother, as it’s just a regular-shaped phone that can fold in half rather than a thin handset that unfolds into a tablet.
It’s actually startling how normal the Flip 3 5G looks when unfolded. You almost couldn’t tell it wasn’t a regular smartphone unless you spotted the crease or wondered why the back of the phone was bisected in the middle.
The Flip 3 5G offers a big, bright, and colorful 6.7-inch FHD+ display resolving a 2640 x 1080 resolution. That’s a little low by today’s standards on flagship phones, but amazingly this foldable display has an adaptive 120Hz refresh rate. Last year’s foldable displays were limited to just 60Hz, and this new handset just feels so much more smooth while scrolling and playing games.
The biggest improvement to the Flip 3 5G interface is the new Flex Mode Panel, which is essentially the slide-out multi-tasking menu taken from Samsung’s other flagship phones. Previously the Flip’s multi-tasking abilities were limited to fold the display halfway to look or take photos, but now you can split a greater number of apps
Additionally, the cover screen on the front of the phone has been enlarged to 1.9-inches from the original Flip’s 1.1-inch outer display. The new display can show up to four lines of notifications and it makes it just a little easier to check yourself out while shooting selfies or when someone else is taking a photo for you.
Speaking of cameras, the Flip 3 5G has a new 12MP ultrawide camera in addition to its main wide-angle 12MP camera and 10MP selfie camera. This compact folding phone also offers just as much power as its little brother with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 processor. But it’s limited to just 8GB of RAM and your storage options are 128GB and 256GB.
The most enticing about the Flip 3 5G is its $999 price, which effectively makes it the most affordable foldable phone yet. A grand is still a lot to ask and out of reach for many, but right now this seems like the most accessible device you can buy if you want to give foldable phones a shot.
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