Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 4
A good phone but a poor…
14/08/2023 19:28
If I look at the quality of this phone in isolation, it's great. The screen is good, the flip is novel (though I admit when I'm at home I just keep it unfolded on my desk or coffee table) and the software is Android with Samsung frills on it, so that's good too.
Where it falls down for me is that while it's an Android phone, the transition from my old phone (also an Android) to this was not simple. I downloaded the Samsung smart switch and it asked me to do it wirelessly, then plug a cable in, then do it wirelessly and so on and so forth. Eventually the two phones decided they would talk to each other and things moved forward. It was quite selective about what it would transfer over (for example it wouldn't transfer over saved WiFi credentials).
The quality of the phone itself is great. The front screen is good for quick glances and it paired well with my Samsung Smart Watch so both my phone and watch pester me about getting my step count in now.
The flip action is not like the flip phones of old, it isn't a one handed job unless you use those grip strengthening squeezy things. You need to hold it with one and open with the other, so not terribly good on the accessibility front perhaps?
A pain with Samsung is that it's menu is a horizontal scroll rather than vertical so it's not as easy to find an app beginning with W unless you have it on your homepages.
The camera is great and a novel discovery was that you can turn on the front screen when using the rear facing camera, so that you can use the bigger/better camera to take a selfie and make sure you're actually in shot first.
Overall it's a good phone, I'll get past the pain that was the first evening transferring it from my old phone and get used to it soon enough.
Having now spent two weeks with the flip 5 while it's useful having a bigger screen on the front I'm not entirely sure that the cost difference between a four and a 5 is justified by that and the other small changes between the two. The biggest screen is useful for reading texts and responding to WhatsApp messages and things like that however the smaller screen on the flip 4 with perfectly adequate for showing simple notifications and more often than not I find myself looking at a notification on the cover screen and then opening the phone to respond anyway. Being a Samsung phone most of the apps that can use the cover screen are Samsung own apps.
hinesal
St Albans , Spojené království
Age: 34
Gender: Female