Daily drove a Fold 3 for a little over a year, and just ordered a Fold 5. I kept the Fold 3 for a second year as a supplement to my current phone.
If you use a phone as strictly a phone - pictures, texting, calls, etc - then there is no real benefit especially at the price premium. Any phone can do those things.
Day to day, I found myself opening far less than I thought I would. The front screen is great for one-handed use.
If you consume content though, videos, movies, games, etc, or do a lot of productivity stuff on your phone(multitasking and using remote desktop on that thing is great) - the inner screen is incredible.
Yes - you can have multiple windows open on other phones, and even windowed applications - but its the large screen and Samsung’s particular implementation of them that make it so good. As Narrow_External_5412 said, some apps don’t play well with the aspect ratio of the screens and sometimes need to be closed entirely before re-opening.
Daily drove a Fold 3 for a little over a year, and just ordered a Fold 5. I kept the Fold 3 for a second year as a supplement to my current phone.
If you use a phone as strictly a phone - pictures, texting, calls, etc - then there is no real benefit especially at the price premium. Any phone can do those things.
Day to day, I found myself opening far less than I thought I would. The front screen is great for one-handed use.
If you consume content though, videos, movies, games, etc, or do a lot of productivity stuff on your phone(multitasking and using remote desktop on that thing is great) - the inner screen is incredible.
Yes - you can have multiple windows open on other phones, and even windowed applications - but its the large screen and Samsung’s particular implementation of them that make it so good. As Narrow_External_5412 said, some apps don’t play well with the aspect ratio of the screens and sometimes need to be closed entirely before re-opening.