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Dan Rice

Don't waste your money on a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5

Man putting Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 into suit pocket.

Samsung recently had its Galaxy Unpacked event in Seoul, South Korea where they announced a slew of new products including Galaxy Tab's and Galaxy Watch's. I think it's safe to say that most people were there for the Z line-up, which is Samsung's foldable phones. The Galaxy Z Flip 5 and the Galaxy Z Fold 5. Barring that new outer display on the Z Flip 5, which by the way looks like a Windows File Explorer icon if you flip it diagonally, there wasn't much to get excited about. 

I had high hopes for the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold line when it first arrived. I always assumed the Flip would have more incremental hardware updates with it being the device for the masses. The Fold though would be Samsung's way of really experimenting with hardware and pushing some boundaries. Over the course of the first couple of generations it seemed like Samsung were making pretty big improvements that would of course incur large research and development costs. It became very apparent from the third generation however that Samsung wasn't going down the route I hoped they would.

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