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Carrie Marshall

Samsung accidentally invents the folding iPhone... sort of

Samsung Try Galaxy app

If you're excited by the idea of a folding iPhone and would love to know what it might be like, help is coming from an unexpected source: Samsung. Its Try Galaxy web app is designed to encourage iPhone owners to switch to Samsung's best folding phones, and it's just been updated to include the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Z Flip 5 – so if you have two iPhones kicking around (and who doesn't?) you can sit them together and see what it'd be like to have a folding iPhone, or a Galaxy Z Fold.

The app does this via a simple but effective split view: it takes half of the Z Fold screen and puts it on your first iPhone, and then it takes the second half and puts that on the other. The interface is Samsung's One UI 5.1.1, and it comes with all the features you'd expect from the real thing including Samsung's health and fitness app, Quick Share and the Galaxy Fold's Flex mode, which enables you to take selfies and other snaps from unusual angles.

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