($ 5,) case . (Here’s how to watch Samsung’s Unpacked when it kicks off. The Galaxy Z Flip is likely to go down in history as the first foldable phone to introduce an ultra-thin glass screen that bends in half, a design element that promises to fix nearly every problem that befell early review units of the Galaxy Fold
glass that tops a foldable phone has to be thin enough to bend without breaking, but strong enough to protect the electronic display underneath. Ultrathin glass that measures as thick as a strand of human hair is likely to be the first to come to market, with other possibilities down the line, like a foldable glass made of diamond crystal .
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This render imagines how the Galaxy Z Flip phone’s hinge might look with the foldable phone opened up.
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With this smaller, and likely cheaper, flip model, Samsung has another chance to hook people who are interested in foldable phones. It also gives the brand an opportunity to prove that it can make a successful foldable phone .
The Galaxy Flip is expected to be smaller than Samsung’s Galaxy Fold from and rival the Motorola Razr flip phone , which went on sale Feb. 6 and failed CNET’s folding test . The Galaxy Z Flip could unfold into a 6.7-inch screen, unlike the Galaxy Fold, which has a 7.3-inch screen that bends in half to open like a book.
After only three significant devices in , foldable Phones still teeter on the edge of futuristic fancy and reality. Done right, they could double your usable screen space while still closing into a small enough rectangle to carry around. Done poorly, these expensive science experiments could confirm that ever-larger phones are the right way to make a phone.
Read on for everything we know and don’t know about Samsung’s next foldable phone.
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