Samsung Launches New Galaxy Z Fold6 and Z Flip6 Smartphones, Earbuds, and More

[iMac The Knife]

Queue the "I can't stand the crease" commenters, none of which have ever actually owned a foldable. It is fine to say you don't like something, but to say you don't like a product that you've never owned and actually experienced is ridiculous. And by the way "I saw one in Best Buy", or "my friend showed me theirs once" clearly doesn't count as ownership. I try out all sorts of smartphones and tech gadgets every year, because I like to make educated decisions. I was very hesitant when I first got my Z Fold 3 a few years ago. It was my first foldable, so I didn't know what to expect. Once I got to experience it though, it was game over for slab phones as my primary device. I sold my iPhone 12PM, gave my wife my iPad Mini, and I've never looked back.

 

[spinedoc77]

Whether it was Picasso, Igor Stravinsky, Banksy or Jobs who have all been attributed said it, the points exists. Taking an idea, extending it and making it your own takes courage and ability. Personally, I wouldn’t call any of those an idiot, I can’t place myself in a situation where I feel qualified to judge them.

E.A. Bucchianeri: "Art is in the eye of the beholder, and everyone will have their own interpretation." You can plug Apple OR Samsung into your equation of "taking an idea, extending it, and making it your own," but whether it is actually artistry is up to the consumer. It gets frustrating to hear the same old supposition that Apple is the courageous one and Samsung just copies them, that's specifically what I call idiotic. In particular when Samsung has the "courage" to do crazy things like a phablet, a stylus enabled smartphone, a freakin' foldable phone, etc. No offense to Apple I think they have great products, but reducing an already hideous and functionally limiting notch by .004% isn't the pinnacle of courage for me.

 

[spinedoc77]

Queue the "I can't stand the crease" commenters, none of which have ever actually owned a foldable. It is fine to say you don't like something, but to say you don't like a product that you've never owned and actually experienced is ridiculous. And by the way "I saw one in Best Buy", or "my friend showed me theirs once" clearly doesn't count as ownership. I try out all sorts of smartphones and tech gadgets every year, because I like to make educated decisions. I was very hesitant when I first got my Z Fold 3 a few years ago. It was my first foldable, so I didn't know what to expect. Once I got to experience it though, it was game over for slab phones as my primary device. I sold my iPhone 12PM, gave my wife my iPad Mini, and I've never looked back.

My take on it is it's ok to hate the crease. Personally I don't love it, but it completely fades away after using it for a day or 2 and doesn't bother me in the least. But I totally get where others are coming from and I think it's a 100% legitimate complaint for those considering dropping near $2k on a phone. Samsung did a terrible job this year and kept pretty much the same crease when other companies have almost completely eliminated it.

 

[iMac The Knife]

My take on it is it's ok to hate the crease. Personally I don't love it, but it completely fades away after using it for a day or 2 and doesn't bother me in the least. But I totally get where others are coming from and I think it's a 100% legitimate complaint for those considering dropping near $2k on a phone. Samsung did a terrible job this year and kept pretty much the same crease when other companies have almost completely eliminated it.

Yes, that is one of my favorite things about the OnePlus Open, it has no crease. You can hardly see anything and you can barley feel the very shallow valley in the center of the screen, which is something that at the present time cannot be made better because the only thing you are feeling/seeing is the lack of hardware behind the very thin glass screen in this area, which causes that very shallow valley in the center of the display. I'm honestly not sure how this can ever be eliminated on a foldable phone, but you never know.

 

[The Game 161]

Crease seems improved but not as good as Chinese brands

the watch and buds are copys but it’s clearly better than previous models

 

[tobybrut]

Queue the "I can't stand the crease" commenters, none of which have ever actually owned a foldable. It is fine to say you don't like something, but to say you don't like a product that you've never owned and actually experienced is ridiculous. And by the way "I saw one in Best Buy", or "my friend showed me theirs once" clearly doesn't count as ownership. I try out all sorts of smartphones and tech gadgets every year, because I like to make educated decisions. I was very hesitant when I first got my Z Fold 3 a few years ago. It was my first foldable, so I didn't know what to expect. Once I got to experience it though, it was game over for slab phones as my primary device. I sold my iPhone 12PM, gave my wife my iPad Mini, and I've never looked back.

I'm not a fan of the crease because I think it's the cause of my air bubble problem. All around the crease, my ZFold 4 developed air bubbles up and down the phone. I wasn't a fan of it before my problems but was ok with it enough to buy the phone. Now that my screen has developed air bubbles, I really don't like that crease. Naturally the bubbles appeared just a few months after the warranty expired.

 

[iMac The Knife]

I'm not a fan of the crease because I think it's the cause of my air bubble problem. All around the crease, my ZFold 4 developed air bubbles up and down the phone. I wasn't a fan of it before my problems but was ok with it enough to buy the phone. Now that my screen has developed air bubbles, I really don't like that crease. Naturally the bubbles appeared just a few months after the warranty expired.

I understand where you are coming from. You actually bought a foldable and tried it out though, which is what my OP was about.

 

[sjsharksfan12]

I was looking into buying a new watch/earbuds but the presentation yesterday left a lot to be desired. If I went with the Watch 6 or classic, would that be a mistake? I guess I can go for the Watch 7 (Don't need the ultra) and it's almost the same thing as the 6. I also currently have Airpods Pro but getting earphones for the Samsung phone might be warrented, mainly so I can use the noise cancellation and adaptive features.

 

[Cirillo Gherardo]

Uglier, more purposeless products do not exist in this space.

 

[sleeptodream]

But really that's the promise of AI I would think. AI would know your patterns and habits, where you shop, the distance to the nearest store, the time you have left before having to pick up the kids, how much money you have in your account and which coupons and sales it should look for. After all if I had a human personal assistant they would probably know much of this and just act on it. Instead we get Siri: "Would you like me to put toilet paper on your shopping list?" Yep thanks for nothing.

We’ll get there, but that’s an incredible amount of computing resources being used for mundane tasks, when you multiply it by about a billion people.

Apple AI will be the first to do this with their “personal context” stuff though. I don’t think people would let any other company track their location indefinitely, remember everywhere they go, everything they do, eat, buy, and everyone they’re connected with (willingly at least lol, I’m sure it’s in some EULA I’ve signed somewhere)

 

[ProbablyDylan]

Uglier, more purposeless products do not exist in this space.

I beg to differ.

 

[steve09090]

E.A. Bucchianeri: "Art is in the eye of the beholder, and everyone will have their own interpretation." You can plug Apple OR Samsung into your equation of "taking an idea, extending it, and making it your own," but whether it is actually artistry is up to the consumer. It gets frustrating to hear the same old supposition that Apple is the courageous one and Samsung just copies them, that's specifically what I call idiotic. In particular when Samsung has the "courage" to do crazy things like a phablet, a stylus enabled smartphone, a freakin' foldable phone, etc. No offense to Apple I think they have great products, but reducing an already hideous and functionally limiting notch by .004% isn't the pinnacle of courage for me.

They are goods points. And courage is a completely different thing to ‘great artists'. I would say Samsung are without doubt more courageous than Apple. In almost every way. Samsung has this ‘sling shyte until it sticks' in many respects. Some of it is seriously good, and some of really is… shyte. They make the best screens out there. But to blatantly copy Apple with a version that is weaker, or at least not better is very average. It is also not courageous. The Folds/Flips are courageous, and they are sticking with it, even with all their faults and ridiculous price points for the average consumer. I’m surprised they still have some traction, although not with general user.

I also agree that reducing the size of a notch isn’t mind blowing, but having it in the first place (and everyone mocking, and then copying it), making is super useful and 'owning it' was very courageous, and I love it.

 

[super chimp]

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