But as someone with smaller hands, not having to strain to reach across the display has been a welcome surprise. For most reviewers, I can understand the complaint. This is a significant paring down from my S20 FE, which has a width of 2.6 inches. To accommodate the hinge, Samsung had to slim down the front display to 2.1 inches in width. One area that reviewers have been more critical is the narrow 6.2-inch front display. And reading The New York Times in full width brings the experience closer to the desktop. The beautiful AMOLED display makes hand-drawn art pop. Reading comics and articles is more gratifying thanks to the larger real estate. It's missing a few features for content creators, as detailed by YouTuber LinusTechTips, and doesn't have the Shorts feature, an addictive TikTok ripoff.
The YouTube app does need an update though. Watching video content feels less squished on the Galaxy Z Fold 3, too, as the larger display makes content more enjoyable. Having a bar to the left with all my emails and a section to the right to draft makes the process far more intuitive. On my Galaxy S20 FE, bouncing around different emails felt claustrophobic and required too many inputs. That's just 0.3 inches smaller than the iPad mini 2019. Browsing and responding to emails is far more organized and clean on the large 7.6-inch internal display. Once Samsung announced the slightly more affordable Galaxy Z Fold 3 at $1,799, and by using this trick to save $850, I pre-ordered a unit.Īfter using the phone this past weekend, I don't see how I could ever go back to a non-folding phone.