Samsung Galaxy Z Flip3
Price: £949 from fave.co/3040j5x
Let’s get this out of the way: the Galaxy Z Flip3 is not a perfect phone (because there’s no such thing). But it’s a phone that absolutely nails what it sets out to: provide a premium-feeling folding phone that looks fantastic, feels great to use, and doesn’t cost the Earth.
The perfect version of this phone would probably have slightly better cameras – but then it would cost a few hundred more. Or maybe it would have longer battery life – but in that case it wouldn’t be half so compact.
Samsung made the right compromises, and the result is not only a foldable that can stand toe-to-toe with its slab phone rivals, but is comfortably the most exciting phone this year.
DESIGN
Last year’s Galaxy Z Flip and Z Flip 5G looked pretty fantastic, so it was a slight surprise that Samsung went back to the drawing board for the series’ third phone. Luckily my scepticism was unwarranted, as the company found space for several key improvements.
The broad shape and size of the phone hasn’t changed much, but the aesthetics have. Gone are the mirrored, metallic finishes of the first gen, replace by more muted two-tone designs. I’ve been testing the phone in cream, but you can also grab it in black, purple, or dark green – with a few more online-only colours with a
