It wasn’t the first flip-style foldable phone, but the original Galaxy Z Flip quickly usurped the reborn Moto Razr and made Samsung the brand to beat through three generations. Now, though, rivals have started to muscle in with convincing clamshells of their own. To maintain that lead, the Z Flip5 tackles its predecessor’s two biggest pain points.
Instead of a compact external screen of limited usefulness, there’s now a giant Flex Window display that letsthe latest Snapdragon CPU and some streamlined software that takes full advantage of the form factor, and suddenly those rivals are going to have to work a lot harder to compete.
