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Samsung Galaxy Z Flip3 review: The first foldable worth buying
...if you can accept the middling battery life
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The Z Flip3 is tantalizingly close to being everything I hoped it would be. Starting now, folding phones aren't just for early adopters. You can go out and order one right now, and you probably won't be unhappy with it — or pay through the nose for it. I still have some complaints when it comes to things like middling-to-poor battery life, and part of me wishes Samsung would just take a stance to either cut more corners or fewer, but we're basically "here." The Z Flip3 is liminal, and in five years, we'll look back on it as marking the beginning of the true folding phone era.
Samsung's new Unpacked teaser hints at colorful foldable news
A potential comeback for Moto Maker-like customization
Remember Moto Maker? Motorola used to make it easy to personalize your Moto X or Moto G with whatever colors you liked the most, but it quietly discontinued the program several years ago. The Galaxy Z Fold3 and Z Flip3 are the newest foldable devices from Samsung, complete with top-notch specs and, at least in the case of the Z Flip3, a more affordable price. With another event on the horizon, the company might be ready to pick up the mantle from Motorola, with the introduction of customizable colors for both of its folding phones.
Trading in for a Z Fold3 or Z Flip3? What you need to know — and how to get the most for your phones
Samsung's trades system is weird. Knowing how to use it could save you hundreds.
Samsung's newest folding phones may not be quite as expensive as prior generations, but they're still very spendy, with the Z Flip3 starting at ,000 and the Z Fold3 at ,800. The company's been known to offer remarkably fair trade values in recent years, though, and for these phones in particular, you can send Samsung a staggering four trade-in devices, potentially driving the cost way down. But things can get a little complicated. Here, we get into the nitty-gritty of what every phone is worth to Samsung, and how to get the best value for your trades.
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Fixing the screen on your Galaxy Z Fold3 or Z Flip3 will be incredibly expensive (unsurprisingly)
You better handle that thing with kid gloves, or maybe actual gloves
Folding smartphone displays are very difficult to produce — take a look at this teardown to see how complex these devices are — so it's understandable that the technology adds a premium to the price of Samsung's latest Galaxy phones. With that in mind, it's genuinely remarkable that the Z Flip3 costs less than $1,000. You will not want to break your screen, though, as that will be much more costly to repair than on a regular old slab phone.
Samsung did Pixel owners dirty on trade-in values for the Z Fold3 and Flip3
$100 for a Pixel 4 XL, and the company won't even take anything more recent than that
It's Samsung pre-order day for the new folding phones, and this time around, Samsung isn't subsidizing anyone with crazy trade-in values. In fact, outside being able to dump a whole pile of older devices that Samsung is graciously offering a minimum for, they're pretty middle-of-the-road-to-bad — but you can stack up to four trade-ins. That's more than the two we expected previously.
Samsung will unveil the Galaxy Z Fold3 and Flip3 in 30 minutes — watch it here
*insert frantically excited gif*
We've been hearing about them for months, we've been anticipating their release just as long, and now the day is upon us. Samsung is half an hour away from unwrapping unfolding its newest flagships, the Z Flip3 and Z Fold3, and we've got the details for you to catch the event live.The August 2021 edition of Unpacked is taking place today, August 11 2021, at these times:
Samsung seems to have just given up on keeping its new folding phones secret at this point
Well the leaks start coming and they don't stop coming
With less than 48 hours to go until Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked event, you'd be forgiven for thinking we're all out of potential leaks flaunting the company's upcoming folding phones. Of course, you'd also be wrong. Following up on its own internal video tease a few weeks ago, Samsung accidentally published an ad on YouTube showing off both the Galaxy Z Flip3 and Z Fold3, in case you need further evidence of what's on the way later this week.