What about the screen when it's folded and unfolded? is it more likely to scratch at places like the beach or from bits in your pocket?
Both the Fold 7 and the Pixel 10 Pro Fold look really good to be fair.
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Galaxy Z Fold7/Flip7
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What about the screen when it's folded and unfolded? is it more likely to scratch at places like the beach or from bits in your pocket?
Both the Fold 7 and the Pixel 10 Pro Fold look really good to be fair.
Interesting. You heavy into using the built-in speakers on phones? Never really been a thing with me... either I'm using some bluetooth headphones or (portable) speakers.
I've taken mine to the beach twice and put my torras case that protects the hinge just to be safe. Had zero damage.
I just feel like, for the price, that's the sacrifice that broke the camel's back. I also don't want to go back to the days of repositioning my hand when watching video or gaming, due to accidentally covering the only speaker.
Understandable. But even if Apple had done dual speakers... most likely have poor performance out of them due to the form factor.
This is one of the reasons i decided against the Air. I went ahead and ordered the 17PM. The brighter screen with supposed anti reflective coating, better battery life, and possibly improved cameras ultimately enticed me enough to give it a try. As I’m on the iPhone upgrade program it’s no more money out of my pocket monthly and I’ll likely sell a phone and pay the loan off a little early. Will probably roll with this and the ZF7 till the iPhone foldable comes along.
I had the Fold 4 for two years. No scratches or changes to the crease. I do always use a case. When I traded it, it looked brand new. I shouldn't have traded it for the 6. The 6 was good but I love the 7.
I have to come clean…after my earlier claim that I’m not upgrading my iPhone this year either (currently using 15 Pro Max), I decided to preorder an Air this weekend for pickup Friday.
I’m ultimately planning to move my primary number into my new Pixel 10 Pro Fold next month (primary in an Android for first time in a long time) so figured good opportunity to switch from chunky 15 Pro Max to light and thin Air as my secondary phone.
If I didn’t have the 3 lenses available on my Pixel, I probably wouldn't switch solely to an Air but feels like a nice alternative to my main foldable. I’ll try it for a couple weeks and decided whether to keep or return at that point.
The reason I ask is because at the moment there's a deal where if I trade in my S24 Ultra, I can get the Fold 7 for £1000 along with a free pair of Buds Pro 3 and a Galaxy Chromebook Go.
After 20+ years with endless MacBooks Pro, Airs, iPhones every year since 2007, iPads Pro, iPads Mini, iMacs, Homepods, TVs, iPods etc. I've switched to Samsung Galaxy Fold 7.
Since 2007 I've tested over 350 devices and wrote endless articles on iOS and Android incl. mobile gaming in magazines and blogs.
Back in 2010, my favorites were Sony Xperia X10 Mini, Samsung Galaxy S and HTC Desire with Android Froyo.
From 2010 to 2020, I got the flagships from Samsung, Motorola, Sony, Xiaomi etc. and tested the hardware as well as software a lot. Android phones made some progress and at the same time in 2020 Android felt just as same as 2010 to me - not smooth, laggy, buggy, inefficient, not logical, with micro freezers and heat during AAA games. It was not even close to be good enough to be used as main device.
Then between 2020 and 2025, something changed. The UI of both iOS and Android became more and more similar, at least for Xiaomi and Samsung. Also the AI happened and Apple completely missed it while other companies made huge steps forward. AI system integration, Gemini 2.5, Veo 3, Imagen 4, Nano Banana as well as Samsung's generative eraser are simply incredible.
When I got the Galaxy Z Fold 7, it's Android 16 with UI 8 looked as clean and beautiful as iOS used to be before 7 and especially before 26 which is an insult to every iPhone user.
The UI is super smooth, everything just works fine. It feels like good old days when iOS was working just fine. For the first time, I installed every app I had on iOS and the whole system is working great through the day incl. AAA gaming, photo and video processing etc.
I'm waiting for the next year's iPhone Fold and watching the situation for both iOS and Android.
In my opinion, Android is the OS to use currently.
If you would show me this message 15, 10 or 5 years ago, I would not believe that I said that. I always was on Apple's side and many thousands of people got Apple devices because of my influence.
It's very sad that in the last years iOS became an insult to the customers, just like Siri.
It hurts to see Apple like this.
Since 2007 I've tested over 350 devices and wrote endless articles on iOS and Android incl. mobile gaming in magazines and blogs.
Back in 2010, my favorites were Sony Xperia X10 Mini, Samsung Galaxy S and HTC Desire with Android Froyo.
From 2010 to 2020, I got the flagships from Samsung, Motorola, Sony, Xiaomi etc. and tested the hardware as well as software a lot. Android phones made some progress and at the same time in 2020 Android felt just as same as 2010 to me - not smooth, laggy, buggy, inefficient, not logical, with micro freezers and heat during AAA games. It was not even close to be good enough to be used as main device.
Then between 2020 and 2025, something changed. The UI of both iOS and Android became more and more similar, at least for Xiaomi and Samsung. Also the AI happened and Apple completely missed it while other companies made huge steps forward. AI system integration, Gemini 2.5, Veo 3, Imagen 4, Nano Banana as well as Samsung's generative eraser are simply incredible.
When I got the Galaxy Z Fold 7, it's Android 16 with UI 8 looked as clean and beautiful as iOS used to be before 7 and especially before 26 which is an insult to every iPhone user.
The UI is super smooth, everything just works fine. It feels like good old days when iOS was working just fine. For the first time, I installed every app I had on iOS and the whole system is working great through the day incl. AAA gaming, photo and video processing etc.
I'm waiting for the next year's iPhone Fold and watching the situation for both iOS and Android.
In my opinion, Android is the OS to use currently.
If you would show me this message 15, 10 or 5 years ago, I would not believe that I said that. I always was on Apple's side and many thousands of people got Apple devices because of my influence.
It's very sad that in the last years iOS became an insult to the customers, just like Siri.
It hurts to see Apple like this.
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Hell yeah. I'm with you. iOS used to be the OS that just worked and that's why I'd always switch back to Apple. But now OneUI is so much more efficient that iOS that it wouldn't make sense to go back. Returning to Apple would actually make my daily workflow more difficult.
I don't know much about AI, I don't really use it and don't plan to, but I am surprised (not please) with how Google Calendar is more 'advance' than Apple's Calendar. That being said I don't really know if I'm cool with it reading my gmail and scheduling things from Amazon orders to my private texts. A part of me thinks this is why Apple is pulling back on AI, it feels like it's just too much of an invasion of privacy.