Don’t do it, you’ll regret it. My partner has the Z Fold 3, it’s horrendous. He’s had it less than a year, it now won’t open out fully, as soon as you get ANYTHING (dust, lint, fluff etc) near the hinge, the so-called sweeping mechanism on the hinge has the opposite effect, and actually brushes dust in to the hinge. Loads of people have had this problem apparently. It’s also got a crack in the back glass. It fell out of the phone cradle in the car, it fell about an inch on to soft carpeted ground, and cracked. Not very hard wearing at all. As with all Samsungs after a time, the charging port is starting to fail, and the volume buttons are starting to play up. Of course, Samsung won’t touch any of it under warranty, and they say they need to take the whole front and back glass off to fix the hinge and the small crack in the back glass, at a cost of £500.
I had the Z Flip 3 for a little while, until I sent it back. It was nice, a really novel idea, but the battery life was shockingly terrible. I was charging it 3 times a day, and I’m not a gamer, and don’t make videos etc. Unless they’ve managed miracles with the battery in the Z Flip 4, I wouldn’t touch it.
The last Samsung phone I had was the S22 Ultra. No matter how much I flirt with the idea of going back to a Z or an S - mainly due to the aesthetics - I know I’ll regret it if I do.
