Last week, Samsung held its Galaxy Unpacked where it showcased seven new products, including the brand new Galaxy Ring and Galaxy Watch Ultra. But the ones I’m currently testing are the Galaxy Watch 7 and the Galaxy Z Flip 6.
Before the launch, there were rumors of a lot of interesting variants of Samsung’s foldable, both with alternative price levels and in other sizes. After all, foldable mobiles should be an area for experimentation, no one can claim to have found the perfect form factor for a foldable mobile, at least not until they’ve tried.
Samsung certainly hasn’t tried. The format of the original Fold and Flip phones was certainly well thought out, but it must still have been a measure of arbitrariness that led to choosing, for example, such a long and narrow screen on the Flip and an almost square inner and long narrow outer screen on the Fold. This should have been the starting point for experimentation in different forms, or at least the first iteration of something that changed over time.
Instead, Samsung taught its foldables to be crystallized in exactly these two formats, which it has maintained since then for six generations. This year’s Z Flip 6 stands out for slightly more angular sides and a better main camera. As if everything was perfect and nothing needed to change. By the way, the new main camera is the same one in the Samsung Galaxy S24. And S23 and S22.
The outer screen of the Galaxy Z Flip 6 has actually changed, but that only enhances the impression. The screen has become large and covers the entire front, but Samsung doesn’t seem to have any new ideas for how to use the larger format, and it feels more like they put the screen in under protest and because more nimble competitors like Motorola can otherwise boast of being better .
As for the Galaxy Watch 7, I don’t have a Galaxy Watch 6 next to me, but I’ve compared pictures and tried to find differences in design without success. Of course, the Apple Watch looks pretty much the same from generation to generation too, and a consistent design language has its points. But when Samsung themselves highlight their new bracelets with clear blue and orange stitches, it actually becomes a bit comical. We are literally talking about four small dots of color on an otherwise identical plastic bracelet. Minimalism is definitely a thing when it comes to design and I’m not discounting the thought work put into this design detail, but in combination with everything I wrote before it appears as if Samsung thinks they were brave to dare to change the design so much they were sitting on a couple of stitches of sewing thread on their plastic bracelets.
There’s no getting away from the fact that the Unpacked that appeared in the leaks with several alternative foldable mobiles was more fun than the Unpacked we got. I’m also convinced that these alternative leaked mobiles were not made up, but based on real internal Samsung projects, which for one reason or another they chose not to launch, at least not now. If you want to see real news, you have to look elsewhere, for example at Xiaomi and Motorola.
Source: www.mobil.se
