It’s the 3rd generation foldable phone but this is going to be my first impression after opening the box & let’s see what all the Z Fold 3 offers
You get the phone, right upfront
& it’s open in tablet form. You get a Type C to Type C cable, a sim card
tool & some documentation.
This is beautiful & now it
really feels like foldable phones have matured! The Z Fold 3 has matured.
It’s refined, the folding
mechanism truly feels refined! In-Hand Feel - It’s slightly on the heavier side
as it’s a tablet & a phone that’s equivalent to 2 phones. But still, it
doesn’t feel that big in the hands. You can carry it around. Its form factor is
narrow & fits very well in the hand.
It is about 14.4mm thick &
which makes it on the thicker side but when you open it, it’s hardly 6.4mm(one
of the thinnest).
There are a lot of moving parts
in a foldable phone, but the fit & finish looks very refined! The back is
flat with the Samsung logo at the centre that used to be on the left. And it’s
a piano black finish. I’m pleasantly surprised with its in-hand feel. So well
done Samsung on the fit & finish!
Build Quality - The frame is
obviously metal. In fact, Samsung says, it’s an armour aluminium frame,
which is one of the toughest on a
smartphone. And you get Gorilla Glass both above and below, which is the
toughest glass.
Ports & Buttons - It’s going
to be different. Above, on the left, you get a speaker grill & a microphone.
You get 2 microphones. So, a total of 3 microphones. They are noise-cancelling
ones for video shooting. On the right-hand side, you get a volume rocker, a
power on/off button that doubles up as a fingerprint sensor. On the left-hand
side, you get a sim card tray. And below you get a USB Type C & a
microphone on the right. There’s a speaker grill on the left I’m telling you based
on its open form. So, lots of ports, buttons & microphones.
The sim card tray will have a
dual nano card slot. The cover display is a 6.2” AMOLED display with a 120Hz
fast refresh rate. And the inner display is a 7.6” AMOLED E4 display with a 120Hz
fast refresh rate. The outer display is a dynamic AMOLED 2x display that gives
a peak brightness of 1500 Nits.
The outer display is going to be
used more. And being a 6.2” big display you’d do 70-80% of the things on it and
you should not have any problems in direct sunlight. The inner display has 1200
Nits of peak brightness.
Specifications - It’s based on
the Qualcomm SD 888 SoC, & there are 2 variants - 12+256GB & 12+512GB.We
have the 12+256GB variant. The RAM type is LPDDR5 & the storage type is UFS 3.1. It
has a 4400mAh battery & Samsung claims that the display is 25% more power-efficient & consumes less battery. It has a big 6.2” screen & for that, the 4400mAh battery might not run for the whole day.
Under normal usage, it might hold
throughout the day. I'll test it out obviously, but it should have been more. There’s
no adapter in the box but the phone supports 25W charging. And it also supports
10W wireless charging. And there’s reverse wireless charging as well.
Performance - We ran the AnTuTu
Benchmark & got a score above 7.22L.The gaming performance & playing on
the big screen is fun! It’s a good display & you can play any game.
Like BGMI or COD & you’ll
have a lot of fun. You can play them on the highest settings. In fact, we
played BGMI on the 6.2” screen & it works quite well. The screen is a
little narrow because of the aspect ratio. But we couldn’t play COD on it
because of the ratio. But you can play BGMI on the outer screen. The ratio of
the outer screen is 24.5:9, which generally is 18:9 or 20:9. And that’s why it’s
narrow with a long screen.
Cameras - There are 5 cameras in
total. And all 5 cameras can be used as selfie cameras. On the rear, you get a
12MP(primary)+12MP(telephoto)+12MP(ultrawide) triple camera setup. On the
front(cover display), you get a 10MP punch-hole selfie sensor. The main screen
under-display camera is a 4MP sensor. And I like the fact that Samsung tried
using the 4MP under-display camera. Its quality is ok, it takes a lot of post-processing. And the photos are hazy. But it gets clear during post-processing.
You already have a front 10MP
& 12MP on the back, which you can use as a selfie. Let me tell you.
So there’s 4MP, I can use this
because of the front screen. And you can use the rear camera setup as a selfie too!
This is having the ultrawide sensor.
You might use the under-display
camera during Zoom meetings/video calls. Or else, you’ll use the main camera
setup. So that’s nice. One good thing is they aren’t after MPs. The
12MP+12MP+12MP clicks good photos. We clicked some photos & videos with it
& the clarity, colour & contrast etc is quite impressive!
I’m watching it on the screen so
maybe it’s looking good but overall, I was mighty impressed with the photo
& video quality. But do wait for the full review. It comes with flex mode,
where you can click photos with the under-display camera. There’s another good
thing, you can hold it in one hand even after opening it.
It is not too wide & even the
average hands won’t have problems. Small hands might have some difficulties.
But, for normal/average hands look at this! You can easily close & hold it
as well.
There are 2-3 things that stand
out! 1 - It’s IPX8 certified, which is a big thing. It’s not dust, but water-resistant & nothing will happen even if it falls in the water. It’s good
for a foldable phone to achieve an IP rating! So that’s impressive.
2 - It has an S Pen support. You
get 2 different S Pens, which you can buy as accessories. S Pen Fold Edition
& S Pen Pro which you’ll have to buy separately. And for that big screen,
the S Pen looks very nice.
Multimedia - There are AMOLED
screens, the outer is an HD+ screen while the inner is a 2K screen. So, when
consuming multimedia, use the big screen, it’ll be a lot of fun! You get stereo
speakers(top & bottom-firing). And you can enjoy them in any orientation
without covering them. The speakers positioning is on the side, & because
of that even if you hold it horizontally, the speakers come above on both
sides. And holding it vertically will make the speakers come out on top & bottom.
So multimedia experience on this one is unmatched with that big screen.
The audio quality is loud & very good! You get Wide vine L1 support, so streaming on Netflix will be fun! You also get Camera2Api support. There’s no notification light, no FM Radio & SAR values are within limits.
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