It’s chunky and pricey, but it’s an incredible gadget.
This is all true of the Fold 3 . So what exactly does the Fold 4 bring to the table? As best as I can tell after a week living with the phone, not much. This isn’t a fundamentally different experience, but it is a tiny bit better. Take the cover screen — it’s only a few millimeters wider, but it’s ever so slightly nicer to use than the screen on the previous version, which felt more like a remote control.
When unfolded in tablet mode, there’s still a prominent crease on the inner screen. Depending on the viewing angle and what’s on the screen, though, it’s not very noticeable a lot of the time. It’s something I got used to easily, and even when I could see it, it didn’t bother me — not even when my thumb ran over it while gaming.Photo by Becca Farsace / The VergePhoto by Allison Johnson / The Verge
This is off by default, so you have to enable it in settings, and it works well enough, but personally, I didn’t find it as useful as the old drag-and-drop method. You can also have apps always show a button for multiscreen options — that’s a little handle at the top of an app window that normally appears once you’re in a split screen view. With the handle always visible, you can just tap it for split screen or to open the current app in a pop-up window.
The Fold 4, like its predecessor, has a 4,400mAh battery. There’s no change to wired charging speeds — still 25W — but wireless charging is a little speeder at 15W versus 11W .
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