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Galaxy Z Fold 6 Review: Genuinely good, especially if you ignore the competition

9to5google.com Galaxy Z Fold 6 Review: Genuinely good, especially if you ignore the competition

Samsung's new Galaxy Z Fold 6 is a perfectly fine foldable, but from the brand that started the whole category, is that still enough?

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I'm looking at the line up of foldables and wondering

do I even really need one? I kinda want one, they look cool, but is it really that much better than a normal phone?

should I even consider the Galaxy when the Honor V3 looks like it's comparable specs with better battery and a thousand dollars cheaper?

Tho the latter requires figuring it how to get and use one in the US.
- generally speaking, id imagine youre a person why often watches content on a ipad mini/small ipad, its neat to have all the screen space in your pocket. if you arent that kind of user then there really isnt a purpose for it.
  
  But only if that viewing comes while you're away from home. There is no reason to buy an expensive and fragile folding phone for video playback when you could buy almost any other phone and a secondhand tablet for less. Plus the tablet will have a bigger screen without a crease.
- I have found my Fold most useful for work stuff. I can view and edit word and excel documents with plenty of space to see everything. I can do it anywhere when I have some free moments without lugging around another device. For casual stuff like Lemmy and web surfing it's just really nice to read more with less scrolling.
- Here in Australia the Honor V2 (older version, V3 just announced) is $200 less then the just announced Z Fold 6, then there are discounts and trade in to reduce the Fold 6's RRP
  
  I don't know how much the Honor V3 will be.
I liked my fold 3 but the screen protector was a pain in the ass especially since I live in a rural area. The closest place that could install new ones was 3 hours away. I attempted it twice and they had bubbles both times. A friend just removed her protector and 3 months later she had the black line going down the center of the screen. Foldables just seem a little too fragile to me.

Also was kind of annoying because websites and apps would detect the wider screen and add a column down the side of the screen - featuring ads usually. Kind of a kick in the nuts to spend $1500 for a larger screen just to get more ads.

That said, I kind of miss being able to run split screen with apps. It was handy to keep a messaging app on the right side of the screen while I browsed the web on the other.
- I would certainly hope someone buying a $1900 phone would at least take 30 seconds to install a free DNS-based adblocker
  
  I use NextDNS and still run across this all the time on my tablet. In cases where it's an ad that got filtered it usually leaves empty margins down the sides so the content is still limited to 1/3 of the screen. Other times the area is technically not an ad... But is just click bait shit. Other times it's just random stuff.
  
  I've had some luck using Firefox. With UBlock Origin I can sometimes filter the sections out using their content zapper. With the Stylus extension I have had luck finding custom filters for some sites... But that works until that site updates their HTML a bit and then I start getting random weirdness.
  
  Don't know... It's just something I notice a lot when browsing the web on my tablet (and on the fold when I had it) and find to be a nuisance.

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