So i have recently gotten the fold6 in the beautiful color white, it feels super premium and fantastic in the hand aswell as the design is really nice.
If you are a biased person, please note that here you will find some negative feedback on the folding phones so take that as a trigger warning❤️
The issues:
The first issue i have is that the two screen fell really disconnected, and in general how the UI for them works, feels and how they are integrated with each other is poor from my experience. (and other people around me who also have the fold have also reported this.) What i mean by this is that lets say i am using an app on the cover display, and i want to continue using this app on the inner display, this is the experience: i open the phone, the screen is black and then suddenly the image just pops in, no effect, no animation just an image that just pops in and makes it feel tacky cheap and just awkward. This really takes away the smoothness that Samsung has usually delivered, and it just give the feeling that Samsung did not really bother with making a OS for the fold phones. And just slapped on an OS from a regular phone without integrating it into the folds. This does not affect the devices performance just makes it feel neglected, half finished and unfortunately low budget/quality, which is a shame.
The second issue is with the way that the apps go from the inner display to the cover display. Currently we have a setting to make on app go both ways, but the issue is that it either always does this, or it never does and no in between. I am aware that making software is challenging, but some companies like Oneplus found a way. So i think if you could swipe or use a gesture or even press a button on for example on the taskbar to move the app from the cover to inner and the other way around. This would go really go well if Samsung took my first idea into account.
The third issue is minor, but i wanted to make people aware that lets say that if you are in a call and have loud speaker on, there is a little lag spike in the sound when going from one display to the other.
The fourth issue is the inner display camera especially on the fold6. Now on earlier models i can understand because they were in early development and so on, but the fold6 have a 4mp under display camera that has quality so poor that it is barely usable not even to mention that is is completely unusable in slightly dimmer lighting... And this is just unacceptable for such a expensive device and also the under display camera was added in the fold3 i believe, there is just not a real excuse at this point.
Extras: this is going to be a little mix or smaller details that i felt should be acknowledged. The issue is that before i could access specific dot-files/hidden files on my phone and now can't.. I had downloaded some apps that required me to do tweaking in the code for modding, but now it says: " Can't use this folder to protect your privacy choose another folder.". Another issue is my folds ability to shoot photos in darker places and the image optical stabilization. It makes the video look dark, gloomy, grainy and overall bad. The image quality and the color accuracy gets ruined to the point where i don't really use it anymore. The last issue it that the fold6 has only 25w charging which is embarrassing for a phone at that price point.
My opinion: in my opinion it starts to feel like Samsung just does not care. This is especially the case with Samsung releasing fold6 W25 edition in some countries (Asia) that managed to fix all the big issues like the cover-display size, giving it a actually good camera system comparable to the ultra, the crease smaller, MAKING IT SLIMMER, and improved charging only a few weeks after releasing the fold6 to the rest of the world... It makes me feel like Samsung is purposefully not releasing new feature to *store up* thing to add to a later device to make it feel impressive in stead of adding it to a current one. So basically it feels like they did not really make any significant changes to the fold6 to be able to push the 7th one out more...
Summary: to sum it up this all is just my personal experience and opinion. Feel free to agree or disagree with this post and its always nice to hear others peoples perspective. So don't be scared to say something as all replies a appreciated, i love this fantastic community and it's fun to sit here and read. I am really surprised if someone made it this far, but if you did then write what phone you have in caps. Galaxy Z Fold6Galaxy Z Fold5Galaxy Z Fold4Galaxy Z Fold3 5G
@BandOfBrothers I agree and i really love the fold, it has been on the the devices i have fallen in love with the quickest. I just wanted to share my raw unfiltered opinion on the phone as i think many people a biased and lie. So i wanted to let Samsung and other people to know what to look out for. And yes, i agree that the "folding world" is not for everyone, but i think that people will eventually get around to it. Thanks for the response. Btw if you can can somehow boost my post or repost it like on TikTok that would be nice. (I am new to this so i don't know how this works) But do you know how i can make sure that Samsung sees my post because it means a lot to me. And i was just recommended by a person in the Samsung technical department.
We encourage all constructive posts on this forum, and the Samsung Community Forum Team who monitor these posts do I'm sure provide feedback up the chain.
On the forum here we have a ' like ' option that shows to others who perform a forum search, and kr cone across your thread that the post has been read and those people appreciate the content.
There isn't a ' repost ' option.
Also Community Forum Posts do appear via Google Searches for people actively searching for content.
A person can send feedback directly to Samsung via the Samsung Members App.
There is also a dedicated thread here on the forum that might be of interest to you to also post your feedback in.
No I'm sure the Team here will have picked up on your thoughts already.
However if you have any further suggestions specific to the content matter that the thread is created for "If you have any suggestions for features or apps, then please share them with us here. " then please feel free to post in that thread @kasinss👌
