More screen, more battery but something’s missing

The SAMSUNG is a tripartite Samsung update from devices this year. While Z Fold 7 comes with a top -class processor and cameras, Z Flip 7 carries many technical details of its predecessor. In fact, the most important upgrade this year is a more expandable front screen, or a flexible window, as the company prefers to call it.

Samsung has also added a larger battery to foldable folding, which is technically impressive. However, the company has provided the minimum software additions and modest improvements in places. The promotions are good, but is there enough of them?

Devices

Samsung caught up to one of its few foldable competitors by increasing the front screen significantly from 3.4 inches to 4.1 inches. Camera cuts are the only things that cross this bright and vibrant screen.

Despite the larger screens (and battery), Flip 7 is also a thinner than last year. It is 6.4 mm (0.25 inches), down from 6.9 mm (0.27 inches). This equals the Galaxy S25 Edge, where the main sale point is towards it. I shouldn’t say this, but this fish doubles when it folds: Samsung says it is 13.7 mm (0.54 inches) when closed. However, you measure it, this is the thinnest face yet.

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Z Flip 7 has a decent battery life, larger screens and more artificial intelligence intelligence. However, the cameras are dated and Samsung does not provide enough benefit on the second foldable screen.

Positives

• A larger front screen
• Better battery life
• Defusted design

cons

• Camera historian
• The front screen tool is still limited
• Slow shipping speed

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The flexible window now has a 120 Hz update, and it can reach the levels of peak brightness of 2600 February (S25 Ultra) and feature the framework of the frame so far (1.25 mm) of any Samsung smartphone. Increased brightness is a decisive upgrade on a screen mainly used to look at your device from all over an office or outside in sunlight. Samsung said it was able to expand the screen range to the edges through the water -resistant coating app on the ingredients below the AMOLED screen. This means that there is a lesser extent around the screen circumference.

Samsung also expanded the home folding home screen to 6.9 inches – a noticeable step up of 6.4 inches former style. The company has also turned wisely closer to the most exemplary smartphone view rate than 21: 9. Although it is not completely similar, for example, Galaxy S25 or iPhone 16, the video content is now better.

The previous Z has more extended screens, making it difficult to reach the upper corners when using one hand. Although Z Flip 7 has a better -to -height ratio, it is also larger, which unfortunately means that she has the same problem. If Samsung changes the width ratio to the height while maintaining the size of the screen, this may have hit a comfortable sweet spot.

Not for the first time, Samsung says it enhances a joint joint mechanism. Although I can’t witness along her life, Flip 7 closes with “Thunk” more than his predecessors.

I like it requires more strength to open it because it makes the entire device feel more hard. If you are hoping that this is the year when the width is climbed, I am afraid that this does not happen. For those who have never possessed folding, FLIP 7 wrinkles are largely not noticeable.

Cameras

This year’s FLIP cameras story? More than the same. FLIP 7 has the same basic setting with a 50 -megapixel f/1.8 with optical image installation (OIS) and a 12 -megapixel lens around the world with a 123 -degree width field. There is a 10 -megapixel camera in the interior as well, but with the improved front screen in FLIP, you should use the primary duo of the camera.

The best pictures come from well lit scenes. Samsung Night Mode mode is a bit aggressive, but it is still great for night shots, even if it leaves an excessive look at treatment on skin tones and faces. The default assumptions 7 to 12.5 MP backward, but you can switch to the 50-megapixel shots if you want all the details-you have a fixed hand. There is no dedicated phone camera, which means that the zoom is limited to the 2X crop, which hinders the ingenuity of the Z Flip 7. Again: If you want to fold with the best cameras, you will have to go with a series of times.

Regarding video capture, FLIP 7 can record video in HDR 10 -bit, higher than 8 bits, for more color accuracy and details. You can still keep the Z Flip 7 as the reactionary video camera, which remains more fun.

programming

Despite the larger screen, Samsung has already developed Flex Window this year. There are some improvements. When using the front screen to take personal photos and videos, interface icons and mode buttons will float around the screen to get out of what you discover that you are trying to take pictures of it. If you are looking to use a special filter on your footage, Z Flip 7 can view a live preview for each filter before applying them.

There are other program additions to the Flip series, The Now Bar and are now brief, presented in this S25 series. Bar now is Samsung on the dynamic iPhone, where it offers continuous or time -sensitive information not completely notice, but there is something you may want to know. This includes fitness, weather, or live updates of ride sharing applications such as Uber.

You can take advantage of the tape now without opening the phone, and you will not have to detect it if you are looking for an interaction with Gueini Live from Google as well. It is another Android feature that looks perfectly suitable for folding, where you can talk to Gemini with the minimum material interaction on the Z Flip 7.

To use most other applications, you still need to install a Multistar launcher (which is to make By Samsung) to display and use basic programs such as Gmail and Chrome. This is the alternative solution at the present time, as Samsung has not expanded the approved menu from the six applications allowed to run on the Z Flip 7 Flex window – a short list that puzzles Netflix confusing.

Battery life and performance

Although it is less than last year, FLIP 7 has a battery of 4300 mAh, 300 mAh, of the hour of its predecessor. This, along with a new processor (3nm Exynos 2500) led to a jump of life.

In our standard battery tests, FLIP 7 played a continuous video for 18 and a half hours. This is a 13 -hour -old jump that I got from FLIP 6. I was very surprised that I had the test twice to confirm and got similar results.

The new chip has never felt particularly slow, whether you are playing games, using Galaxy AI, or completing other tax activities. However, the phone will become warm, in my hands and pocket, while testing the camera and tasks based on the site, such as using Google and Citymapper maps.

In daily use, with heavy tests, I will order a day and a half before I have to think about recharge. Unfortunately, the wire charging speeds in the Galaxy Z Flip 7 still tops 25 w It is the same as Z FLIP 6 (and the S25), but when other phones use 45 watts (or higher), they are somewhat scary, especially on a distinct device like this.

conclusion

By updating the design and increasing the slimming in the Zalib Z, Samsung has made the smallest folding in dealing with it. Meanwhile, geometric miracle was accomplished by pressing larger screens and more fundamental battery. However, some aspects of Flip 7 are not present, the most prominent of which are cameras, which have not changed since last year.

Samsung also needs to put more work in its flexible window. Although the ability to use most applications on the smaller front screen is present here, it still serves as an enlarged and most of them is not designed for the smaller screen. There is an indispensable potential here and Z Flip 7 does not pay a category folding forward.