Another flagship foldable just dropped, and the reviews are in.
The hinge is "refined." The crease is "less noticeable than ever." The price is still roughly one used Honda Civic, which apparently everyone has collectively agreed to stop mentioning.
I've been daily-driving foldables on and off since the first ones face-planted onto the market, and I want to be honest with you: they're the most impressive tech you'll use twice a day and resent every other time.
Let's start with the hardware, because that's genuinely where the magic lives.
Unfold one of these things in a coffee shop and watch strangers physically turn their necks.
The screen is gorgeous, the multitasking is real, and there's something undeniably cool about a tablet that lives in your pocket.
That inner display is softer than your feelings after a bad breakup.
A fingernail, a grain of sand, a determined toddler—any of them can leave a permanent souvenir.
Every reviewer says "you'll get used to babying it," which is a fun way of saying you paid premium money for a device you're scared to touch.
The crease is the other star of the show.
Every generation promises it's "basically gone," and every generation I can still find it with my thumb in the dark like a raccoon checking for snacks.
Folding a tablet and a phone into one body means cramming two displays and a chunky hinge into a space that should've gone to a battery.
You'll get through a day if you're disciplined and don't, you know, use the big screen you paid for.
Let's talk about that price, since nobody else wants to.
You're looking at flagship-plus money, and then you're looking at repair costs that make phone insurance adjusters laugh nervously.
Drop a normal phone and you replace a screen.
Drop a foldable and you might as well start a GoFundMe.
If you're a tech enthusiast who likes being the coolest person at brunch, sure, go wild.
If you genuinely live in your phone and want that inner screen for reading, spreadsheets, or games, there's a real argument here—the experience is legitimately great when it works.
If you're a normal person who wants a phone that survives a purse, a pocket, and a toddler, you're paying extra for fragility and calling it innovation.
The regular slab phone in your hand is boring the way a Toyota Camry is boring: it just keeps working.
Here's the thing the industry won't say out loud.
Foldables are improving fast, and in a few years they might be the default.
But right now you're an early adopter paying a beta-tester tax, and that's fine as long as you know it.
My take: buy one because you want one, not because a review told you it's "the future." The future is expensive, delicate, and currently has a crease down the middle.
Final Thoughts
The rest of us can wait for the version that survives being dropped in a parking lot.