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A few days ago, Samsung just held a global new product launch and launched a bunch of new products, including two major folding screen phones, the small folding Samsung Galaxy Z Flip5 and the large folding Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5, both of which have been on pre-sale. Samsung's folding screen phones have been priced at a high price, especially the large folding Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5 starting at 12999 yuan.

As the flagship of the latest generation of Samsung folding screen, can Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5 bring a better user experience? CTOnews.com received this product in advance, and then I'll talk to you about its experience.

Appearance design

As we all know, Samsung is a brand that pays attention to design heritage, so this time Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5 inherits the overall appearance and style of the previous generation Fold4, but it has been adjusted in many details, so when you touch the real machine, you will feel that it has changed, but not completely.

On the most obvious weight perceived by hands, Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5 successfully lost 10g of weight and 253g of bare metal net weight. In terms of thickness, it is 13.4mm in the case of folding and 6.1mm in the case of expansion. In fact, when the hand is folded, the grip feels thinner and firmer.

The main reason for the thinning of the fuselage is that Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5 uses water drop super-closed Seiko hinges. This also brings three benefits: first of all, after the water drop hinge eliminates the folding gap, it is more conducive to the strength and structural stability of the fuselage, and the hinge life will be longer; the second advantage is that there is no gap means less ash on the inner screen, which I believe friends who have used similar equipment with folding gaps must be deeply touched; the third point is naturally better, and it still supports the waterproof ability of IPX8, with a high level of protection.

The upgraded droplet hinge also brings a tighter sense of folding damping and a smoother mechanical curve. The lid used to be closed with a big "bang", but now it has become a softer "click" with a higher texture. The only small slot point is that the middle frame uses a smooth bright polished metal, which is very smooth to the touch, and it will be troublesome to open the screen if the sweaty hand is serious.

Turning to the outside of the hinge, the previous generation of negative engraved SAMSUNG Logo changed to the style of laser screen printing.

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5's body lines are still stiff with a little roundness, and the rear shell camera module moves the previous generation of supplementary lights to the right of the lens group to be placed separately, making it more visually harmonious. The Fold5 camera has more bulges than the previous generation, which means that to counteract the protruding feeling of the lens module, the phone case must also be thicker.

For rear lenses, the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5 is equipped with a 5000 megapixel wide-angle camera lens, a 1000-megapixel telephoto lens and a 1200-megapixel ultra-wide-angle lens, which supports 3x optical zoom and 30x spatial zoom. The lenses on the other two screens are 1000 megapixels (outer screen) and 4 megapixels (under the inner screen).

In other respects, Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5 is almost no different from the previous generation, it is still a very clean foggy glass rear shell + a full-size outer screen covered with a whole piece of glass, a side fingerprint identification integrated on the power key, a symmetrical double speaker opening, and still supports wireless charging.

Screen experience

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5 is equipped with a 6.2in second-generation dynamic AMOLED outer screen with a 2316x904 resolution of 23.1 AMOLED 9 and a 48-120Hz adaptive high brush, which is slightly flatter than the mainstream 20:9 screen.

CTOnews.com has been tested by the Aiseli colorimeter, and the color gamut coverage of this outer screen is excellent, with 100% of sRGB and DCI-P3 gamut coverage and 89.8% of the RGB gamut.

In addition, its manual maximum brightness is 711N, the maximum brightness of high brightness mode is 1000 Nitts, and the peak brightness of HDR is 1750 Nits. it can be said that this is the strongest folding screen I have ever seen.

Considering the touch experience and hinge structure, the physical frame of the outer screen is not as stunning as Samsung's own Galaxy S series straight board, with the same width on the top, bottom and right, and a part on the outside of the left frame that connects with the hinge structure, so it is wider and the camera is in the middle. There is no limit to the content displayed on the outer screen, and the experience of watching video and chatting on Wechat with Fold5 is no different from that of a direct screen machine, but it may be due to the engineering machine, the game adaptation is general, and when playing games due to adaptation problems, some black edges may be left around, in the hope that the retail version can be improved.

As for the inner screen, Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5 uses a 7.6inch, upgraded second-generation dynamic AMOLED screen with a 2176x1812 resolution of 21.6 2176x1812 18, which is close to square and supports 1-120Hz adaptive refresh. In terms of creases, it is much lighter than Fold4.

In the testing process of the Aiseli colorimeter, the inner screen of Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5 once again gave a performance of nearly full marks, covering more than 95% of the three gamut modes.

The manual maximum brightness of the screen is 701nit, the maximum brightness of high brightness mode is 1200 nits, and the peak brightness of HDR is 1750 nits. See this you should also find that in Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5, the quality and performance of the two screens are the first echelon, the parameters are very close, the actual experience of the two screens also achieve the same color temperature and brightness, switching between each other will not be aware of any change, I have to say that the strength of Samsung in the screen field is very difficult to shake.

Of course, the camera on the inner screen complained about in the previous generation is still very conspicuous, with only 4 million pixels after all, so it is difficult to avoid the "screen window" effect, which can be seen on all background pages, but the sense of existence is much lower than that of black cameras. although it does not affect the use, but the perception is acceptable or not.

In terms of high-brush adaptation of applications, there is only 60Hz App like Douyin. Other apps basically don't lock frames, and even map App like Gaud runs all 120 frames. Video platforms such as bilibili adopt the dynamic refresh rate strategy of 60Hz when not browsing the page, and restore the dynamic refresh rate of 120Hz once the information flow starts, so the daily use is very smooth, and there is no split feeling of changing cards in an instant.

In terms of external screen experience, Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5 fits well, and the App interface is basically proportionally scaled, without the sense of forced stretching. In some common day-to-day App, the interface looks harmonious, there is no discomfort, and the font does not appear very small. And because of the slim size of the fuselage, the small horizontal bar gesture at the bottom is also very comfortable to use.

System experience

Samsung's One UI has always been a special presence in Android, the localization experience is not as rich and comprehensive as domestic systems, UI and interaction still retain a lot of native Android, but when it comes to customization, One UI can be regarded as a "deep" magic change. Limited by space, I will only talk about some details or special functions that I think have been done well.

When setting up your phone for the first time, One UI allows you to specify the App that needs to be pre-installed, including official App and third-party App, which is much better than deleting unwanted pre-installed App experience after entering the system.

One UI App icon style is also unified, tired of seeing the stereotyped rounded rectangle icon, this round fat, and even a kind of early Nokia MeeGo perception style is really very comfortable, adapt to a large number of mainstream App, many people like to use the same One UI icon even if they don't use Samsung phones.

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5 interactive animation is very smooth, each animation has a complete logic, which is very obvious when operating the phone. Unfortunately, the widget One UI is still made into the mainstream rounded rectangle, mixed with their own icon, although not awkward, but less unified.

One UI takes advantage of the characteristics of the folding screen, and Fold5 also introduces a very interesting stereoscopic interaction mode, which is equivalent to what we often call a folding screen hovering. Samsung provides a three-dimensional interactive mode switch for almost all apps, and when it is turned on, as long as the phone is folded to a 90-degree angle, the app will automatically display the main content on the work screen, while the lower half of the screen is used to touch the interaction and place function menus. For example, an online video App can be opened through the upgraded vertical interactive touchpad below, and the shortcut button on the left can quickly capture screenshots, adjust volume, brightness, open new lower screen applications, and so on.

When the hover interface starts, there is a natural zoom animation, and the UI in the touch area of the lower half of the screen is also newly designed and optimized according to different types of App. Take the most common camera as an example. in hover mode, the top half of the screen displays a viewfinder, the left side of the lower half of the screen shows a preview of the photos that have been taken, and on the right there are various function buttons, which suddenly looks like a professional workbench. Recording video in hover mode provides an ease of use bonus for scenarios such as VLOG and LVB.

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5 itself is very general but not sophisticated enough for the large screen adaptation of the App, because although it fits in size, the proportion of visual elements is sometimes wrong. For example, when you open CTOnews.com, the proportion of the header image on the home page is too large, and the title of the article is left blank. When you open bilibili, the proportion of the size of the video cover preview image and the text size of the video title is not equal. In addition, some App can only be displayed horizontally, which can only fill the screen, but the parallel horizon solution may be more effective.

Of course, Samsung also offers a compromise solution. Have you noticed that there is a small bar at the top of the App in the screenshot above? Click on the small bar, the system will automatically split the App to the left side, then the left and right screen is just split in two, you can display two complete App, as long as you select one in the list of applications on the right, you can use it at the same time, and the small bar supports turning the application into a small window state at any time, moving the position freely, which is also a very easy to use in the current small window solution.

In addition to the small horizontal bar at the top of App that can trigger split screen and small window operation, dragging the icon on the resident Dock bar at the bottom of the desktop to the top can also achieve fast screen split, and a maximum of 3 App can be split at the same time, which is very useful in some special scenarios. The layout after the split screen will not be disassembled even if it is retreated to the background, and will still be retained when entering again.

In addition, in the state of full-screen App, you can also enter the free window by gesturing down from the top edge of the screen, and the sliding distance determines the size of the window, which can be adjusted at any time. After entering the window, a small bar automatically appears on the top of the App to facilitate more operation.

Performance performance

Configuration, Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5 is, after all, Samsung's top flagship product, the heap is still very ruthless, the processor is equipped with the latest second-generation Snapdragon 8 for Galaxy super version processor, standard 12GB LPDDR5X memory, storage space available 512GB and 1TB. In addition, it also has built-in 4400mAh battery, 25W fast charging + 15W wireless charging, AKG dual speakers, NFC, USB3.0 and Bluetooth 5.2and so on. Apart from the slightly inferior battery capacity and charging power, there is nothing wrong with other aspects.

Looking at the running score first, Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5 has a comprehensive score of 1521909 in the running score of an Rabbit, which is above-average performance in the second-generation Snapdragon 8 processor model.

In the flash performance test, Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5 has a continuous read speed to 3420.5MB/s and a write speed to 2954.36MB/s, which belongs to the level of UFS4.0.

In the GeekBench6 test, Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5 scored a single core score of 2013 and a multi-core score of 5364, with a bright single-core score and a regular multi-core performance.

The actual game performance, we all know that Samsung for the game performance adjustment has been relatively conservative, but we still found "original God" and "collapse: star Dome Railway" these two popular games are tested. It is worth noting that Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5 inside the screen of the game full screen adaptation is relatively in place, mainstream games can be in full screen or nearly full screen case, to play with a high resolution, I took a "avalanche: star Dome Railway" game screenshot, you can refer to.

The test conditions are 25 degrees room temperature, 50% screen brightness, connected to the Wi-Fi network, set the highest picture quality in the game + 60 frames, and turn off dynamic blur.

During the 20-minute game, Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5 does not understand much. Most of the time, the number of frames fluctuates around 40 frames, which is much more stable than Fold4. The final average frame rate is 51.9 frames, and the average power consumption is 5.3W. Due to conservative scheduling, the surface temperature of the fuselage is not very high, with a peak temperature of only 42 degrees.

The test method of "collapse: star Dome Railway" is to brush through a game to simulate the universe. in about 30 minutes, the overall frame rate fluctuation of Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5 is better than that of the original god, but from the 12th minute, the frame rate fluctuation begins to increase, and the final average frame rate is 54.8 frames, the average power consumption is 5.5W, and the highest surface temperature of the fuselage is 41.3 degrees.

Based on the above test results, considering the properties of the folding screen, the performance of this game is still good, and the original player on the inner screen uses the characteristics of higher resolution and full-screen display, and its rendering pressure is higher than that of mobile phones with regular screens. such a game frame rate is not easy.

If you are not very sensitive to the number of frames, or like to play competitive mobile games, but prefer big screen and high-definition pictures, then the gaming experience of three-star Galaxy Z Fold5 is not bad, for example, I downloaded some classic mobile games, such as "Brave Huck", "warm Snow", "ambition to fall into Battle", "wonderful World", etc., you can get an unprecedented excellent experience on the 7.6inch giant screen of Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5.

High resolution, high refresh rate and the feeling of filling the big screen all make people more willing to use this inner screen to play games that require less performance or are more relaxed and casual. In fact, I do not recommend that you use its outer screen to play games, although it is smaller to hold, but because the screen ratio is not the standard 21:9 or 16:9, mainstream games all have black edges. Folding shape is also difficult to say whether it will affect its cooling effect, if only occasionally do the daily task of online games, that is no problem.

Summary

The top screen quality and solid adjustment in terms of color consistency inside and outside the screen highlight Samsung's deep accumulation in the display panel field; the new ONE UI runs stably, has a high degree of customizability, interacts comfortably, and the animation is smooth and silky; the second generation Snapdragon 8 for Galaxy super version processor with 12GB LPDDR5X memory, there is no need to question the game performance. It is not too much to use the term "top folding flagship" to describe Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5. If you want to buy a folding screen phone, Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5 is definitely worth considering.

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