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You can add multiple accounts (Google and Skype by default) and filter which ones are visible in the contact list to avoid clutter. The app uses a split screen interface, so that you can pick a contact from the list on the left and view its details on the right. The first tab lists all contacts alphabetically with an image next to the name and an alphabet scroll to make finding a contact quicker (there's also regular search as you type). In 2020, Fold2’s main screen already had a 120Hz refresh rate, and that carries over to the Fold3.While the Sony Xperia Tablet Z doesn't have telephony, the People app is still quite useful as you can send texts or even call contacts using apps like Viber.Ĭontacts is organized into three tabs - Contacts, Favorite and Groups. The Fold3’s front display is the same size as the Fold2’s but the bump-up in refresh rate means that your eyes don’t have to adjust switching between the front screen and the main screen. 120Hz on the front display, lower priceĪnother key improvement is that the 6.2-inch front display now has a 120Hz refresh rate. I’m not sure how many apps support this though, as, for example, Netflix still only does full-screen viewing. You can pop open the phone halfway through like a laptop, and YouTube will display the video on the upper half, allowing for hands-free viewing. I also like how the Fold3 treats YouTube through its mini-laptop-like Flex mode.

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It’s simply easier to browse with such a set-up as opposed to the classic Android way of pressing the tab button to show you the tabs you have opened. The Chrome experience on the Fold3 is much closer to the desktop version, as the tabs now fully appear on the top section, allowing you to switch tabs as if you were browsing on a full-sized computer. You can still spot it, and it appears as a sort of tiny criss-crossed segment on the upper right, but it all but disappears when you’re browsing on Chrome or watching Netflix content. The under-display selfie camera helps too. It’s not 100% invisible, but more than ever, it looks more like the screen of a flat, traditional, line-free tablet. When viewing content, it’s only when you tilt the screen at an angle, to the side, that the line shows itself. I noticed the Fold2 had made this center line less visible. It didn’t render the phone unusable but you could see it there.

The first Fold, among other creasing issues, had quite the visible line. It seems to be an issue that Samsung is constantly improving on. The screen becomes more seamlessĪn early issue with the Fold phones was the crease in the middle of the phone when it is flexed open. Giving the next iteration a dust protection rating would be a good next step. While Samsung showed off improvements in their design of the sweeping mechanisms that help keep dust from entering the folding spine area, the Fold3 still doesn’t have enough protection to be given a dust-resistance rating, so you still have to be very careful if you’re at the beach and be mindful of particles that might be able to get in. I feel like it’s a key development for the Fold3 given that durability has been something that foldables are trying to prove, and giving this some measure of water resistance (depths of 1.5 meters for 30 minutes) helps advance that. I didn’t test the water resistance just to be safe from liabilities but I would assume that official store-bought units would have some sort of guarantee for users. Like the Z Flip3 5G, they used compounds that sealed the connections between the two phone “slices” and used a form of lubricant for components that can’t be sealed. But that was the big problem solved by Samsung for this year’s folding phones. How were they going to protect the insides when the folding mechanism itself provides too many openings for water to come in.

Water resistance was one of the big questions in my head when foldables started coming in.

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