Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5, Unlocked Android Smartphone, 256GB Storage, Phantom Black, 3 Year Extended Warranty with a Samsung Galaxy Watch5 Pro, Bluetooth, 45mm, Black (UK Version)

I recently took the plunge and purchased the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5. What can I say, I am absolutely thrilled with its performance and unique design. The foldable design adds an extra level of convenience and functionality. The impressive 7.6-inch flexible display offers a stunning viewing experience, whether it's for watching videos or multitasking with multiple apps. The fold is not noticeable at all and apps work perfectly whether the phone is open or closed. The phone is powered by a high-performing chipset, providing speedy and lag-free performance. The camera quality is outstanding, capturing photos with great detail and vibrant colours. The battery life is great, easily lasting me throughout the day, even with my heavy usage. The build quality of the Galaxy Z Fold 5 is top-notch. It feels sturdy and premium in hand, The phone is sleek and compact when folded, making it easy to carry around. The fingerprint sensor is quick and reliable. Overall, I highly recommend the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 to anyone looking for a cutting-edge and versatile smartphone. It offers a truly immersive experience, exceptional performance, and an innovative design that sets it apart from other devices on the market.

The Galaxy Z Fold 5 is an incremental but worthwhile improvement over the previous generation, reducing the handset thickness and improving the feel of the hinge, but keeping the excellent inside screen and narrow outer screen unchanged. The reduction in thickness makes it slimmer, and closes the gap of the Fold 4, making it visually more elegant, and excluding dust and fluff. The small outside screen is good for anything you'd use a normal phone for, and being a little narrower than average I think lets you maintain a better grip when it's closed.The unique feature is the enormous inside screen, and it doesn't disappoint. It's big and bright, and with a barely-noticeable fold line - ideal for watching movies, streams, browsing the web or reading books or magazines. There’s an under-screen camera for videoconferencing, hidden until used, and I can honestly say I haven't noticed it in my usage. The folding feature is utilised by Flex mode, which when the screen is half open functions like a laptop - the lower half flat on the table can show a keyboard or media controls, with the upper half folded upwards used as an email composition window or for media display. Multitasking is another big advantage of the big screen - you can split the screen so you have the equivalent of two regular phone screens, and have another as a floating window. It's a great way to keep information on-screen while composing a message or filling in a form.The Fold 5 comes with a new chipset and a big 12Gb of RAM, so more apps stay open in the background, and in my testing, there were no slowdowns or stuttering in apps or the home screen. It also has a big battery (or actually two) and this means lots of screen time - I got about seven hours of screen-on time, which means you could use it for pretty much all of a working day. In conclusion it’s a powerful, flexible, elegant device and a joy to use.

On taking out of the box I was impressed how light and sleek the phone felt. Not at all bulky. The Blue colour is beautiful, a nice shade making a change from the normal dark navy, black or white. It opens and closes nicely and securely. Switches on easily by pressing and holding the middle side button. It was so easy to set up by just following onscreen simple questions and instructions then clicking to the next screen. The screen brightness is impressive as is the depth of colour. Call volume is very good and I have had no instances of calls dropping. It has been working flawlessly for me and switches quickly between web pages and apps. Being able to use the phone from the front screen instead of opening it the whole way is so handy. The Large Fold screen has been pre-fitted with a screen protector so you just have to put one on the outside screen or get a case, which I have decided to and Im being ultra careful in the meantime whilst waiting my cases arrival. After all if you purchase a phone like this I think its worth looking after. It can be used with an S pen though one is not supplied. It did not come with a charger which is obviously necessary and does add a bit extra expense if you have to purchase one instead of using your old charger. I choose the Blue model with 512gb of storage which should be more than enough for my needs hopefully. I was considering the memory size for a while wondering if less would be fine but I do take lots of photos and the camera having a 50 mega pixel option I wanted to be sure because the bigger mega pixel photos take up more storage so hence choosing the 512 gb version. The night photography is unreal with amazing results. No separate camera will be required if you own one of these phones. It also has an ultra wide sensor and has a triple lens set up. The option to take smaller file size photos is incredibly handy for saving memory space and the photos are still really good quality. The main reasons I chose this phone was for the camera and the large screen experience. It has not disappointed. I would have preferred an s pen included but it wasn’t a dealbreaker. I am still playing around with the different features of which there are many, but I am totally thrilled with it so far. Definitely grabs attention and is a conversation piece!