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🌤️ Good time all, and invited to the Daily Authority. I anticipation you’re having a fantastic October frankincense far. We’ve surely been kept plentifulness engaged acknowledgment to Google and Apple. But today, we’re changing pace.
The Galaxy Z Flip 4’s biggest issue?
Ryan Haines / Android Authority
- The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 4 received precocious praise in our review for its subtle but meaningful improvements successful astir each department.
- We besides loved its compact plan erstwhile folded, which extends to a much usable 6.7-inch surface erstwhile opened.
- But successful this nifty plan instrumentality besides lies the phone’s biggest annoyance.
- As AA‘s Hadlee Simons explains, it’s hard to usage the telephone with 1 hand, making it a beauteous impractical phone.
- “This is peculiarly irksome erstwhile I’m astatine the market store with a handbasket and privation to cheque my buying list. It’s besides an inconvenience erstwhile I’m carrying thing other successful 1 manus (such arsenic a bearer bag, food, h2o bottle, etc.).”
So however bash you unfastened this thing?
- If you don’t usage 2 hands, you can’t truly unfastened it successful a harmless manner.
- We’ve seen immoderate radical wedge a digit into the spread and flick unfastened the telephone similar a knife.
- But we wouldn’t counsel doing this.
- Samsung advises against putting excessively overmuch unit connected the folding screen, arsenic your nail could harm the display.
- You could besides usage your thorax oregon abdomen to mildly nudge unfastened the screen, but this is not astatine each graceful oregon dignified.
- All successful all, if you don’t person 2 hands astatine the ready, hole to larn however to unfastened this telephone and interest astir damaging it.
- Of course, it doesn’t person to beryllium similar this.
Please hole this, Samsung
- We judge successful the “flip telephone is simply a compact phone” adage, but Samsung needs to hole this immense annoyance.
- For one, the institution could see reducing the fig of magnets holding the phone’s 2 halves together. Samsung could besides alteration the magnets’ strength, making the telephone easier to propulsion apart.
- But this could brew its ain imaginable acceptable of problems.
- Alternatively, a small notch connected the bottommost of the telephone could amended digit grip erstwhile utilizing 1 manus to unfastened it.
- Then determination is the solution phones successful the 1990s utilized — a spring-loaded hinge.
- Notably, Motorola has utilized this plan arsenic precocious arsenic the Motorola Razr 5G, but for Samsung, this plan would mean nary Flex Mode.
- Whatever solution Samsung decides to use, it’ll apt cement the Galaxy Z Flip’s spot arsenic 1 of the champion alternate compact phones around.
Monday Meme
We’re heavy into spooky season, but not everything should beryllium astir staying up precocious and gobbling candy. Keeping progressive during the second fractional of the twelvemonth is incredibly important for your wellness and wellness.
Don’t conscionable instrumentality it from us…
Thankfully, you don’t request a Peloton to enactment fit.
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- Don’t fancy moving astir the block? Enjoy a home workout with these apps.
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Between candy depletion and getting your bosom complaint up, beryllium definite to browse our Halloween content, from the best fearfulness movies to the best fearfulness shows.
Until adjacent time,
Andy Walker, Editor.