In the last couple of years, it seems that we've been fast approaching peak smartphone design and innovation. Displays are as good as they need to get, cameras can show you things you can't see with your naked eyes in the dark, and performance has reached a point where phones can power external displays and have more RAM than most average laptops. So the big question is, where do we go from here?

Last year, we caught a glimpse of what the future could hold for smartphone innovation with foldable phones. It was a shaky start, and of the small handful of companies that announced their products, only two have managed to actually begin shipping them to consumers – and that's not without their own respective hurdles.

Last year's Samsung Galaxy Fold[1] is a powerhouse of a smartphone but we feel that its design isn't the most ergonomic and its price tag is not for the faint of heart. Motorola is trying to sell you nostalgia with the Razr 2019[2], but other than its folding screen, it's a pretty average-spec'd mid-range phone.

Yesterday, we had a chance to try out the heavily leaked Samsung Galaxy Z Flip[3] at its Unpacked event in San Francisco, and for the first time, we believe that this can and should be the way forward for foldable devices.

First, let's get some things out of the way before we dive into the experience of using it. The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip is the company's second foldable phone, priced lower than the Galaxy Fold and the Moto Razr 2019, at $1,380 (roughly Rs. 98,400). It has a 7nm octa-core processor, 8GB of RAM, 256GB of storage, wireless charging, and eSIM support. Samsung has...

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