New Delhi: It must be an impossible task to balance. The expectations from customers weighed against continuity with what works as it should. That has been the conundrum facing Samsung over the years since it attained a benchmark lead with foldable Android smartphones a few years ago.
They have all the right to take it easy if they wish to, for they attained this finesse much before any other Android phone maker even got to the start line. Apple hasn’t even gotten on that mission. If you are complaining that the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold6 is far too similar to the Galaxy Z Fold5, at least on the spec sheet, you’re only considering half of the story.
You’d of course look at the price tag, and there, it’s a significant step up. Rs.1,64,999 now gets you the 12GB RAM and 256GB storage config.
Last year, the same outlay would get 512GB of storage. Now that’s Rs.1,76,999 while the 1TB storage spec crosses the Rs.
2,00,000 mark and sports an exact price tag of Rs.2,00,999. With the Galaxy Z Fold5, this storage spec would demand you part with Rs.
1,84,999 instead. That does raise the question about how we define a generational upgrade over incremental updates. Is this mix of the new and the continuity, enough to push users to upgrade, and to stave off competition from the very capable (and don’t forget the Zeiss camera optimisations) Vivo X Fold3 Pro and the value for the buck OnePlus Open? Also read: For Vivo X Fold3 Pro, three generations of refinements define characteristics.