The new Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Z Flip 6 are here, but you’re not alone if you feel like you’ve seen these devices before. While Samsung has tinkered around the edges mostly for the better, the supposedly cutting-edge foldables formula is familiar if we’re kind and stale if we’re not. If I’m honest, the Galaxy Ring and other wearables are a bit more interesting.
Galaxy AI wheezes new life into the series, but while these features felt novel with the Galaxy S24, we’re quickly approaching the AI saturation point if we haven’t passed it already. Worse, many of the newer AI features Samsung talked about aren’t even available at launch. They’ll arrive in an update at some undisclosed point before the end of 2024 (if all goes according to plan). In a bid to have something interesting to show off, Samsung has desperately resorted to slinging out promises that could run late or may never materialize. That feels like a pretty damning indictment of the whole launch.