I’ve been reviewing Android phones long enough to remember when they were fun. Every few months, one OEM or another would try something wacky that ended up falling flat — there were phones with game controllers (Xperia Play), projectors (Galaxy Beam), modular chins (LG G5), and all kinds of weird curves (who could forget the LG G Flex). But through trial and error, the smartphone formula has been refined to the point that most modern devices are nearly identical flat glass slabs. Some are faster or have better cameras, but the fundamentals of mobile computing don’t change when everything is so similar.
Foldables arrived just when traditional phones were getting oppressively boring, and they certainly jazzed things up, but they weren’t very good products. The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6, however, is very good. And unlike in past years, I don’t feel the need to qualify that statement.