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Two-minute review Is it possible that we've reached the age of refinement in the foldable phone story? With the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4, Samsung apparently hasn’t tried to reinvent the genre or radically alter the foldable’s display and design. Instead, this latest Galaxy Z device brings a number of small-but-welcome design enhancements over the Z Fold 3, plus a new processor and upgraded camera array.  All of this adds up to a handset that’s lighter and thinner than its predecessor, and generally even better equipped to serve as a traditional, 6.2-inch Android 12 handset that just happens to pack an expansive, flexible 7.6-inch display inside.   This is a do-everything device that presents few compromises. Yes, the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4 is, when folded, noticeably thicker than your average smartphone (it’s nearly double the thickness of the Samsung Galaxy S22), and the cover screen is a little narrower than the displays on most Android handsets, but these are small pric...

It's been three years since the first Samsung Galaxy Fold stumbled out into the market. While the foldable device was exciting – even groundbreaking – it was also deeply flawed. Samsung quickly found its feet with the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2 , which introduced a larger screen on the outside and a bigger folding screen covered by non-peelable ultra-thin glass (early reviewers of the original Fold mistook the outer layer for a protective film and peeled it off, essentially destroying the device), and a re-engineered hinge that literally sweeps out debris to keep the complex mechanism working smoothly. Last year's Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 further enhanced the hinge, upgraded materials to enhance durability, and adopted the Galaxy S21's phone setup. The Galaxy Z Fold 4 offers mostly subtle but crucial refinements of the design, folding and cover screens, cameras and, yes, that now iconic hinge. The result is a Galaxy device that's looking more and more like any other ...