While the selfie camera captured decent images, I preferred using the cover screen to take selfies with the main lens.
PERFORMANCE
The Samsung Z fold 7 uses the Snapdragon’s flagship 8 Elite chipset with a 120Hz screen.
In daily use, it feels fast and responsive. Samsung’s One UI 8 OS handles editing images, watching videos, scrolling socials and browsing smoothly – even with seven or eight apps open in the background. Gaming performance is good. Call of Duty played smoothly, even at high graphics settings.
BATTERY PERFORMANCE
For my use case, the Galaxy Z Fold 7’s 4,400mAh lithium-ion battery offered an entire day of use. After one day of use, I had about 15 per cent of battery life remaining. This included about five hours of surfing, sketching, editing photos, streaming music and watching videos.
Still, that is some way behind some of its rivals from China who’ve opted for silicon-carbon batteries that offer greater energy density. For instance, the Oppo Find N5 features a 5,600 mAh battery, the Honor Magic V5 has a 5,820 mAh battery and the recently announced Vivo X Fold5 packs a 6,000 mAh battery.
For now, Samsung, Apple and Google are sticking with tried and tested lithium-ion batteries, focusing instead on improving energy efficiency.
The Galaxy Z Fold 7 supports 25W wired and 15W wireless charging – extremely slow by today’s standards. It took about 1 hour and 24 minutes to be fully charged from 0 per cent.
