I won't say I'm the most seasoned user but here's my take. I got a z fold 3 "apparently exchanged for new then sold" last year in July ish for around 700. it honestly looked v pristine which is what u would care about for drop induced damage. just before z fold 5 was launched and that was really quite a good deal.
I loved the phone but I imagine the chances of having durability issues is not low for sure. earlier this year my sound when open stopped working - this is bcos of the ribbon cable. cost about 280 or smth to fix at mistermobile. I think repair options still probably increase (not sure for google but samsung definitely). even them only 4 branches of mistermobile have the expertise to fix. I had to drive to paya lebar to fix (i'm in toa payoh) and they take like 4 hours to fix. so u go when they open at 11am I cant say for sure ull get it back the same day esp if u don't have the time. I left then collected next day
after they fixed it the s pen could no longer work on one side of the screen which they kinda disclaimer and they can't fix even if they want to bcos samsung doesn't sell them spare parts for the inner screen that can use s pen (only the grade b that cant). they offered to switch to another phone and im like wdv let me try this. within a month that one cannot open fully. luckily they fix it for free this time.
imagine going thru all that headache. i wanted to go back to slab. but for work this is really dam useful. emails. pdfs. multitasking. coming from a iphone xr (and iphone since 3gs) to the Fold 3 I really went down the rabbit hole of android phones. luckily I had my xr as a spare during repair otherwise think I will be dam sian.
fast forward I was considering btw z fold 6 and OPO. didn't expect google to launch in sg
my priorities were
1) big cover screen so I can open it less due to aforementioned issues (judge me how u want). z fold 3 is 54mm width cover screen (screen not device). fold 5 is 57mm. fold 6 is 60mm. OPO ,p9pf and iphone 15 is 6m. i was really leaning OPO tbh
2) camera. the camera on samsung is not great. overexposed. low light is not great. moving objects is not good. I have 2 kids 6m and 3yo so like I want a camera for that. OPO doesn't have motion photos. and not sure how it works for moving photos so pixel is technically the best
3) weight is another thing. I have the fold3 which is like 273g. with my case which I kiasu big one but phone still kaput makes it like 330g lol. compared to ur iphone 15 pro max is 221g. iphone 15 pro is 187g. the non pros are lighter. z fold5 is 253g. similar to p9pf at 257. z fold6 is 239 same as OPO black.
4) durability. I don't think u can judge any of the phones until ppl have used it for at least a year. so have to take durability issues with a grain of salt. important thing is the support. samsung I think is decent la. opo is relatively untested but don't see that many ppl complain in sg. reddit have. google will also have its problems but now got warranty.
end of the day if u want simple then don't go foldable but if u think will love the form factor for those reasons. mainly reading/working/multitasking and gaming (which I dont) u can consider. but weight and durability will come to mind for sure. also pls keep a spare phone to use in conjunction. I use iphone for my banking apps haha cos I hum even tho I think I can navigate scams and im gonna also use the z fold 3 as another spare (kept mostly open)
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