Hey, wait a minute, that Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 is definitely simply two iPhones in a trench coat!
That’s the thought behind the latest update to the Try Galaxy internet app, which, when working on two iPhones, affords a Samsung One UI demonstration unfold throughout each screens. Samsung says it lets iOS customers check out the foldable’s advantages, like watching content material on an “immersive” display, or pattern productiveness options like dragging and dropping throughout each screens due to its multitasking talents — one thing Samsung does well and that even the iPad could use work on.
To make it occur, you simply must visit the website or scan a QR code on two iPhones, add the online app to your homescreen, after which tape them collectively (the tape is my very own advice) to begin folding to your coronary heart’s content material (via 9to5Google).
Samsung says the app additionally lets customers study Galaxy Z Flip and Z Fold telephones by its “FlexCam expertise,” displaying them how having the ability to fold their cellphone can seize “memorable moments in a wide range of inventive angles” or view selfies utilizing the duvet display discovered on the Z Flip — one thing the iPhone can’t simulate, since, you understand, it doesn’t fold and doesn’t have a display on the again.
I went forward and tried it out. Did it persuade me to modify to the Z Fold 5? Effectively, no… it’s a guided expertise that doesn’t provide you with a lot freedom, and it saved telling me I had an unstable community earlier than crashing. Possibly I do, or perhaps it’s as a result of one of many telephones is working the iOS 17 beta.
However displaying off the advantages of a folding cellphone with an unbroken display throughout the entire thing by placing it on two separate telephones and simply hoping they’ll play good is a goofy thought. Particularly if you have already got an iPad, as a result of it actually finally ends up being extra of a Samsung pill demo, and never a really compelling one at that. Ultimately, it simply jogs my memory of early, gimmicky app retailer apps greater than something.
If you wish to attempt it in your iPhones, right here’s the QR code. Have at it.
Replace Monday August 21, 2023, 3:25PM ET: Added particulars concerning the precise expertise after making an attempt it out.